Pagus, genius and ... centuries of winemaking tradition. The pagus was the administrative district in Roman times. A political and administrative center, a crossroads, a meeting place, located here in Fumane. The genius, or the idea of ​​giving birth to a new wine reality, in what is an area where there are, as documented proof of Roman settlement, tombstones with inscriptions that recall the presence of the Arusnati, a population of probable Etruscan origin, dedicated to the cultivation of the vine and the working of the stone, known in the world of scholars for having maintained its cults and a certain autonomy under the dominion of Rome.