About Fasoli Gino
Fasoli Gino began in 1925, when Amadio Fasoli planted his family farm at Colognola ai Colli in the lower Illasi valley, and it has stayed in the family ever since, with grandson Matteo now running the estate's 20 hectares. The house was among the area's organic pioneers and today works organically and biodynamically, with certified vegan wines, clay and limestone hillsides and the traditional short Veronese pergola in the vines. The wines carry the eastern valleys' signature: generous fruit, dried and aged with patience, always with a fresh, savory line underneath.
Prices are for take away and shipping. The wine bar serves from its own list.
The winery
About Fasoli Gino
History
The family story starts in 1925, when Amadio Fasoli began growing and vinifying his own grapes and delivered barrels by horse and cart to taverns in Verona, Vicenza and Padua. His sons Gino and Gigi carried the wines across Italy, and by the 1970s the Fasoli Gino name was established. Gino then took the wines abroad.
Gino's sons Franco and Natalino followed, and today Natalino runs the company with his son Matteo, the fourth generation.
The land and the vineyards
The home ground is the Val d'Illasi, east of Verona between Soave and Valpolicella, and the family also farms plots in the Colli Berici, the Val d'Alpone, around Lake Garda and in the Padua and lower Verona countryside. One feature puts the total at about 100 hectares, while a retailer lists 14 hectares in the Illasi valley alone.
The Fasoli vineyards have been organic since the 1980s, which was early for the area. A trade fair page dates the change to 1979, after Gino developed an allergy to chemical treatments. The family later added biodynamic methods: grass between the rows, light pruning, natural pest control and hand harvesting in several passes.
The wines
The range covers Soave, Valpolicella, Bardolino and Amarone, with the Corte del Pozzo line carrying a label with the geese that walk through the vineyards. The cellar holds an old well, which the family treats as a symbol of the estate's continuity.
Today
The company holds Equalitas certification and aims for zero emissions. Its electricity comes from solar panels and certified hydroelectric supply. In the Val d'Illasi the family runs Tenuta Le Cave, a small hotel whose old grape drying cellar is now a tasting room, and a 16th century hunting lodge, La Casetta.
- Founded
- 1925 (first wines by Amadio Fasoli)
- Vineyards (hectares)
- About 100 across several areas; 14 in the Illasi valley
- Owners
- Fasoli family, fourth generation