"Ricette di vite" originated from the idea of bringing together the recipes that have accompanied our family for several generations. "Collecting" from our past has meant "projecting" ourselves towards the future with solid roots. Remembering the special dishes of the past, prepared by expert hands with care and love also means remembering all the women in our family, their faces, their gestures, their voices, their personalities. In the same way, each dish takes us back to a particular moment from many years ago, to a specific occasion, to a unique recipient to a season of the year, to a room among many, to a special smell or to a tool that is now unobtainable. My mother Lucia Cesarini, author of this collection, today firmly holds the coomon thread between "them" and "us", dedicating herself to cooking and daily reproposing one recipe or another.
All this also becomes important for our wines, created by the family,the fruit of generations of work,the result of daily effort and passion,faithful companions of our ordinary and extraordinary moments.
Wines perfectly and accurately paired with complementary food...
VINO - VITE - VITA - RICETTE
So, try our wines with our Ricette... di Vite!!!
Gemma, March 2025
INTRODUCTION
I am not a great cook, but I like to bustle about in the kitchen, especially since my kitchen window has a view of a beautiful forest. Since I am not “formally trained”, my recipes don’t always turn out the best. It was only when my “meat sauce” proved to be passable that I believe I heard my mom say, “The meat wasn’t browned enough when you put in the wine, that’s why your sauce is bland.” Or that time when the gnocchi were too soft and came apart in the pot that my aunt Marina in her pristine apron told me, “If you boil your potatoes without the skins, sweetie, your gnocchi will never turn out.”
Bits of experience, bits of affection, bits of a past life that is still very much alive, which reignite in my heart from time to time and which have nevertheless left so much in my soul.
Now that our winery is established (you need a good wine to go with a good dish) and a table is always ready to be set and shared with friends at our place, I am happy to jot down, without any pretense, the recipes that have always been part of my family. It is a way to keep the bridge between the past and the present open, a past when “my ladies” carried out their daily household tasks in their own simple way, lively and almost regal way: preparing meals for the family. Finding again, or rather, not losing the memories of life lived, even of the simplest things and daily life, is essential to never feeling alone.
Life does go on with its problems and challenges but always leaves something beautiful and enjoyable deep down (even for the palate). Our dear ones pass on, sometimes it seems that we can’t remember them at all, but then… just a taste, an aroma, a word… and we feel them right beside us smiling and alive as always. Fragments… recipes of life.
Lucia Cesarini