Mosnel takes its name from an ancient dialect place-name, of Celtic origin, that means "rock pile," which conjures up very effectively the long, hard efforts required for the clearing and preparation of this land by Cistercian monks, from Cluny in Burgundy. Not very far from our cellar, in the borgo, or medieval hamlet, of Rodengo, they founded a magnificent abbey and were the first, as they ploughed the local earth, to introduce cultivation of the grapevine.

Thus, Camignone ("Cą mignon") too was able to quickly gain a considerable reputation for its production of good quality wines, as attested by the Catastico Bresciano of 1609, during the period of the Venetian Republic: for Camignone, it states that "the fields are good and yield wonderful wines."

It is precisely in the context of those auspicious traditions that the agricultural estate of Il Mosnel had its birth, as the property of the powerful Cacciamatta family and, starting in 1836, of the Barboglio family. The most ancient structure today, the 16th-century wine cellar, dates back to those earliest days.