Distillation has always been the main activity of the Maschio family. The first to start was the great-grandfather Francesco in the distant years 1880/1885, a pioneer who then handed down art and secrets to the grandfather Pietro who developed the occasional and craft work to a real commercial activity until the day of the death of the great-grandfather Francesco. Pietro Maschio in 1948 transferred the business from the province of Treviso to Verona, establishing the distillery in Monteforte d'Alpone, where it still is; in this new adventure he was helped by his sons Francesco and Giuseppe. In those years, and in the years to follow, Francesco and Giuseppe, guided by Pietro's expertise, have continuously refined the art of distillation, developing their own market in the province of Verona and in Veneto, a market based almost exclusively on the distribution of Venetian grappa to the myriad of small food stores existing at the time. Little by little, the market changed and Francesco and Giuseppe begun to distill pomace of only selected vines, such as Amarone, Valpolicella, Soave, Recioto di Soave, Chardonnay, thus obtaining superior quality distillates, so-called monovarietal. Now the distillery is managed by the three brothers Fabio, Stefano and Enrico and their cousin Roberto, but always guided by the experience and wisdom of their fathers.