Gocce di Pietra, 2021

Our family has been producing wine for over 160 years. We make wine only from our grapes, a selec?on of local varie?es that we grow completely naturally, with no use of neither chemical nor organic fer?lizer and no herbicide. We do not even water our plants. We only cut the grass when necessary. Our vineyard is situated in the geographic area of hills called “Candia”, in the northest part of Tuscany, which boasts a millennial wine tradi?on, that dates back before the ancient Romans. Our land consists of 5 Hectares, en?rely terraced, with up to 80% slopes, that oTen suffer from landslides and constraints us to a merely hand work in the vineyard. From the year 2000 we started a new task: we work hard to find a solu?on to reduce and, why not to completely remove, the use of solphites. In 2010 we imposed ourselves to produce natural wines, even avoiding the addi?ons allowed by law. We believe that wine is a healthy drink, that can also help the health, and according to the tradi?onal thinking, wine is just fermented grape. To be faithful to this idea we don’t use any kind of industrial yeasts and not even industrial enzimes. Also in the cellar our thinking is that wine evolves on his own, and only a great connec?on between the grapes and the cellar allows to produce wines with a strong character and a long life. Today our Vermen?no Bianco, our Vernero and our Federico I° can be drunk also aTer 20 years of agening.