Maschio Bonaventura

The story of Maschio Bonaventura begins at the close of the nineteenth century in Cismon del Grappa, between the peaks of Monte Grappa and the waters of the Brenta, where the Maschio family worked the land and practiced the distiller’s craft with a travelling cart of stills — a journey that carried them across Eastern Europe and home again, the little copper still always in tow. It remains the emblem of this historic Azienda.

It was Antonio Maschio who founded the company, and his grandson Bonaventura who, in the early twentieth century, gave the family art its enduring shape. Grappa 903 — named for the year of his birth — carries his signature still: a patient balance of select pomace, distilled with method and conviction.

Then, in the 1980s, came a quiet revolution. Italo Maschio chose to distill not pomace but the whole grape — sun-ripened berries, captured through low-temperature vacuum distillation in copper. The result was Prime Uve: a spirit of uncommon finesse, luminous with the aromas of the vine, and the name by which the world has come to know us.

Today, the fifth generation — Anna and Andrea Maschio — leads the house from Gaiarine, in the province of Treviso, guided by the same principles that have crossed a century and a half: rigor without rigidity, innovation in service of tradition, and the belief that a great distillate should preserve, above all, the memory of the fruit from which it was born.