Brothers In Wine

The castagnedi family at tenuta sant’antonio in valpolicella.

Armando, Tiziano, Paolo and Massimo Castagnedi: four brothers and a single passion that originated in their father’s vineyards at San Zeno di Colognola ai Colli, where the most famous Veronese wines are made: Amarone, Valpolicella, and Soave.

In 1989, they took the bold and far-sighted decision to buy vineyards in the Monti Garbi region of Valpolicella, near Verona, laying the foundation for what has now an internationally famous brand, the producer of excellent wines, with more than one hundred hectares of vineyards and a state-of-the-art ageing facility.

It was a real challenge. The decision to plant new vines alongside the existing vineyards and to build a new winery in the Monti Garbi area demanded courage and a keen business sense: two qualities the Castagnedi brothers do not lack.

You have to be a true viticulturist, in the purest sense of the word, rather than just a vigneron to even consider cultivating such unusual terrain. A vigneron would have dismissed the terroir on principle. The Castagnedi brothers, on the other hand, had tended and cared for vines for other vine-growing and wine-producing businesses in Tuscany, Sicily and Latium for years and realised the enormous potential of the Monti Garbi area.

Tenuta Sant’Antonio is a member of the Amarone Families Association, whose aim is to promote understanding of what “true Amarone” really is. Its basis is exactly that, a business which has always believed and invested in the importance and the value of the family.

Monti Garbi