Villa Sandi belongs to the Polegato family, who have made wine in the Treviso hills for four generations. Mario Polegato bought his first vineyards in the early 1920s. His son Divo carried the business on with his wife Amalia Moretti, and their sons Mario and Giancarlo bought the villa at the end of the 1970s. It's a Palladian-style house from 1622, between the Prosecco DOCG of Valdobbiadene and the Montello and Colli Asolani DOC.
Restoring the villa turned up old underground galleries. After a trip to Champagne in the 1980s, the brothers used them to age their first classic-method sparkling wines, sold as Opere. Mario went on to found Geox, and Giancarlo stayed with the wine, taking Villa Sandi's Prosecco abroad with his wife Augusta.
The family now farms six estates across Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. The steep La Rivetta estate makes its Cartizze, which won Tre Bicchieri twelve years running from 2010.
Not tasted yet
I haven't reviewed a wine from Villa Sandi yet. They're on my Top 100 list, which is built from awards.