“I was six. A school friend invited me to participate in the grape harvest in his parents’ vineyard. I quickly walked the fast mule track with my heart beating fast, not from fatigue, but from emotion. I gathered many bunches and made myself useful for manual pressing. The reward was a beautiful basket of grapes. Upon returning home, I found no one. I took advantage of it, pressed the grapes into a large jar and hid it. Every day I repeated the operations I observed in my friend’s cellar. When the fermentation was over, I poured the wine into the bottle with a colander and I could not resist the temptation to taste it. My mother noticed my breath, cornered me and I confessed. The punishment that followed could have been, but my first wine was born“
Pierluigi Lugano

Bisson wines were born at the dawn of 1978 when Pierluigi Lugano, art master and renowned sommelier, aware of the potential that he sensed being hidden in the sour wines of Ligurian farmers, decides to try the “adventure” of enhancing the grapes of the Ligurian Riviera Levant.

People start buying small batches of grapes from farmers scattered throughout the area and making wine in their own cellar, carrying out numerous experiments with modern winemaking techniques to understand how to treat local grapes. The excellent results obtained made it possible to “revive” those native Ligurian wines that had practically disappeared, such as “Bianchetta Genovese” and “Ciliegiolo” and to create new insights such as “Musaico”, a strong red wine personality. After a few years spent making wine with purchased grapes, aware of the fact that the wine is born “in the vineyard”, it was decided to plant vineyards on their own, in order to fully control the quality process of their wines.

Cultivation with “strict limitation of pesticides” is the latest challenge that is being pursued, with extreme conviction, in its own vineyards to guarantee quality and genuineness.