Casa Vinicola Botter Carlo, Italy

We were not born yesterday. We’ve come a long, long way. All the way from 1928, in fact, when Carlo Botter, a wine merchant who traded in table wine for the Venetian patrician families decided to start his own business. First a small winery, then a few more acres of land, until, over the years and with the help of his children and grandchildren, the Casa Vinicola Botter became the established wine producer it is today.
Perseverance and stubbornness were the first ingredient of our success. But the terroir has definitely had its own part. Because the area of Italy where we are – a few kilometres from Venice and just this side of Friuli – is a blessed area indeed. Or, rather, a land with a vocation, as those in the trade define it.
Today, the winery, managed by the third generation of Carlo Botter’s descendants, exports into 35 countries the world over. Our wines are in all the best wine shops as well as the large-scale retail trade.

Our vineyards
Our vineyards are in the Piave doc area, just across the boundary line with Friuli, but we do not produce in Veneto only, we are expanding our confines with new products and that is why we have started a close cooperation with an important wine producer in Apulia.
Veneto: La' di Motte Estate, (Motta di Livenza - Treviso)
Appellation: Veneto igt - Piave doc - Friuli Grave doc, Hectares: 500 - Plants per hectare: 3.500 - 4.200
Wine produced per hectare: max 50 - 100 q/ha - Vinification capacity: 13.000 q/grapes. Stocking capacity in stainless steel tanks: 13.500 Hl. - Stocking capacity in barriques: 1.000 Hl.
Puglia: Koin&
232; (San Marzano - Taranto)
Appellation: Salento igt - Tarantino igt - Manduria doc, Hectars: 500 - Plants per hectare: 3.800, Wine produced per hectare: max 100 q/ha, Vinification capacity: 1.200 q/hour.
Stocking capacity in stainless steel tanks: 90.00 Hl. Stocking capacity in barriques: 2.000

Vips
Perhaps you didn’t know that Ernest Hemingway was one of winemaker Botter’s first and best customers.
During the First World War, the eighteen year old Hemingway drove ambulances at Fossalta di Piave.
As you probably know, even as a young man, the future Nobel laureate loved “energetic” activities, such as hunting in the lagoon area, fist fighting and – of course – drinking.
Botter was just starting, and sold its wines to the local restaurants and through shops. One of our customers came “on behalf of an American soldier, great guy, a bit of a loudmouth, with a taste for good wine”, particularly Pinot Grigio. Hemingway stayed in Fossalta until he was injured and hospitalised in Milan. After the war he came back to the Piave river area many times to go hunting and taste our Pinot Grigio.