In early post-war Italy, the country was semi-destroyed and agriculture was undergoing severe crisis. Viticulture in Lazio had been particularly stricken, so much so that most vineyards had to be replanted. All this was exacerbated by the numerous difficulties that impacted wine production at the wineries existing at the time, where most of the technological equipment and masonry works had been wrecked.
The wine-growers in Marino, in the province of Rome, succeeded with great sacrifice in replanting the vineyards and restarting production, but not in reorganising wine-making and marketing.
This is when the founding members of the winery came into play. Forty-one winegrowers driven by trust and hope in a better future despite the disastrous consequences of World War II, refused to give up and, on the rubble of destruction, embarked on a great adventure that continues to this day, following a path of growth and social impulse in our community: the Gotto d’oro cooperative.
The members are the lifeblood of the winery: the alpha and omega of the 75-year-long history of the “wine of Rome”. Over this time, the grapes brought to the winery by each member became the foundations of the two plants in Marino and Frascati, where employees transform 70 thousand tons of grapes into 5 million bottles of Gotto d’oro wines, sold on an increasingly international market, without losing the local and basic dimension of the “social winery”.
