Villa Mosconi Bertani is one of the places of delight for lovers of good wine.
Built around the 18th century, it holds within its walls the genesis of a pearl of enology: the Amarone Classico of Valpolicella.
A temple dedicated to the culture of good wine, the complex includes a monumental cellar. A 22-hectare orchard, also called Villa Novare, from the name of the locality to which it belongs.
Born from the brains and the will of the Fattori family, it was then sold to the Mosconis in 1769, it enjoys an almost unique landscape thanks to the important absence of buildings in the immediate vicinity.
The Villa responds to the dictatorships of the classic Venetian Villa of Palladian style, a perfect interlocking of prestigious nobility and practical agricultural life, with the barchesse that extend in an embrace along the central body and its stately celebratory tympanum, modified by the Trezza family, which bears the family crest. Inside, marvelous frescoes and large rooms which, after a period of neglect in the early 1900s, have regained their ancient splendor.
The cultivation of vineyards in the area is very old, in fact there is evidence as early as the year 1000. However, we owe the first planting of the winery to the Fattori in 1679.
It is said that the birth of the classic Amarone della Valpolicella is to be attributed to a distracted cellarman, guilty of having let the precious Recioto ferment in the barrels for longer than it should, but the error was so favorable that we can still enjoy it today during one of the numerous tastings at the Villa.
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