Monzio Compagnoni

Monzio Companioni:
The farm was officially opened in late 1987 from an idea of my father's Adriano, who decided to invest in the hills of Dine In, the birthplace of my mother.
Here, in the vicinity of our properties, rose Emnetta's hill where, after several acquisitions, we came to add up an area of about 66,000 square meters, 33,000 of which are vineyards.

My father and I, with the valuable advice of Alberto Musatti, Franciacorta enologist early in his independently career, we decided just to redo all the vineyards with its accommodation of the land in order to get the grapes and, subsequently, quality wines.

In 1987 agreement was reached on clones, rootstock and planting density of these new vineyards and start the building of the cellar.

The concepts of modernity and the use of technology, ideas, constant work of my father, the care and passion that drove me in those years, made sure we realized that a modern all points of view of both architectural and wine .
The cellar was ready for harvest 1989: year of foundation of the wine.
That year we produced about 20,000 bottles of wine with the first issue of Novello, as a result of the Colle della Luna white and red, Moscato di Scansano and the first bottling of Champagne in Spring 1990.

Now meet with the approval of fans, journalists and restaurateurs who tasters, as the great Maurizio Zanini, "first customer", Aldo Quinzani, Franco and Marco Fanzaga Pezzotta.

So it was that Francesco Arrigoni, author of the first article on the Colle della Luna White 1989, and Elio Ghisalberti us within the Italian wine guide Gambero Rosso in 1991.
In that year we began to work from May 1, with the Enoteca Nederland Bonants Maarten, all the export market, with Valentino Rossi at the time of the talented sommelier Taverna Colleoni, Bergamo and province.

Since then, the reputation and the quality of our wines are always grown, year after year, with the integration of other products that still characterize our line.
After the first vineyards planted in the spring of 1992, having acquired an area of 173,000 square meters in area Ca'd'Argon, 43,000 meters of vineyards and other places in Loreto, owned Tomasini, 6600 meters of vineyard Moscato di Scanzo.

In July 1994 it was separated from the management of the vineyards and the winery owned by the property: so I, with the participation of my brother John, took over running the company under the name and corporate structure today.

In 1995 the opportunity presented itself, thanks to Aldo Foresti, a great friend and inspiration in 'wine business, to take over the running of the farm Baron Monti della Corte, owned by heirs de Marchant et d'Ansembourg, a Court of Nigoline Franca renting both structures of the cellar, the vineyards thirty years.
On 10 September 1995 with the start of the harvest, however good, he left the challenge in Franciacorta.

The following February 14, 1996 relinquished ownership of the Colle dell'Emnetta and in that same year, after the grapes harvested in the rest of the property and have them made into wine, thanks to the intervention of friends Zadra, at Tenuta Castello di Grumello, taken rent 30,000 square meters of land in Scanzorosciate el 'current winery, owned by Mrs. Dezza-Sketch, which, after renovation, was ready for the 1997 vintage and the vineyard for the 2000 vintage.

Meanwhile the line was created for new products Franciacorta the Ronco Silk white and red and Monzio Compagnoni Franciacorta Brut, Extra Brut and Saten.
He was also increased with the 1997 vintage crus of the series have since been identified as Valcalepio: Rosso di Luna and Don Quijote, and Franciacorta: White Silk (former White Moon) and Red Black .

In 1999 he was also alienated the property of Ca'd'Argon and remained under the direct management to dine only vineyard of Loreto, crus of Don Quijote.
Since then the new property Morandi gives us the grapes are vinified at the winery.

Also in that year began working with Massimo Gibellini and Quality Club to expand its business activities to the whole peninsula.

In 2000, my brother John, took over in the corporate Aldo Foresti and we proceeded to the acquisition of new headquarters in the town of Adro, in places Oneto.
Here within the properties of the family de Marchant et d'Ansembourg and vineyards, in which we currently run, the farm will be restored and thus bring together all the vineyards around the core business Franciacorta in a single center.