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Fraternita Dei Laici

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MOLESINI ENOTECA DAL 1937 - WINESHOP

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Consorzio di Tutela Dei Vini A Denominazione D'origine Controllata Cortona

Founded in the spring of 2000, the Consortium has the tasks of control and protection of Cortona DOC wines and spreads knowledge about them with effective cultural, of popularization and promotion activities.

It protects the image and prestige of the designation with continuous quality controls and undertakes cultural initiatives aimed at making know the world Cortona, its territory and its wines.



Currently, there are 22 member companies and represent almost the totality of the producers. Among them, we include trademarks born and rooted in the region, others of more recent tradition and others of international importance. Encouraging is the fact that these latter have given so much credit to the territory of Cortona to make it the seat of substantial investments.



The environmental conditions, the natural vocation of the sites and soils, the tradition and the culture of wine have led to the spread of a viticulture of extreme quality and to the production of high quality wines.

The consortium has the task is to interpret, transmit and ensure this quality.

Tenuta di Petrolo

The Petrolo Estate is owned by Lucia Bazzocchi Sanjust, and is managed by her son Luca Sanjust. The technician agronomist of the company is Mr. Carlo Nesterini, the wine technician of the company is Mr. Stefano Guidi, who make use of external advice, both on oenologic and agronomic issues, of Mr. Carlo Ferrini.

Production area: the property currently covers 272 hectares, of which 31 hectares of specialized vineyards, 19 hectares of olive groves and the rest arable land and forest at an altitude between 250 and 400 meters above sea level, where the terrain presents rocky stratifications of marl. The area is the one of the Arezzo hills that encircle Monti Chianti, historically known and delimited in 1716 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany as a particularly precious winemaking and olive growing area. The Petrolo Estate was part of the medieval fiefdom of "Galatrona", of which there is still the tower (Torrione (great tower) which from which the name of the wine comes), built on foundations of the Roman era. The Estate was purchased by the Bazzocchi family in the forties, and since the second half of the eighties the current owner is Lucia Sanjust Bazzocchi, who, with the help of his son Luca Sanjust, has pursued a wine production based exclusively on research criteria of extreme quality.