In the early days, the contribution of particular farmers, the parish priests, was indispensable. Not mere repositories of knowledge but authentic masters. There was Don Gino Malevolti who loved to refine Vin Santo in whisky casks and whose work was also praised by critic Luigi Veronelli. There was Don Ugo Polidori who defended the principle that wine is made from grapes and nothing else. Many still remember a rant he had with a farmer who had the audacity to put enocyanine in wine, almost a blasphemy to be punished ad aeternum. Finally, Don Giotti, perhaps the least experienced and technical but the most legendary.
Men who had learned from other men by following in the footsteps of a centuries-old tradition. Pieve di Campoli has deep and distant roots but is not content to live in the mere memory of them. For a few years now, also under the impetus of Pope Francis' Laudato si', the company has been on a path of growth and development, making use of the know-how accrued to date, but also of the collaboration of great professionals. The desire is to make the Church's presence evident  through the development of the farm and its opening to the world through a series of commercial, scientific, and social investments and actions. A challenge that has only just begun but is already yielding its first results. The labels of Pieve di Campoli and Cortine lines, already distributed in the GDO and Ho.Re.Ca circuits, have obtained their first recognitions, while at the research level the company has started a collaboration with Sacro Cuore University of Milan. Lastly, the collaboration with the San Francesco cooperative for the work placement of refugees and disadvantaged persons is important. These are the first steps, the first seeds of a journey whose protagonists are people who work every day with passion and intensity, without ever losing sight of what they are doing. Men with their eyes on Heaven and their hands in the Earth.