La Formica Amarone della Valpolicella 375ml, 2008

BONUZZI FAMILY HISTORY

Always viticulture marks Bonuzzi’s family history. In 1893 Luigi Bonuzzi built, in a little glade over the hills, a votive yard shrine dedicated to Saint Vincenzo Ferreri to protect the vineyards below from hail. La Formica’s estate consists in more than 36 hectares, about 27 of which in wine grapes plants. It’s located in Illasi Valley in the eastern side of the Valpolicella Designation Origin. The location’s altitude varies from 240m to 380m over the sea level.

COMPANY PHILOSOPHY

On a cold, frosty day the ants began dragging out some of the grain they had stored during the summer and began drying it. A grasshopper, half-dead with hunger, came by and asked for a morsel to save his life.“What did you do this past summer?” responded the ants. “Oh”, said the grasshopper, “I kept myself busy by singing all day long an all night too.”“When then,” remarked the ants, as they laughed and shut their storehouse, “ since you kept yourself busy by singing all summer, you can do the same by dancing all winter.”

It is wise to worry about tomorrow, today.