Manaresi

Today, the company is also the venue of the Paolo Manaresi Artistic Association, whose granddaughter Donatella Agostoni, owner of the company, aims to disseminate and enhance her grandfather’s work without forgetting the underlying cultural objective of promoting every form of artistic expression.

In 1986, the Agostini Manaresi family (Maria Teresa Manaresi, her husband Egidio Agostoni and her children, Daniele and Donatella) found a rural house on the Bella Vista hill in Zola Predosa and fell in love with it. They decided to purchase it and moved from Bologna to start a new life. They renovated the farm from 1988 to 1992, planting several new vineyards and implementing a new agronomic approach. In 2006, Maria Teresa Manaresi and her daughter Donatella Agostoni managed to buy and control 100% of the estate. Since then, the vineyards have been carefully looked after thanks to this new management.

The farm is now run by Donatella, a qualified architect who has followed and completed many new projects on the winery and her husband Fabio Bottonelli, a professional journalist with a degree in agricultural sciences. In 2008-2009 Donatella and Fabio planted two fields with new vines, 0,7 hectares of Pignoletto and Sauvignon, after a preliminary analysis of the soil, clones, rootstocks, and technical material for new plants. The winery is now operating with brand-new state-of-the-art machinery and casks. It can now work around 500 hectoliters of wine, which is close to the vineyards’ potential (11 hectares): a small winery, using its careful techniques to produce high-quality wines.

The Manaresi winery has adapted their wine labels to Paolo Manaresi’s engraving masterpiece that in 1954 was awarded first prize at Venice “Biennale d’Arte”. The whole design concept, by young visual designer Mirit Wissotzky from Israel, was created around the world of art, and the labels emphasize the wine as a piece of art.

The soil is of a medium texture, practically clay-loam, with components from ancient floods and Appennine rock erosion. A well balanced mixture of sand, clay, marl, sandstone, with limestone veins and gravels, a mix that adds more complexity and elegance to wines. The wines are produced from proprietary grapes harvested by hand, in boxes, with a low-impact agricultural philosophy and a careful, but non-invasive, enological approach. An ‘artisanal’ but professional cellar managed directly by the owners. They produce about 50,000 bottles a year of Colli Bolognesi Pignoletto docg and other doc wines of the Colli Bolognesi (Bianco Bologna, Merlot, Barbera, Rosso Bologna based on Cabernet Sauvignon etc.)

Grapes

Wines

Red

  • “Controluce” – Colli Bolognesi DOC Bologna Rosso
  • “Flora Italica” Colli Bolognesi DOC Barbera
  • Merlot – Colli Bolognesi DOC
  • “RED” – Colli Bolognesi DOC Bologna Rosso
  • White

  • DOCG Colli Bolognesi Pignoletto Classico Superiore
  • “Duesettanta” – Colli Bolognesi DOC Bologna Bianco
  • Frizzante Wines

  • DOCG Colli Bolognesi Pignoletto
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    Around the winery, you will find a nice, green countryside, an old park with century old trees, fruit orchards, beautifully kept lawns, panoramic view points with chairs … You are simply welcome to enjoy the astonishing view, or bring your own book where you can sit and read in peace, nobody will say – “hey, time’s up!”

    The Manaresi wine estate is not only a “winery”, though. The wine estate is not only the place where wine is produced, but the place where the winegrowers like to share their lifestyle with you. Consider this estate an open house where you can meet, taste wines, chat, and learn.

    The winery can host events and art performances, both outside and inside the ancient or modern winery, they love the strong connections art-wine-landscape.

    They have set up a tasting and retail area, where you can taste and purchase the wines, after visiting. Tours are personally led by Fabio and Donatella, the winegrowers, in English.

    Taste the Wines

    Manaresi Colli Bolognesi Pignoletto Classico Superiore 2017

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