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| 54 hectares of forest and vineyards and olive trees. Inhabited by a shepherd and his sheep until 1998. An uncontaminated soil and a marvellous vegetal variety. With breathtaking views and pure air. A long time ago, in 1984, I fell in love with Montalcino. I am a nature photographer and these views, that - like our poet Ungaretti said - enlighten me of immense, just stole my soul: I had to have a house here! So in 1987 I begun searching for my Tuscan “mansion” without even thinking I would produce some wine: I was a wine lover but I thought I would be too old to enter this incredibly long learning curve. Every proposal was too big, or too expensive or not suitable… so it took ten years before my friend Carlo Vittori called me again and told me that he had found a place. And, recalling his words…how right he was! I arrived from Switzerland (I used to live there) after a six hours drive to see this shepherd under a centenary Oak taking his afternoon nap with his sheep bleating and ruminating around him and the big white Maremmano dogs running in circle to keep them at spot. (Two of them, mother and daughter, where so wild that they remained with me: he wasn’t able to load them on his truck when he left. And when I asked him a few months later what to do with those dogs, he candidly told me with his Sardinian accent to shoot them, which I obviously never did. ) So I immediately understood that this was my place. The place of my life. The beauty, the distance from what, living there, we call “civilization”, the absolute absence of the horrible architectural slaughter of the last century that has destroyed so many Italian landscapes, the perfumes that pervade all year long this hills, the deep view on the east to Monticchiello… and Montepulciano, the prehistoric volcano Monte Amiata on the south, the near amphitheatric hills protecting Le Ripi on the west and north… all this was so wonderful… But also so uncontaminated. Thousands of years of almost no population, a poor and dry soil that gives very poor crops, over 40°C in the summer and frozen lakes in winter, three or four hundered years old olive trees, forests of incredibly many different trees and shrubs, and flowers, flowers, flowers everywhere, all year around. And the wild asparagus, the Porcini, the blackberry, the white and black truffles that only the dog of my friend Francesco’s is able to unearth, the wonderful red “corbezzolo” (arbutus). And then the wildlife, with rabbits and deers, boars and porcupines, wolves and yews, badgers and foxes, eagles from the Amiata and herons, buzzards, hawks, and the storks that pass by at the Orcia river twice a year, or al kinds of ducks that come into my lakes. |
| ABV: | - |
| Distillery: | - |
| Vintage: | 2016 |
| Region: | - |
| Size: | 750 ml |
| Availability: | Currently Out of Stock |
| Distributed by: | IW |
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