Montecchia di Crosara, situated in the heart of the Alpone Valley, is an important but still graceful wine village and truly deserves the status of "Città del Vino" (the City of Wine). The surrounding vineyards dotted with cherry and olive trees, and lined with copses, convey the spontaneous naturalness of a deferentially respected wine-growing land.

About 15 km northwards lies Bolca, a place whose wonderful museum houses locally discovered fossils which are testament to this charming area's millions of years of history.

The vines - there are about 3000 vines per hectare - are trained over the traditional "pergola veronese", a particular way of training vines along a flat roof pergola. This way of training the vines and the cherry trees planted amongst them is very reminiscent of the Etruscan wine culture, where the vines were simply trained over trees.

The Garganega grape, in Sicily known as "Grecanico", is one of Italy's most important white grape varieties. Its classic wine-growing region is located in Veneto, in the province of Verona, in the undulating foothills of the Monti Lessini, in the Illasi and Alpone valley.
This grape variety was already known in the 12th century and its origins can be traced back to the Rhaetian grape.

With pergola cultivation, the work on vines can only be done by hand. The soil is covered with grass as an overhead sprinkling system is only seldom available. This form of growing as well as the presence of numerous cherry trees do not permit the use of machinery, as is usual in totally mechanized winegrowing. Therefore, the grapes have to be picked by hand.