Fattoria Zerbina

About Winery and Wines

To achieve quality, short cuts are of no use. Even more so when wine is involved. What is needed are time, dedication, focus, and competence. And much courage. All of this is present in the spirit with which Cristina Geminiani works: a way of cultivating the vineyard, harvesting the grapes, transforming them into wine which is infused with the wisdom of tradition and the force to dare the new. Every wine of her Fattoria Zerbina estate is born from her profound link to the soil and from her attention to the hidden language of the vines, whose voice finds expression through Cristina’s sensitivity, instinct, and passion. Only then is her native soil transformed into wine. And becomes a work of art. Zerbina’s story began in 1966 when Vincenzo Geminiani purchased the farm of the same name and decided to plant the first vineyards. The first wines to be produced acheived, from the very start, a certain recognition. A new quality level arrived in 1987, however, thanks to Vincenzo Gemigniani’s granddaughter Cristina, who decided to throw herself body and soul into running both the vineyards and the cellars of the estate with one sole objective: reach new and higher quality levels for both Sangiovese and Albana. Some years later, Cristina’s younger brother, Vincenzo, began to work side by side with his sister, taking charge of the administrative and financial aspects of Zerbina. Since that early phase, innovations, all conceived and studied with a full respect for tradition, have been many indeed (and continue today).