Sandro de Bruno Soave Veneto 2024

Sandro Tasoniero’s story is like out of one of Stephen Spielberg’s movies. Sando is a third generation winemaker who was pretty sure he didn’t even want to make wine, until his father unexpectedly passed away when Sandro was in his late thirties. Sandro was broken and that’s when everything changed. He decided to work a harvest in Chile in 2007, come back to Italy, and as soon as he returned he launched Sandro de Bruno that same year.

That was over 25 years ago. Nowadays he’s farming 11 hectares of organic vineyards at 600 meters above sea level on Mount Calvarin—a majestic active volcanic complex that emerged from the ancient Tethys Sea 40 million years ago. The locals affectionately refer to it as “the land of volcanoes.” You have to drive up a series of hair-rasing turns just to get up there. But once you do, it’s like you’ve unlocked the key to the castle and everything makes sense. The view from the top is breathtaking. So is the wine.