Following the descent from Valdobbiadene along the banks of the river Piave, you arrive in the charming town of Vidor, where the Dal Din winery occupies a piece of history. The building is a restoration of the ancient Zadra spinning mill, built in the mid-19th century, where 80 women once worked, reducing cocoons produced in farmers’ houses into raw silk sent to industries in Venice and Vicenza. The Second World War brought the silk industry towards its decline, and in 1960, Giuseppe Dal Din and his wife Lena transformed this industrial architecture into something new: a family winery.
Their daughter Norma, known as the “Woman of the Wine”, worked as administrator in close collaboration with her husband Riccardo, who took over the entire production chain from vine cultivation to vinification and the Spumante fermentation process. Between 2010 and 2011, a serious illness robbed the Dal Din business of two emblematic figures: Riccardo and Lena. Since that time, the winery has been run by Norma, her daughter Alessandra and her husband Oscar, who carry on the tradition and culture of Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore D.O.C.G.
From the vineyards of the Dal Din family, located in the heart of such a generous territory, come the prized grapes of Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore D.O.C.G. The wine is the result of persistent hard work, which over the years has fused experience, technology and professional expertise with the passion and love for an art which is as ancient as it is modern. They process their own grapes and those of selected suppliers to diversify and identify the different crus of the area, according to their geological conformation.
For the family, the passion to produce wine is expressed as a profound bond with the earth and its transformation, a love for the culture and history that wine embodies, and the desire to create something unique through natural processes and precise techniques, which require study and competence as well as enthusiasm for the final product.
What makes Dal Din wine unique is mainly the terroir: a set of natural factors including soil, climate, topography, grape selection, agricultural and winemaking practices, and the hand of the producer, which give each wine unrepeatable characteristics. Other elements that contribute to uniqueness include the surrounding biodiversity, the extreme conditions of heroic viticulture and the producer’s choices, which can vary from traditional methods to innovative techniques to enhance the authenticity of the product. On the strength of this heritage, not only material but historical and cultural too, the Dal Din family has distinguished itself on the international wine market.
