When I asked Carlo Ravasio his job, without hesitation he answered me: – Cynthia, I'm a bricklayer! – Startled, I looked a bit 'puzzled. La realtà, the real one, is that many people I meet have two lives (I understood).
It grows and changes, the same events that sometimes overwhelm us make us discover hidden potential that awaken our passions and transform our lives. The question is – qual is real life? – Creed, rather they are convinced, that is the one that makes your heart beat us, that keeps us alive, and that makes us wake up in the morning with the desire to do.
Charles Ravasio is an entrepreneur building grew in the lands of an ancient rural village, once used as breeding of goats: Cavril (caprile in bergamasco). Its work has led him to invest in the abandoned village of his childhood in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, was determined to bring it back to life.
This recovery has given birth to a farmhouse, a house with a terrace from which I have enjoyed, sitting on a bench, the beautiful view of Bergamo. But not only, he also revived the old cellar where lie the bottles of the wines produced on the farm adjoining Sant'Egidio. Una storia familiare di origine contadina iniziata nel dopoguerra con l’acquisto della prima vigna: ‘Ronco Evening’.
Ronco Evening
Tre ettari di vigneti e uno di oliveto da cui produce olio extra vergine di oliva da cultivarOil mill, Casaliva, Leccino and Pendolino, and the wine that bears on the boards of its biological agriristoro. Ronco Evening, product with a cut of wine Merlot variable between the 60-70% and Cabernet Sauvignon for the remaining part, Tessére obtained from Merlot, Turano da uve Cabernet Sauvignon, and finally Marinele, da uve Yellow Muscat.
During dinner, where I met, Charles I expressed the desire to know how worthy of his land and its production using raw materials of small and medium farms in the area of proven quality.
From an idea often arise projects, that if shared, together and allow you to do well. Questa determinazione ha fatto nascere l’associazione delle ‘Setting Terre’, a group of growers united by a desire to enhance and promote the production of wine from Bergamo, many not yet considered as such.
Commitment, passion, quality, value, growth, and study programs: these seven key points that unite producers who want to associate. Seven, symbol of perfection linked to the fulfillment of the lunar cycle, for the Egyptians a symbol of life.
The night I met him, I had the pleasure of tasting a dish typical of the peasant: the Bread soup with vegetables with poached egg (poached egg). A dish by some considered poor, for me a rich dish, tramandandolo from generation to generation because it allows us to keep alive the historical memory of our bell'Italia.
A tree without roots has not lifeblood, exactly how a country that does not keep her memory alive…
[…] “During dinner, where I met, Charles I expressed the desire to know how worthy of his land and its production using raw materials of small and medium farms in the area of proven quality. From an idea often arise projects, that if shared, together and allow you to do well. This determination gave birth to the 'Sette Terre' association, a group of growers united by a desire to enhance and promote the production of wine from Bergamo, many not yet considered as such.” My story continues HERE […]