Ca' di Rajo

Ca 'di Rajo is a historic winery of the Marca Trevigiana. It is located in San Polo in Piave, in the Treviso countryside that extends from Conegliano to Oderzo, in an area characterized by predominantly alluvial soils, where the vine has lived for centuries. It is a family business, which runs a farm that has always been committed to enhancing the traditions of the territory with particular attention to the historical vines of the place and to the oldest vine growing systems. The flagship wine of the winery is undoubtedly the Raboso del Piave. It is produced with a native red berried grape, which gives wines of great structure, with important tannins and acidity. These are powerful and long-lived reds, which require long aging in wood to reach full expressive maturity. Precisely because of these characteristics, in the past it had been set aside in favor of more profitable international vines. It is due to some tenacious producers its rediscovery and enhancement, which have transformed it into an excellence of the territory. Among the white berried grapes, the company's focus is on the white manzoni, a variety created by Professor Luigi Manzoni of the Conegliano Enological School, crossing the Rhine riesling with the pinot bianco.

It is a high quality grape, which produces elegant and refined wines, characterized by a vibrant freshness. In addition to the two symbolic vines of the territory, Ca 'di Rajo cultivates: pinot grigio, chardonnay, traminer, sauvignon blanc, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and merlot. Ca 'di Rajo is famous for having preserved within the company 15 hectares cultivated with the ancient method of Bellussera, a historic system of growing the vine now lost. It is a real example of the archeology of the vine, which constitutes a precious historical memory of the past. The model was created towards the end of the 19th century by the Bellussi brothers of Tezze di Piave to combat downy mildew. The vines are planted in rows 3 or 4 meters apart. They are married to poles or fruit trees and made to climb up to two and a half meters in height. The long shoots are made to develop diagonally with respect to the inter-row, connected with iron wires arranged in a radial pattern. A sort of vault is thus created, which keeps the clusters very far from the ground and avoids the danger of excess humidity, which favors the spread of downy mildew. The wide inter-row was cultivated with vegetables and the plants that supported the vines were often mulberry trees, whose leaves were used for the breeding of silkworms. Today the old plants in Bellussera di Ca 'di Rajo are still in production and represent the history of the company with vines over 70 years old.