After earning a degree in agriculture at the University of Turin, Donato Lanati specialized in viticulture and enology at the school led by Prof.Italo Eynard and started his working days at Cocchi, a producer of Asti, and then at the Social Cooperative of Montemagno.

Simultaneously, he began the undertaking of a courageous path in the realm of enological research in small laboratories until 1990, when he founded Enosis, the first and innovative structure devoted to in depth analyses of native grape varieties, in a small building at Cuccaro Monferrato.

Twelve years now a Professor of Enological Technology at the University of Turin, he is also actively busy as a consulting enologist for both national and international wine estates, public institutions, distributors, and universities. Since 2005, he is the director of Enosis Meraviglia, the Research and Service Center in Enology and Viticulture inaugurated that year in Fubine (Alessandria).