The best wineries in Ortonovo.
The Baia Del Sole winery, located near the archaeological ruins of the ancient Luni di Ortonovo, derives its prestige from the lands where the native Vermentino has its most probable origin.
Since ancient times, even under the control of the Ligurians, the port of Luni was used as a mooring for merchant ships both by the Etruscans and by the Greeks.
To the latter, the first consecration of the port to the goddess Selene is ascribed. Luni, which gave its name to Lunigiana, was an ancient Roman city that is currently located on the border between Liguria and Tuscany, in the town of Ortonovo. Today only ruins remain of what was once a powerful maritime city.
Founded by the Romans in 177 BC, to establish an outpost against the Apuan Ligurians in their war of conquest of the Italian peninsula, Luni became famous for its harbor, from which shiploads full of marble of the Apuan Alps, Apennine forests’ timber, cheese and local wines, praised by Martial and Pliny, left.
In the Augustan age, Luni knew a further period of splendor, and subsequently in the Julius–Claudian period, thanks to the nearby marble, turned into monumental city. In the fifth century it was chosen as the seat of a bishop, a sign of the importance of the city, which in 272 gave even a Pope: Eutychian.
At the border between Tuscany and Liguria, the lands of Ortonovo and Castelnuovo Magra in Lunigiana, extend from the hills that precede the Apuan Alps to the Ligurian Sea. Here Luni is located, a Roman city very rich and with shining marble, that dazzled the barbarians down from the Alps, making them believe that they had reached Rome.
Cantine Lunae sinks its millenary roots in the history of this land and these people, from whom is has inherited the tradition of a great wine. Probably the Etruscans, or perhaps the Ligurians and then the Romans cultivated vines in the beautiful surroundings of Luni, the city of the moon (Luna).
La Pietra del Focolare only produces wine made from its own grapes, four Vermentino wines and a Colli di Luni DOC red wine.
The promotion of four Vermentino wines is due to the different positions of vineyards, divided into micro–zones and located in three municipalities (Sarzana, Ortonovo, Castelnuovo Magra), and to the exposures and soil types that allow us to obtain wines that are different in color, flavor and aroma.
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via Forlino, 3 19034
Ortonovo (La Spezia)
The Baia Del Sole winery, located near the archaeological ruins of the ancient Luni di Ortonovo, derives its prestige from the lands where the native Vermentino has its most probable origin....
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via Bozzi, 63 19034
Ortonovo (La Spezia)
At the border between Tuscany and Liguria, the lands of Ortonovo and Castelnuovo Magra in Lunigiana, extend from the hills that precede the Apuan Alps to the Ligurian Sea. Here Luni is located, a...
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Via Dogana, 209 19034
Ortonovo (La Spezia)
La Pietra del Focolare only produces wine made from its own grapes, four Vermentino wines and a Colli di Luni DOC red wine.The promotion of four Vermentino wines is due to the different positions...
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Via Bozzi 63 19034
Ortonovo (La Spezia)
Via Bozzi 63 19034
Ortonovo (La Spezia)
