Founders – Maculan

Fausto Maculan

Fausto was born in 1950 in one of the rooms that would be destined to become his offices. From a very young age, there coexisted within him a love for classical studies and the personality of a salesman which, even at thirteen years old, led to his going to visit clients, accompanied by a driver.

At the age of 14, his father Giovanni sent him to the School of Enology in Conegliano Veneto, from which Fausto graduated in 1970. After military service in the corps of the Alpini, he returned to Breganze and took over the viticultural, winemaking and commercial management of his family’s company. He started a personal revolution, initially marked by many errors, which, over the course of time, turned into a wealth of experience and self-awareness.

It was the 1980s: the methanol scandal tarnished the image of Italian wine, but Fausto tenaciously pursued his goal of quality; he studied, traveled, and compared notes with producers in the world’s finest wine zones, the French above all. He learnt English, and continued to experiment.

In the same year he officially joined the winery as winemaker alongside Fausto. She learned the methods and knowledge related to vineyard management and cellar operations, supervised grape ripening, fermentations and wine aging, and over time gained the experience and decision-making autonomy that led her to the position of sector manager.

Angela Maculan

Angela Maculan is the best thing to come from the 1977 vintage, Fausto likes to joke. Ever since she was a child, she cultivated a passion for wine, running through the corridors of the winery and being curious about her father’s work, intent on following every stage of vinification from the arrival of the grapes through to bottling.
Angela is still moved when she remembers the first time she was given permission to use secateurs in the vineyard, as well as the first business trip to her beloved United States, at the age of only nineteen.

Following a high school diploma in scientific subjects, Angela graduated in Agricultural Sciences and Technology from the University of Padua. In parallel, she cultivated two of the great passions she holds in common with Fausto: wine and good food.

Her educational and work trips became increasingly frequent, which gave her the opportunity to deepen her knowledge of wine and refine her palate by visiting the world’s most famous wine zones and tasting their outstanding products. So, in 2007, Angela took on the role of Sales Director and Export Manager of her family company.

Maria Vittoria Maculan

Maria Vittoria Maculan, born in 1985, desired ever since childhood to follow the path traced by her father Fausto.

After studying at the J. Da Ponte Science High School at Bassano del Grappa, she took the Degree Course in Viticultural and Enological Sciences and Technology at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Padua, based in Conegliano.
She went to Umbria where she did an internship at the Falesco estate, before graduating with honors in July 2007.

That year she officially joined the family company as an enologist, working alongside Fausto. She picked up new methods and information regarding the management of the vineyards and the processes in the winery; she controlled the ripening of the grapes, the fermentations and maturation of the wines; and, over the course of time, she gained the experience and decision-making ability that have led to her taking on the role of chief winemaker.

For several years now, Maria Vittoria has been a member of the Technical Committee for tasting D.O.C. wines, a position that allows her to visit the most important wine producers and wine regions throughout Europe.

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