The Arnaboldi, Brichetto and Moratti families are very attached to this ancestral residence, where they have celebrated and celebrate their anniversaries and convivial occasions. A lineage that through successive generations maintains a special relationship with this house with remote roots, full of beauty, emotions and affections.

Wine, wine production, is the ideal thread that connects this entire story that crosses eras, legacies and suggestions to reach us. Today Gabriele Moratti runs the Castello di Cigognola winery, to which he has given a decisive turn.

High on a hill in the Oltrepò Pavese and dominating a network of splendid vineyards, the Cigognola castle opens onto the panorama of the Scuropasso valley, which it originally controlled as a defensive bastion. The foundation certainly dates back to more remote periods, but the first documented news dates back to the mid-13th century.

During the Middle Ages, the fortress, thanks to its strategic position towards Emilia, was contested by feudal families such as the Sannazaro and the Visconti, and then transformed into a humanist court in the Renaissance.

In the 19th century, Don Carlo Arnaboldi-Gazzaniga, a patriot of the Risorgimento and philanthropist, following the fashion of the time, remodeled what remained of the medieval structure in a neo-Gothic style, adding Ghibelline battlements, decorations in the portals, coats of arms and various ogival decorative elements.