26 Act I / Poggio al Tesoro in the Spotlight 27 Act I / Poggio al Tesoro in the Spotlight The first time I heard that the Allegrini family had purchased an estate down in Bolgheri I almost did not believe it. It struck me as quite strange that a firm so strongly rooted in its own territory could afford the luxury of a distraction away from its home base, its own appellation, its own personal history and sense of belonging. villa giona, a Bordeaux blend which they had begun to produce in a vineyard in San Pietro in Cariano had already seemed to me something strange and anomalous, even if, to tell the truth, the wine was very good indeed. The vineyard, planted very densely, at ten thousand vines per hectare, a production of little more than a half a kilogram per plant, oak barrels for the aging and mostly new: in short, they had truly done things in the proper fashion. But to pass from the province of Verona, however, to Tuscany’s Etruscan coast seemed a very big jump indeed, even a somewhat risky one given the modest results obtained by the majority of producers who had migrated to a region as seductive, but at the same time as challenging, as tuscany. There are always exceptions, but at times they bear names so prestigious and influential as to be embarrassing. On the left: Le Sondraie: panorama
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