Once upon a time, there was a man named Pompeo Molmenti, a senator from Venice and mayor of a town called Moniga del Garda. He was passionate about winegrowing, and one day back in 1896, he decided to make his own rules and create a new wine. Drawing inspiration from the serene shores of Lake Garda, as well as from his travels to France, he developed the technique of making the Groppello grape into rosé wine. And so it was that the Chiaretto Valtènesi, the famous ‘overnight wine’, was born.

The procedure invented by Molmenti involves racking the wine to lift the skin from the must, delicately pressing the grapes and leaving them together with the skin for just a few hours (hence the name ‘overnight wine’) to achieve that famous pale pink colour. We still use the same method today. The only things that have changed are the tools we use, and of course, the experience we have gained over time.