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Family  At least 600 years of history bind the Bonotto family and the small village of Tezze, situated on the left bank of the river Piave, south of Conegliano. This area, in the first centuries after the year 1000, benefited from the fundamental contribution that medieval monasteries brought to modern European viticulture and wine- making . They were in fact the most important wine growers and vine diffusers. Adding to this from the beginning of the XV century several important Venetian families bought estates in the same area.An essential element of this new “Venetian Villas” trend is wine, fruit of a new viticulture and of a new enology, certainly better looked after and attentive to a more aristocratic and refined standard. It is not just a case that along the banks of a river, as often has happened in important enological traditions of the world, villas and vineyards of particular architectural importance were built.  We can follow these routes and note that these buildings are still used today as business centres of well known agricoltural firms.What about the Bonotto family? The “distrettuali” Bonottos of Tezze have cultivated crops, raised cattle and traded in grain since 1400. Later on, starting from the second half of the 16th century, they widened their activities obtaining the management of fields and meadows included in tthe vast patrimony of the Cistercense Abbey of “Santa Maria di Lovadina”, joined to the Monastery of the “Agostiniane di Santa Maria degli Angeli “of Murano, one of the venetian institutions which accepted the daughters of the patrician families.  In the following centuries the Bonottos of Tezze had, besides, an important role in the assignement of Municipal properties, state properties which were granted by the “Serenissima” to one or more villas together. Successively, the sale of these lands on the part of Venice, to finance the war in Candia, greatly involved the podestà of Conegliano. In that period a new important rearrangement of land property took place in the area. The Bonottos of Tezze, who intended to continue the agricoltural work, established themselves in the seat of “Borgo di Mezzo” where they still have their residence and wine-making cellars today. |
Via Duca d'Aosta 16 - 31020 Tezze di Piave - Vazzola - TV - Italy
Phone/Fax +39 0438 - 488323 E-mail: info@bonottodelletezze.it |
 Bonotto delle Tezze is member of Strada Vini del Piave |