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The original house of Ramandolo club dates from early
1900. Its doorjambs, made of a peculiar stone from Torreano
(piasentina), are typical of that period. The building is located
at the foot of the hill of Ramandolo and surrounded by
the vineyards that produce the first DOCG wine of the area.
The founder of the family, Domenico Dri, called Meni, together
with his ten children built the house and cultivated the vineyards around it.
He built the first independent cellar of these hills. At that time wine producing and selling was a
privilege only of the local squire, Count Pecoraio of Torlano.

This cellar is one of the oldest in the village and it is entirely excavated in the rock, in order to keep a constant temperature throughout the year.
It has a nice vault made of bricks and steel sleepers.
In the cellar you can see the old wine casks branded with the
initials D.D. of Domenico Dri, used to carry them on a wagon
to the local wine fair. The wooden plate used by Domenico Dri
is still there.

The cellar
It is only from the 1970's that the new producing methods enabled the two brothers Virgilio e Lino to set up a wine-producing farm, named " Fratelli Dri", that won several prizes for the quality of its wines.
They say that Ramandolo wine reached the Vatican because all the priests in Nimis were saying
Mass with this "sweet wine" and one of them becoming Cardinal in 1980's brought his favourite wine to Rome.


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