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Incredible brunellos. Try the bonsai, and buy...

8/31/16
Incredible brunellos. Try the bonsai, and buy it if you can afford it.
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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…

Our wines, regardless the variety used, are recognisable even in different vintages because they develop peculiar notes - in the aroma and in the structure - strictly connected with this terroir. I advocate that this is related with the fact that our plants grow in a natural environment and therefore they can express the geological and chemical structure of the soil. Since the beginning, for example, I truly wanted to preserve the original flora: flowers, herbs, the micro-flora and the mycorrhiza developed in the centuries before. To maintain this biodiversity we did not plough the land, turning it upside down but we simply moved the compact land to permit oxygenation.