Santa Sofia

San Pietro in Cariano · Verona (VR)

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Established

1811

Owned by the Begnoni family

Yearly production

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Location

San Pietro in Cariano

Verona (VR) · Veneto

Vineyard area

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Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Appellations

Amarone della Valpolicella DOCGValpolicella DOC

History

Santa Sofia, founded in 1811, is one of the oldest wine estates in the Veneto, in the Pedemonte hamlet of San Pietro in Cariano in the heart of the Valpolicella Classica.

Its cellars occupy the Renaissance Villa Sarego (Villa Santa Sofia), designed by Andrea Palladio around 1560 and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Under the Begnoni family, owners of the estate, an intensive collaboration with selected local growers begun in the early 1960s underpins its Amarone, Recioto and Valpolicella, with the Amarone 'Gioè' Riserva aged in the sixteenth-century cellars beneath the villa.

Wines

Illustrative selection

Amarone della Valpolicella Gioè Riserva

Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG · Corvina, Rondinella

The flagship, aged beneath the Palladian villa

Valpolicella Classico Superiore

Valpolicella DOC · Corvina, Rondinella

From the Valpolicella Classica hillsides

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