Cantine Minini was founded in 1920 in Verolanuova, where Francesco Minini had just left the First World War as a young soldier. There was little money but the determination was all the greater to start an ambitious wine estate. This ambition was soon crushed when the Second World War broke out not much later. But even after this tragedy, he continued his life project full of good courage and renewed enthusiasm. In the early 1960s, the winery was completely rebuilt at a new location. Today it is still the headquarters of the many other locations it knows today. Those years also saw the greatest boost for the domain and collaborative projects were launched with winegrowers all over the country, representing almost all the main regions of Italy. This enabled the Minini family to offer a portfolio that was and still is representative of almost all of Italy rather than just the Veneto region. The 3rd generation, again represented by a Francesco Minini, gratefully continues to build on this today and offers a wide quality range of Italian wines at an international level. The wines are, without falling into exclusivity, of a high standard and allow us to enjoy a country like Italy without having to dig deep into our pockets.

In the eastern hills of Veneto the poor pebble soils are sandy and well-drained. The hills of Abruzzo, the foothills of the Apennines, have a hard subsoil, which contains a lot of lime in addition to clay. The vineyard in the north of Florence has a sandy soil, rich in clay and minerals with occasional shale.