The lady in the photo is the face of La Basia. She is my mother Elena.

Originally from a Milanese family, a city where she has lived in total a week. She graduadated in agriculture a few years ago.

From there two stories: The first half is the story of a family that grows and grows: five children ( two girls and three boys), always with her husband Antonio. The second half of the story that is connected to the hills of Garda where they have started to produce their wine with the passion and curiosity to discover the taste and history of a fascinating land rich with flavours. Within this land is full of their roots and with the years even this story grows and follows new roads and new characters. Today it is a little world made of wines and other products ( oil, grappa, honey and polenta) open to the public, animated with the presence of friends that have chosen  La Basia for their passion of horses.

 This will not be easy to introduce ourselves to everybody… We will need time. But a little at a time there will be space for everyone….

 see you soon!

These last few days at the Basia have been intense. A horse riding centre (our riding school)the strings were pulled on the day of the holiday of which last sunday we said goodbye to spring, The jumping contest which had a large number of participants and enthusiastic supporters (photos will be on our website soon), The day ended with victors and winners unfailingly celebrating together.

 In the vineyard our Arturo who we will soon find the occasion to present to you finished the work of binding the grapevines under the hot sun the last few weeks. It was risky work but he managed to get himself a nice tan.

 My mother Elena and I are writing to you to tell you that we returned from Germany a few days ago where for the first time we went to present our wines to the large exhibition at ProWein in Dusseldorf, proud ambassadors of our wine in a foreign land!

 In short: a lot is happening! Try and get us!

See you soon on agrycult.com

After a few days here at the Basia we have bottled the product the Chiaretto The drunken wife 2009.  The bottleing which took place in an associated business is a special occasion: In fact in one day all the work spent in the vineyard and dedicated care in the wine cellar came to an end.

We would like to tell you about a special day. We have turned ourselves into reporters for Agrycult and we have tried to describe what happened in a video that is to say the air that is breathed from the big plant that carrys out all the operations of packing the bottles. It is in the square in front of the cellar where at the end of the day the doors are closed ( infact at the Basia like in many other small businesses this work is carried out by a specialised company but we are kitted out with all the right industrialised machinery used to package the goods.

The result is under your watchful eyes! we hope you will appreciate this small part of a story of a wine that we like to remember, a wine born from a combination of many factors: from the passion of real people, from the right care of the earth, from the tastes of a tradition which have transmitted us from quality to a fruit but also from the technology that today helps us value and conserve these prescious resourses up until the moment of uncorking a bottle on our table.

At this point even we 2.0 have to return to old habits: if you would like to get to know this wine, this chiaretto there isn’t anything else to do but try it! and it’s for this reason the net is still not set up ….. Come and see us!

See you soon!

For all my wines it’s the same story: no yeast, no chemicals, no additives, except that pieces of sulphite which is essential for the survival in the world of wine and in order to prevent the passage into the underworld of the vinegar.

Even with the sulfur, however, I use it far below the limits of organic wines (which of course use it).

The total number of bottles produced in a year is below ten thousand.

Soon, the second episode of  ”la campagnola bella e l’inseparabile Zazzà” (the beautiful countrywoman and the inseparable Zazzà”

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