Vivai Santamaria

Our company was born in the early years of the last century thanks to great-grand-father Luigi, was continued by grandfather Renato and expanded by father Pierpaolo. Now it is managed by his daughter Susanna. Our main production is focused on rooted grafts of wine vines, table grape vines, and hazelnut trees. All developed on a land surface of 20 hectares.

For what concerns the wine root grafts apart from the international varieties such as Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, we have worked to recover forgotten or lost varieties: Slarina, Timorasso, Bian Ver, Barratuciat, Montanera. This was possible thanks to the collaboration with the University of Turin, the National Research Council (Dr. Schneider and Dr. Raimon-di) and the regional Phytosanitary Service. In addition, we also have a wide pro-duction of table grape vines, with bare-root sand potted for two-year pots.

As customers, apart from national nurseries and garden centres, we boast European and International ones. Recently, we have added the hazelnut tree to our production. Apart from the most requested and known variety, the Tonda Gentile Trilobata, we produce other varieties both bareroot and in pot and with help of university professors, technicians, and collaboration with a foreign hazelnut tree centre, we also dedicated ourselves to the production of the grafted hazelnut tree.