Stubbornness. Resilience. Curiosity. Like every good story, Celestino Gaspari’s has all these elements. Plus a lot of determination to dare, to grow and to experiment.
This fire has been burning inside him since his childhood spent in his family’s vineyards. Over the years, it’s been fuelled by a series of fortunate encounters with people who recognised and encouraged the ferment of the soul that still distinguishes him today. Because Celestino is a seeker. An explained. A thinker. But above all, a doer.
Many of the great Valpolicella wines are his work. His professional skills were honed by twenty years working as winemaker for some of the most renowned wineries in Valpolicella.
As his experience grew, so did the desire to create something unique, to give voice and substance to a wine that would bear testimony to the fertility and the heritage of this valley, constituted by numerous native grape varieties, the most authentic grape-drying methods and human skill in using intuition to select the best grapes and noticing every little detail about them.
And so it was that, in 1999, the wine Harlequin was born – and with it, the Zýmē adventure.
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CELESTINO
GASPARI
Father founder, grape farmer, winemaker.
