Discover the Ai Galli brand: here’s our interview.

The Ai Galli Winery is a cellar that produces great wines, interpreters of a unique style in the pursuit of perfect balance, capable of narrating the precious territory of the Triveneto. It was founded around the 1970s and develops between the borders of Veneto and Friuli Venezia-Giulia, the cradle of a Terroir highly suited for vine cultivation since the time of the ancient Romans.

Passion, research, dedication, and respect for traditions: these are the fundamental values pursued by Ai Galli Winery since its inception. Born from a deep love for its land and driven by an unconditional passion for wine and its work, the Ai Galli winery can currently count on a vineyard area that covers approximately sixty hectares, located in the eastern part of Veneto and falling within the territory of the controlled designation of origin “Venezia-Lison-Pramaggiore”.

For over forty years, a single true goal: the pursuit of excellence in wine, through the creation of products that reflect the noblest values of elegance, balance, and respect for typicity. Ai Galli Winery continuously renews and strengthens itself daily in the constant commitment expressed, in the unquestionable territoriality of the produced wines, in the ever-present desire to grow and improve. The heritage and knowledge of the cellar merge into daily work with great personality and coherence, creating a unique enological identity in the territory. This philosophy leads to thinking of the Winery as the place where the knowledge, experiences, and oldest traditions of transforming grapes into wine are preserved, which, fused with more modern technologies, guarantee the highest qualitative yield.

We love these realities, these producers of unique, certified, and award-winning delicacies: they are true treasures embedded in our Peninsula between seas and mountains and in the most remote streets of villages and countryside. We do not stop at merely experiencing their products, but we want to discover more closely the protagonists of this brand. That’s why we sent some questions to those who manage communication with us.

Stay with us to learn about Ai Galli: read the answers!
 

• Who are we talking to?
  I am Alberto Piccolo, Sales Manager.
   
• Is the company family-run? How many generations and from what year exactly?
  The winery was founded about 50 years ago and still continues to be a family-run business, having reached the third generation of the Galli family.
   
• In what year was the company founded and who was the founder? What was the founder's background or what field did he come from if different from the current one?
  The story of Ai Galli dates back to the early 1970s: Agostino Galli and his wife Elide began purchasing some plots on which the first vineyards were then planted. Eastern Veneto has always had a deep connection with viticulture and, more generally, with agricultural life. In those years, the concept of “quality production” related to wine was little rooted in our territories: the emergence of various businesses, including ours, for which the main objective had to be the quality of the product throughout the entire production chain (from vineyard to bottled wine) led to a constant change in mentality and therefore in the working methods of all the actors involved in the wine chain of our production area.
   
• What is your relationship with the homeland and its typicity? And why do you want to tell it with your products?
  The company is located in a special area, namely in the extreme Eastern Veneto, straddling two of Italy’s most important wine regions: Veneto and Friuli Venezia-Giulia. This leads us to encompass within our 60 hectares of vineyards different types of soils and various grape varieties, from those typically international to indigenous ones, which represent our true heritage in the wine sector. The philosophy of Ai Galli stems from a strong bond with our past, constantly renewed through everyday work. In this sense, we speak of the deep bond and enhancement of our oldest vineyards, fully integrated with our terroir, the development of the concept of “cru” with the goal of identifying all the differences/shades that our terroir can give to our grapes.
   
• What was the first product you created?
  The products on which the company initially decided to embark on a path of enhancement were Tocai and Cabernet Franc. The latter, although an international grape variety, has historically always found its purest expression in Eastern Veneto.
   
• What is the product that you consider “the flagship” today?
  As of now, we cannot overlook the Lison Classico DOCG. This is the only, albeit small in terms of surface area, DOCG from Tocai grapes present in Italy. The Lison Classico is the wine that binds us to our most important memories: Tocai represents for us the maximum expression of typicity that a white grape can express in our territory. This grape variety has found ideal conditions in our typically clayey soils, characterized by a particular superficial layer of calcium carbonate known as “caranto”, producing grapes capable of yielding wines of great elegance and longevity.
   
• Speaking of today: how much has the company grown since its inception? Can we have some numbers?
  Today, the company owns about 60 hectares of fully owned vineyards between Veneto and Friuli Venezia-Giulia, producing approximately 500,000 bottles/year, sold in the national market and in 25 countries around the world.
   
• At this moment: more tradition or more innovation?
  The Ai Galli philosophy has always sought the perfect balance between these two factors. Traditions represent everything that has allowed the company to develop over time and to reach today. Within our historic aging cellar, all the original concrete tanks from the time have been restored and are now used for the aging phase of all our still wines. Likewise, all innovations that can lead to improving the quality of work in the vineyards and in the cellar must be taken into consideration to potentially become new traditions in the future.
   
• Talking about the future: what tomorrow awaits the company? Is there any change or new evolutionary process planned?
  Like any forward-thinking company, our primary objective is to constantly grow through the development of three fundamental points: sustainability from an agricultural/agronomic perspective, constant improvement of the product, and the expansion of our sales network.
   
• Do you plan to create new products?
  Currently, our product portfolio is rich and varied. At the same time, paying attention to market trends and demands is a very important task to be carried out consistently.
   
• Having focused on Spaghetti & Mandolino, how important is online sales for you, what has been your past relationship with this sales channel, and how do you see it in the future?
  Online sales no longer represent a novelty, not even for our sector, so it should be considered by all companies as a real opportunity to diversify their sales channels, reaching the end consumer more quickly, directly, and effectively.
   
• Value: what has it been, what is it today, and what will it be in the future for your company?
  As already stated, undoubtedly one of our fundamental values is respect for tradition, in all its forms. This does not mean being anchored to the past but rather developing and introducing new concepts and innovations into everyday work while maintaining a common thread with our past.

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