VINEYARDS AND GRAPE VARIETIES

Once we arrived in Bolgheri, making decisions was no easy task. But we held dear to what has always defined and inspired us as wine-makers: a quest for uniqueness. And we found this uniqueness in four parcels of land that are typical of the area but which, together, express and reveal its singular nature, becoming an original ‘exemplification’ of the same great terroir.

Consisting of some 70 hectares (173 acres), Poggio al Tesoro is located in an area protected to the east by the hills of Castagneto Carducci and is covered with the typical Mediterranean vegetation of cork-oaks, bearberry shrubs and umbrella and cluster pine trees. One of the first tasks undertaken at Poggio al Tesoro was a preliminary study of the Estate’s soil types and climate so that only the grape varieties that were particularly suited to the specific pedoclimatic conditions would be planted in the appropriate sites. The Estate currently has four vineyards: two situated along the Via Bolgherese, the largest one in a hamlet called Le Sondraie in close proximity to the sea and the fourth in the Municipality of Bibbona.