Suavia Azienda Agricola

In 1982 Giovanni Tessari and his wife Rosetta, aware of their land's great potential for producing high-quality wines, decided to stop taking their grapes to the local cooperative winery in order to produce their own wine. They felt a strong bond with the area's tradition and culture, so they decided to call the farm itself like the ancient town of Soave, namely Suavia.

  • Soave - Veneto, Northeast Italy - Italy

For generations the life of the Tessari family has been dedicated to the cultivation of the vine in the Soave area, the oldest white wine production area in Italy. Since 1887 the family has owned vineyards at the very heart of the Soave Classica area. This is a restricted area with special soil, climatic and morphological conditions centred around the small village of Fittà. The Suavia wine farm is located in Fittà, in the municipality of Soave, at 296 metres above sea level.

Suavia's modern and efficient winery was designed to produce only white wines using the best technology available, in order to obtain the very best from the region's native grapes. There were two crucial points to the winery design: the first was to develop a structure capable of making the best possible use of gravity to reduce the movement of must and wine to a minimum, and the second was to create an architectural style that would blend seamlessly in with the surrounding wine producing landscape.

The farm's twelve hectares of vineyards are located in the centre of the Soave Classica area. To be more precise, they belong to two particular microzones with unique and unmistakeable characteristics, those of Fittà and Castellaro.

The essential characteristics common to all the farm's vineyards are the following:

  • ovlcanic soil rich in trace elements;
  • a hilly microclimate that is cooler and that of Soave;
  • high altitude (at no point lower than 250 metres asl);
  • perfect slope aspect;
  • old vines (average 35 years); and 
  • native grape varieties.

When managing the vineyards, special attention is paid to three factors:

  • plant balance;
  • respect for the environment and landscape; and
  • relationship between the variety of vine and territory.

Wines available from Suavia Azienda Agricola

Massi Fitti Trebiano di Soave 2009

MASSI FITTI is a wine made from authentic Trebbiano di Soave grapes, a vine that has been grown for centuries on the Fittà hills. A small village in the hills here Suavia is based, the name Fittà comes from the Latin Fictus (inserted) and refers to the many basalt columnar masses found naturally side by side, inserted into the terrain. These large masses are evidence of the ancient oceans and underwater volcanoes that shaped these hills and made them fertile for the cultivation of vines. There were in fact caused by the cooling of lava in the sea, giving them their typical tall hexagonal pillar shape, one beside the other.
The hands of our people have then modelled these rocks to grow their vines and also to build their homes in the village. MASSI FITTI is a tribute to this land that has preserved in its volcanic heart the roots of the ancient vine Trebbiano di Soave, today recuperated and interpreted as a monovarietal in this wine.

This project entailed multiplication of the most interesting old vines to create the first experimental field in 2006. Comparison of the selected plants then led, in 2008, to a new vineyard solely for Trebbiano di Soave. The first year of this wine saw grapes mainly from the old vines used with a lower percentage of grapes from the new vines.

Bright golden straw colour, with aroma of hawthorn, acacia, apricot and wonderful mineral notes. Fresh, tasty, with good acidity and pleasant softness.

Monte Carbonare Soave Classico 2009

Colour: straw yellow with considerable intensity and brilliant highlights.
Nose: fragrant and facet with nice notes of orange and grapefruit together with important mineral notes thanks to the volcanic soil.
Palate: juicy and savoury with a very good acidity which gives freshness and liveliness. An almond dry final taste typical of the indigenous Garganega grape.

Le Rive Soave Classico 2007

Colour: golden yellow with green highlights.
Nose: beautiful notes of ripe exotic fruits (grapefruit) together with sweet notes (apricot, dried apple and vanilla).
Palate: a pleasant richness with mineral lash. Important structure and depth. Citrus and saline final taste.

Acinatum Recioto di Soave DOCG 2006

Made from 100% garganega grapes that have been carefully hand selected then rack dried to concentrate the sugars.

Colour: saffron yellow.
Nose: elegant and harmonious sweet notes of light-coloured honey (acacia) and of candied fruit (orange, apricot). Nice and delicate mineral notes.
Palate: delicious thanks to the elegant sweetness and a sober freshness together with an unmistakable minerality.

Monte Carbonare Soave Classico Magnum 2009

Colour: straw yellow with considerable intensity and brilliant highlights.
Nose: fragrant and facet with nice notes of orange and grapefruit together with important mineral notes thanks to the volcanic soil.
Palate: juicy and savoury with a very good acidity which gives freshness and liveliness. An almond dry final taste typical of the indigenous Garganega grape.