Agostino Vicentini

San Zeno, Veneto

Vicentini is a small family business where Agostino works with his wife, Teressa, and their children Emanuele and Francesca.  The family cellar and home is in San Zeno, an unassuming village at the mouth of the Val d‘Illarsi which has the dubious honour of nestling inside both the Soave and Valpolicella DOCs, but is also outside of their respective Classico zones.  This has done little to deter the family from making some of the region’s most respected wines. 

Vicentini have enough vineyard to make up to 90,000 bottles a year and they have two very distinct terroirs, at two very different altitudes.  The first terroir is on volcanic rock within the Valle dei Ciliegi (valley of cherries), this land is largely responsible for their Valpolicella and Soave Casale.  The second is on limestone in the commune of Terrelunghe, where Garganega and Trebbiano di Soave are grown.