The best wineries in Pisa.
The company, which now has sixteen hectares of vineyard, is one of the emerging realities in the Italian wine sector. The key feature of the company is biodynamic management.
La Spinetta was founded in 1977 and has always dedicated itself to the cultivation of Nebbiolo, Moscato, Barbera. A few years ago it has begun to devote itself to Sangiovese, with good results. Today, there are 65 hectares of vineyards, for a production of 150 thousand bottles a year.
A perfect area since the time of the Etruscans. This is the thread that binds the companies of the Montescudaio Consortium. Fourteen wine gems inserted in a Tuscan landscape influenced by the sea. The D.O.C., in effect, includes all municipalities in the Val di Cecina, Volterra excluded. A thousand–year story that is remembered by the "Cinerario di Montescudaio" (seventh century BC) depicting a funeral banquet with a large "crater" vase in which wine was mixed with water, according to the Greek custom.
The history of the vine in this area winds through centuries to the present days. In 1968 the Festival of Wine was founded, while in 1977 the D.O.C. was obtained with two types: a red wine based on Sangiovese, Trebbiano, Malvasia, and other varieties like Canaiolo and Colorino, and a white wine made from Trebbiano, Malvasia and Vermentino, which can also be produced as Vin Santo, dry, semi–dry or sweet (specifications which, since 1999, have been providing for the use of the so–called "innovative" vines like Cabernet, for example).
In these forty years, the Consortium has established itself and has achieved important objectives by bringing the name of this area on the international scene thanks to quality products. In recent years, then, the desire to make talk about Montescudaio and its territory out of the local and regional context has become more and more accentuated.
An ambitious program that rests its foundation on the willingness of producers to work in concert with local governments and with the present associative realities. A solid path that has given, up to date, significant results.
Ghizzano is a small hillside village, about 200 meters high, located on the coast of Tuscany, 40 km from Livorno and 40 km south of Pisa. The cellar and the olive mill are just around the tower built by the Venerosi Pesciolini family in 1370.
We are in an area called the Pisan Hills, which includes a group of hills to the south–east of Pisa. None of these rolling and gentle hills exceed 200 meters: the landscape is gentle and the climate is mitigated by marine airs, without great extremes of temperature and without great risk of spring frosts. The soil composite is very interesting. Formerly, the area was under the sea and the land is still rich in fossil shells. Of origins in the Pliocene era, it has a sandy–silty–clay texture.
Now, the Ghizzano Estate owns about 350 hectares, of which 20 are grown with vineyards, 20 with olive groves, 150 with cereal crops and 150 are woods and poplar groves. Our goal is to continue to invest in natural viticulture and agriculture, to place on the market products that are limited in quantity, but of the highest quality, while respecting the expressions that oil and wine can give in this area, not betraying the style, the elegance and the richness of aromas of these rolling hills.
Ghizzano produces maybe very little, but very well ... we will never stop believing in our wine. In 2003 we started a process of conversion to organic agriculture and since 2008 we are officially certified by the Soil and Health Institute.
Since 2001 we have also started the Farmhouse activity: we have carefully restored a few farm houses, furnishing them with family furniture, to offer a warm hospitality, always in the name of quality and elegance.
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via Poggio al Pino, 16 56028
San Miniato (Pisa)
The company, which now has sixteen hectares of vineyard, is one of the emerging realities in the Italian wine sector. The key feature of the company is biodynamic management.
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Via Annunziata 17 14054
Terricciola (Pisa)
La Spinetta was founded in 1977 and has always dedicated itself to the cultivation of Nebbiolo, Moscato, Barbera. A few years ago it has begun to devote itself to Sangiovese, with good results....
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Via della Madonna, 15 56040
Montescudaio (Pisa)
A perfect area since the time of the Etruscans. This is the thread that binds the companies of the Montescudaio Consortium. Fourteen wine gems inserted in a Tuscan landscape influenced by the sea....
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via della Chiesa, 1 56030
Peccioli (Pisa)
Ghizzano is a small hillside village, about 200 meters high, located on the coast of Tuscany, 40 km from Livorno and 40 km south of Pisa. The cellar and the olive mill are just around the tower...
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