A hilly terrain composed of limestone, loam, and clay, characterised by a salubrious climate, refreshed by ascensional maritime breezes from Liguria. Airy and cool during the summer, harsh and dry in winter, lightly caressed by fog from the Po valley. Legitimate and only son of the great river and of Pavia, city of art and history, which together have infused in the land and in the people, cordial and hard-working, simple and genuine, the qualities of pride and culture, fertility and passion. It is the Oltrepo Pavese, when wines have been cultivated for more than three thousand years - "...the abundance of wine is evidenced by the casks, made of wood and larger than the homes" wrote Strabo (60 B.C.-20 A.D.). In the Middle Ages, probably when the castles were built, the quality of the wine in the zone began to increase.

   The Oltrepo Pavese (antique Piedmont), a sea of vineyards furrowed by waterways, by towns of ancient origins and steeples which emerge from the hills in a splendid repetition and succession of colors, is comparable for its geographic configuration only to Champagne and to Burgundy. "Halfway between the North Pole and the Equator" as the signs along the roads up through the hills say; it is in fact on the 45th parallel, and here is where the longest harvest in Italy takes place: first the Pinot noir for sparkling wine is gathered, then the reds like Barbera and Croatina (the variety of the greatly appreciated Bonarda). In particular, The Pinot noir plays a prime role, used in sparkling wines and in the production of fine red wines for aging.