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exploring taste – Spring/Summer 2016 heritage – 80 years of Santa Margherita

The first recipe of the white vinified Pinot Grigio

La Gazzetta dello Sport celebrates
the victory of Giannino Marzotto at the
Mille Miglia

Giannino and Gaetano Marzotto
Prosecco Superiore Valdobbiadene DOCG

80 YEARS OF SANTA MARGHERITA:

A WINE MAKING MOSAIC

It all began in 1935 with Gaetano Marzotto.
This story dates back more than 80 years and it is about love for the territory and a constant drive for innovation.
Here are the main events and people that have marked Santa Margherita as an international success.

1935 Gaetano Marzotto leads the company’s 1950 In the Fifties, the four Marzotto brothers – 1952 This is the year that sees the first sparkling 1960 Santa Margherita’s technical team develops a
vinification of Prosecco Valdobbiadene, today
process from which white wine can be obtained
transformation from an agricultural to an agro-
Vittorio, Umberto, Giannino e Paolo – are
industrial business venture: the Portogruaro renamed Conti Correnti (the Racing Counts) Prosecco Superiore di Valdobbiadene DOCG. using the Pinot Grigio grapes of Trentino Alto
estate becomes a laboratory where his dream by the media: four amateur pilots who became Santa Margherita’s special relationship with Adige, with their typical rust-colored skins. Thus,
of modernizing Italian agriculture takes shape. legends of European car racing. Giannino Prosecco began quite sometime before it a new generation of high-quality wines is born,
Gaetano lays the foundations of what will Marzotto is the winner of two editions of the achieved the great popularity it enjoys today. thanks to continuous investments in oenological
become a true ‘wine mosaic’. The tesserae that Mille Miglia, in 1950 and 1953. In 1954 it is In the space of a few decades the company has research and advanced manufacturing
would compose this mosaic are Italy’s best wine Vittorio who conquers the podium with a Ferrari succeed in transforming a local product into a technologies. Wines that express all the freshness
making districts: Eastern Veneto, the Adige Sport 500 Mondial. Aside from the Mille Miglia truly global phenomenon. of the fruit and are incredibly versatile when it
valley, the hills of Valdobbiadene and Refrontolo, the Marzotto brothers competed with varying comes to food pairing. Pinot Grigio changed
the Alto Adige area, Ca’ del Bosco’s Franciacorta, success in celebrated races such as Le Mans, the the rules of the game becoming one of Italy’s
the Chianti Classico estates of Lamole di Lamole Dolomites Gold Cup Race, the Giro di Sicilia, and prized exports and conquering important
and Vistarenni, the Tuscan Maremma estate won the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix. foreign markets such as the United States.
of Tenuta Sassoregale and Sicily’s Terrelíade.

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