Theresa Eccher

Theresa Eccher, a small woman of stature born when the valleys dug by the Noce river were still dominated by the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph. A woman with a strong and determined character, indispensable to go through two world wars. A grumpy, sometimes, but kind woman. The history of his family is inextricably linked to wine, even if over the years, the vineyards of Val di Non have gradually given way to apple fields.

What is commonly considered the founder of the Eccher dynasty of Val di Non, Lorenz, arrived in Taio in 1810. He came from Laurein's, and he moved from his father's house to marry the beautiful Marianna Aizbolcher, widow of the innkeeper Gaetano Taller. In reality, the Eccher family has much wider origins, and boasts a nobility not recent, thanks to Emperor Leopold in 1639. The transition from being an innkeeper (immediately embraced by Lorenz) to wine production was brief. And the choice of vineyards fell, of course, on the coast of Revò, a place suited to that Groppello that Emperor Franz Joseph proved to like to the point of requisitioning practically all its production