OUR SUPERTUSCAN, IGT (TYPICAL REGIONAL APPELATION) WINES ARE SANGIOVES-BASED MERITAGES PRODUCED FROM 4 VARIETIES: SANGIOVESE, MERLOT, CABERNET SAUVIGNON AND SYRAH

CRESCENDO

This is our main Sangiovese wine with a few percent of other varieties added to accentuate the typical Sangiovese qualities: fruitiness, easy to drink and a faithful companion for all types of food including fish.

We call it "Crescendo" because that is what the wine offers: a crescendo of subtle tastes.

CORPO NOTTE

Our flagship red, a Supertuscan blend of our different varieties. It was aged at least one year in French oak barriques and further refined thru at least another 6 months of bottle aging. A good Tannin structure combined with a lively acidity and a reasonable price make it our best selling product. The Decanter magazine voted it in its 2004 august edition into the top 24 SUPER Tuscans (quality/price), and Veronelli included it in its 2008
"Guida per Spendere Bene"(Good Value Wines)

We call it "Corpo Notte" because it is vast, mysterious and complex like Tuscan nights.

CANTO DELLA CIVETTA (HOOTING OWL)

This is a very well balanced Sangiovese Meritage, aged in selected French barriques. It has all the characteristics of a "Big Red": plenty of tannins, good body and good mouthfill.

From the very beginning of our presence in La Rosola, at the time we started the renovation of the house and the planting of our vineyard and olive grove, we had the visit of a white owl every night. The first times she chose an old pear tree from which she observed us. Later she took to our old Stone Oaks, from where she sang most evenings in Spring and Summer. When we decided to produce a wine with specially selected barriques and only in the best years, we thought of our owl, and how she either comes or not, and how we enjoy her beautiful presence and mystic singing when she is there. With Hooting Owl/Canto Della Civetta we offer the best of what our vineyard gives us in each particular year.

The name has also deep ties to Volterra, since here the owl is a bird that brings good luck.

INDOMITO

A new wine we produced in 2006 - 340 numbered bottles.

In 2006 we took special care of the last row in the vineyard, the row with the full exposure to the morning sun. It is a row consisting of 2/3 Sangiovese and 1/3 Cabernet Sauvignon. When the crucial time came of deciding when to harvest, we left the last row untouched, taking more risks as to possible rains and storms, until we felt it had reached the perfect maturity. Only then the best grapes were picked and both the Sangiovese and the Cabernet Sauvignon were fermented together. The wine was then aged in one new oak barrique. We produced 340 bottles, which are numbered.
We called it "INDOMITO" ("Indomitable") thinking of the difficulties we faced in this project of creating a new vineyard and making top-quality wines in an area without wine-making tradition.

Its name is also in honour of Volterra, where the Tuscan landscape is often vast and untamed.