As Laura always used to say, “it runs in the blood”: indeed, I was drawn to the family business right from the start and began working at the estate. By day I worked at a bank and in the evenings in the cellar, and while I tended the wine I was already planning its expansion and modernization. Today I can say with satisfaction that, in an old storehouse beneath the square in Pontedassio, I have created a technologically modern winery equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, and that I have passed the family passion on to my daughter Bianca, who works alongside me. She has inherited her grandmother’s verve and fierce determination and represents the third generation of winegrowers.