Cantina Villa Russiz

The Villa Russiz winery was founded in the last decades of the nineteenth century by the will of a far-sighted agronomist, Count Theodor de La Tour who sensed that the hills of Capriva, brought as a dowry by his wife Elvine Ritter in 1868, were an extraordinarily suitable for high quality viticulture thanks to the particular soil and the extraordinary microclimate of the place, a meeting point for cold alpine winds and mild sea breezes. The count made the cellar prosper, whose wines were appreciated throughout the Habsburg Empire. Today, as then, the farm, which is part of the Villa Russiz Foundation, produces wines of recognized elegance.