GermanItalianEnglish 926/5000 The agricultural cooperative, one of the largest in Italy, was founded in 1960 by 33 farsighted and courageous partners, today it has about a thousand. Farmers who cultivate more than 1,500 hectares of vineyard located in the hills at an altitude of about 350 meters above sea level, giving life to an annual production of about 200.000 quintals of grapes. He pays great attention to environmental sustainability by using renewable energy from his own innovative photovoltaic system for his production processes. It has one of the most important sparkling wine plants in the South. But it is not the numbers that make sense to Guardiense. The winery, led by only three presidents in fifty years, has been able to adapt to the times and the changing of the markets, becoming a symbol of technological progress for the entire province and succeeding in combining experience and modernity.