Family of Wine

Pure Cabernet Franc as a starting point

Pure Cabernet Franc anchors Enrico Marcato, winemaker at Family of Wine in Ronca, Italy, before the wider portfolio opens out across Veneto and beyond. He has worked with the Family of Wine orbit from 2004, after formal study in Viticulture and Enology at the University of Milan and a 2003 graduation that returned him to the family trade with a more technical eye. The project is not a single estate with one vineyard boundary. It is a grouped house for the wine ventures he has built since 2004, bringing i Prandi, Civias and Colognole under one company while keeping origin as the governing discipline. Marcato has described the idea in his own terms: "Enrico Marcato WINEMAKER is a project and a new vision of what the wines of my region, Northern Veneto, can be." That line matters because the place in Roncà works less like a monument and more like a bench for decisions, where family lineage, regional conviction and travel-tested cellar work meet in the same glass.

Basalt, Garganega and separate cellars of thought

The technical center sits in Northern Veneto, where the Lessini Hills bring basaltic soils and a cool microclimate shaped by the Alps and Lake Garda. In the i Prandi Soave, Garganega carries the argument without blending, 100% Garganega in the cited bottling, with a light straw color, white flowers, yellow fruit, sage, acidity and minerality held in balance. The cellar work follows the grape rather than forcing one signature across the range. Whites such as Garganega and Chardonnay are handled for freshness and aromatic lift, often through controlled fermentation and early bottling; some reds and reserve whites may see neutral oak or large casks for texture. The wider family lets Marcato move between places without flattening them. Acanteo Chardonnay comes from Agrigento in Sicily as 100% Chardonnay, while Acanteo Frappato is 100% Frappato. Colognole Sinopoe Chianti draws on Sangiovese with 7% Merlot, carrying red fruit, acidity and a food-minded frame. Annual production is 85,000 bottles, a scale that keeps the program legible from batch to bottle.

A Roncà house with regional reach

The house in Roncà is quiet by nature, more coordination point than visitor spectacle, with the work spread across labels, appellations and varieties rather than concentrated into one visible estate ritual. Family of Wine presents itself as contemporary and quality-focused, but its useful texture is practical: a headquarters for tasting, blending, deciding and holding separate origins in one family line. Veneto gives the core vocabulary, especially Soave, Lessini Durello and IGT Veneto; Sicily and Tuscany extend the conversation without taking the hand away from the method. The room, when the craft is happening, is less about display than sequence. Garganega, Chardonnay, Frappato, Sangiovese and Merlot arrive with different needs. Marcato’s task is to keep those needs distinct, then make them read as part of one cellar.

The family remains the frame

Family of Wine matters because it treats expansion as a question of discipline, not size. Marcato’s years in Kazakhstan rebuilding Issyk winery sit behind the project without turning it into a travel story; the Roncà bench remains the point of return. The next glass here is still judged by origin, variety and the restraint of the hand, especially in Pure Cabernet Franc.