Cascina delle Monache
ROOTS
Cascina delle Monache is historically presents on the cartograph sheet of the Gavi municipality of the early 1900s and is one of the first farmhouse that has been built.
In the 11th century, several Genovese monastic groups have already established places of assistance like the «EREMITI» and the «BENEDICTA» to help clerics and merchants that travelled the old trade roads “le vie Marenche”.
These roads leading to the sea, built in Roman times to connect the western Po Valley to the Ligurian coast, connecting the surrounding villages with Genoa. Thus, our farmhouse was a stop where people could rest and recharge the energies.
Rosangela, called “Gilli” and also known as Nonna Gilli
Cascina delle Monache’s story is as young as deeply rooted and characteristic in the Gavi wine land.
Rosangela and Carlo, known as Gilli and Carlin by friends and family, were born before World War II and began the story of our family’s dedication to the land.
They were traditional peasants with sacrifices instead of indulgences and whose hard work and determination helped them create a beautiful, rural lifestyle.
Carlo, called Carlin and also known as “Carlo dei Micotti”
A lifestyle with a clear goal: make and maintain the estate that we now all know.
In the beginning, their business involved an array of different farm processes.
They were tenant farmers, cereal growers, gardeners, grape-growers and livestock farmers. Nowadays, we’d call them “exceptional multitaskers”.
And then if that wasn’t enough, in 1978 Carlin bought land and established the first family-owned vineyard…
