Winery Overview
While the cultivation of Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore D.O.C.G. is an ancient practice, production at Serre is a new adventure born during the Italian reconstruction period after the First World War. This is a story of immigrants, forces to leave their homeland with heavy hearts, and who as soon as they were able to obtain right resources, returned to buy land. In 1956, the families of Camillo Pederiva and Rosa Mattiola, owners of Serre, each acquired different areas of the land from the noble family Brandolini d’Adda, who, at the time, were the owners of all the land around Combai. The harsh reality was that this land had been divided for years among tenant farmers and so the majority of land was degraded and abandoned. Because of these conditions, after the martial union of Camillo and Rosa, great effort was taken to re-cultivate the earth and join all of the vineyards together. This family business has evolved and improved since management was passed to sons Luca and Marco, who continue the practice of cultivating earth in conditions similar to that of the mountains. Due to the steep hills, the vineyard workers must climb to great and difficult heights to pick grapes and maintain the vineyards. Each bottle of wine is the result of skilled manual labor which they call "courageous cultivation" of the hills of Combai.