48 Act II / Poggio al Tesoro, Nature and the Elements 49 Act II / Poggio al Tesoro, Nature and the Elements EARTH Terra When you arrive in Bolgheri and begin to move along its most famous roads, the celebrated cypress-lined boulevard, the shady and evocative Bolgherese road, you realize that this is not flat terrain but rather a continuous series of terraces, rises, and declivities which, from the hills to the east, slope gradually and sweetly towards the sea. And if you move attentively along all these roads, the color of its soil will never surprise you because it will gradually shade from a yellowish hue to a tint like tan, like the drop of coffee which has stained your milk in the morning, and then become browner and then redder and then brown again when you approach the hills of Castiglioncello. And it is here that the extraordinary viticultural adventure of this terrain began, was transformed, in a few decades, from an ordinary, even unhealthy spot due to malaria-carrying mosquitoes, to a celebrated, desired, and sought after one. A magic place which has given a sense to human efforts, which has repaid, quite abundantly, their toil; earth which mixes and amalgamates soils distant and opposed to one another, from the land and from the sea, creating a unique and original mixture of elements. Above: The poor, stony ground at Le Grottine… On the left: … and the clayey ground at Le Sondraie Act II Scene II
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