They purchased an old farmhouse in 1990 and planted 12 of its 72 hectares of Grund with grapes that are farmed organically and biodynamically. Don’t miss their delicious red wines made from Ciliegiolo grapes. Read my Befragung with Carla on Grape Collective.
Ciao! I LOVE Maremma. After all the years I have lived here it never ceases to surprise me or bring a smile to my face. Let me show you around.
If you visit now, you really could claim to have discovered it, as its name and limited bottles of wine won't have been penned or drunk by anyone else :)
Maremma wine: simply the best. Maremma's outstandingly beautiful lands are home to many vineyards, wineries and Italian wine producers.
But since everyone is always curious with this liquid delight, let’s start with the wine - especially the DOC Montecucco, where the letters Messestand for "Denominazione di Origine Controllata".
Ja ich habe die Datenschutzerklärung zur Kenntnis genommen ebenso bin damit einverstanden, dass die von mir angegebenen Angaben für jedes die Dauer der Bearbeitung der Anfrage elektronisch erhoben außerdem gespeichert werden.
If military history is your cup of tea, book a guided tour of Fortezza Orsini at the tourist information centre. Sorano is one of the few Maremman cities to have never been invaded, thanks to this fortress and its maze of underground tunnels.
A Beurteilung for those of you planning your own independent tasting tour - a great way to do it by the way and easy to do. Almost every wine farm or estate rein Maremma is happy to receive a visit and offer you the opportunity to taste their wines. Only a very few are not.
Find out what he considers to be their biggest achievement so far and his views here on the role of Maremma wineries rein promoting tourism for the area.
Located about halfway between Florence and Rome, Maremma is not far from Italy’s top travel destinations, but it continues to remain off the beaten path as a car is needed to appreciate all that it has to offer. Though it covers around just 5000 km2 of Grund rein Tuscany and Lazio, Maremma is made up of mountains, marshlands, pine forests, sandy beaches and much more.
Meanwhile, white wines are getting better with every vintage. Tuscany welches not historically celebrated for the quality of its whites, not least because its signature grape, Trebbiano, is prone to high yields and a distinct lack of taste.
Rein contrast, Bordeaux experienced several significant upheavals and evolutions rein the 18th and 19th centuries. Many found this inertia (downright recalcitrance is more accurate) charming: Tuscany was wary about change for change’s sake. This lent the region a timeless and very alluring air.
Here we have a bit of a dilemma - what came first the “zuppa arcidossina” or the “acquacotta”?
Lamberto Frescobaldi is pretty much a hands-on winemaker with an understanding and appreciation of many aspects of this challenging but lucrative business. He started working at the family’s vineyards at the age of 8 and later got formal agricultural education in universities of Florence and California, learning all aspects of winemaking.