http://www.cantinaaltapadovana.it – The staff mission of Cantina Alta Padovana is to devote to whom loves to find again the signs of a tradition in continuous evolution, confirmed by dozens of affectionate clients that daily frequent the shop.
The zones on which the vineyards of Cantina Alta Padovana rise have reached the maximum expansion in the second postwar period; the numerous pieces of ground, for social-economic matters, have been vinified jointly bringing a high technical contribution thanks to the availability of capitals for the refinement and the bottling of the wine.
At that age the wine was preserved in cement tanks and barrels rigorously of wood.
The zone finds its limits to west from the Brenta river, to south from the city of Padua, to east from the state road Padua-Treviso and to north from the provincial road that from Camposampiero brings to S. Maria di Sala.
A territory of notable dimensions that contains in itself well thirteen Communes. This area primarily produces red wines as in the past centuries Venice asked for enormous quantity of it, both for internal use really and for the commerce in the whole Mediterranean Basin.
For over half century it is tradition to contribute to Cantina Alta Padovana practically the whole viticultural production inclusive among the Brenta river and the city of St. Anthony. In 1996 the cooperative has completed the new wine cellar endowed with modern enological equipments and highly qualified personal. In 2004 with a new constitutive act, the Cantina Sociale di Campodarsego turns into Cantina Alta Padovana. A name that includes the real origin area of the grapes brought for vinification.
The whole building is ten meters high and it develops in an only span, in fact there are no inside pillars. The shed is sustained by 275 poles of 6 to 12 meters to unload to earth the weight of the gigantic siloses in the maximum safety without staticity problems. The control of processes (from planting, to breeding ways, to verifications during maturation, to the harvest moment), the specialization courses of vine-growing held in Cantina for its own associates, allows the Cantina Alta Padovana to confirm year after year the Quality System ISO 9001 and Environmental ISO 14001 Certifications for musts production.
The philosophy of Cantina Alta Padovana is that to bring on tables a pleasant wine of organoleptic elegant qualities and rich of added values as environment respect in wine-growing and production phases. The wine production chain starts directly in the rows with modern and efficient techniques of wine-growing, making grapevine thriving and easily monitorable in the whole phase of the development up to the vintage. This last one in the territory of Cantina Alta Padovana is generally carried out by hand, giving therefore the last manual contribution to wine production.
It’s important to note that the whole state of fermentation is constantly monitored by sophisticated analysis of control to ensure to the consumer optimal organoleptic characteristics of wine.
Passed last controls the wine is filtered by a plant called “tangential filter” that ensures the absence of impurities also of small dimensions and the stability, hence it moves to bottling phase, where in automatized way wine is manufactured in bottles that are corked, sealed, labelled and crammed into boxes or cartons to be sent to commercial sector.
Wine produced by Cantina Alta Padovana can be found in the Wine Shop, available loose or in bottle.
Here various qualities of wines are found, both internally produced or coming from neighboring doc areas from other regions.
Cantina Alta Padovana celebrated its 50th harvest with the birth of DOC Riviera del Brenta and in 2005 were presented to the market the first bottles with success.
The district of this DOC that means Denominazione di Origine Controllata (Controlled Designation of Origin) involves the wine-growing areas of the Brenta River basin from NORTH-EAST of Padua to the countries of Venice Municipality. The wineries who are part are: Cantina Alta Padovana and three wineries of Venice Province. The environment from which it takes origin the DOC Riviera del Brenta is rich of traditions and wine culture by now millenary tied up to the ancient time with the Roman Empire before, and with the Venetian Republic then, up to the actual expressions.