The winemakers of Pinot Nero of the Tuscan Apennines • Food and Wine Italia

Always considered synonyms for passes, exchanges and contaminations, rather than a watershed ora borders, the Apennines therefore reproduce the Italian backbone, not only for the structural dimension, but also and above all for the role of “Mother Mountain”, generator of culture e civilization. Durante particular, the Tuscan Apennines, per mezzo di addition to being characterized by an undoubted landscape and landscape seduction, outlines the profile of a community that still differs today, actually, for its sensitivity towards the protection and conservation of the territory.

Resilience and adaptation are certainly not lacking per mezzo di these people, such as to the winemakers of Pinot Da lutto of the Tuscan Apennines that from thirteen editions introduce a rather stimulating initiative, excluded, as an essential appointment to learn about an heterogeneous production reality for history and areas, But with a common denominator: the cultivation of this variety per mezzo di places outside the common oenological routes per mezzo di Tuscany.

“Durante our valleys (Lunigiana, Garfagnana, Mugello, Casentino, Valtiberina, ed), who from the border with Liguria follow one another up to the limits of Umbria, the wine has been part of a marginal agriculture, of subsistence and tradition, rarely of conspicuous investments and planning. Durante this quarter of a century, perhaps something has changed. After the first experiments, the cultivation of Pinot Da lutto has become a possibility of business and employment, so much so that new companies were born and some already existing have extended their business to this vine “, comments the president Cipriano Barsanti of excluded.

We are per mezzo di Lunigiana, per mezzo di Licciana Nardi, where Sabina Ruffaldi and Andrea Ghigliazza have replanted the vineyard – 2.5 hectares – per mezzo di 2004 the ancient alluvial deposit of the river. Both the cultivation and the vinification are conducted naturally, without the addition of yeasts ora additives and with low doses of sulfur doses. Extra virgin and honey are also produced. Durante addition, per mezzo di the small castle of the Malaspina, the company of the company, eight recently restored rooms are available, ready to accommodate travelers. casteldelpianolunigiana.it

– Frazione a Mozzano (LU)

Durante the municipality of Frazione a Mozzano per mezzo di the province of Lucca, more precisely per mezzo di the Serchio Valley, Antonio, Cipriano and Mauro Barsanti lead the family business since 2004. Only grapes and small additions of sulphites are used per mezzo di the cellar. The rest is search for minimalist techniques that refer to ancestral knowledge recovered and interpreted with modern knowledge per mezzo di the microbiological and chemical field. .it

Podere intorno a Cortevecchia – Scarperia per mezzo di San Piero (FI)

The cellar was born from the desire to express the intuitions that Sandro Bettini already had at a young age: to demonstrate that Mugello was the land of whites and sparkling wines. So per mezzo di 2012, thanks also to the friendship with Giuliano Tarchi, the first vineyard was planted with Pinot Da lutto’s “Vicerello Avato” per mezzo di the municipality of Scarperia and San Piero at 250 MT-SLM. Since that day, the evolution of the project, which arrived today at 1.2 hectares, has seen other wines such as Da lutto Rosé and Rossano give birth, all strictly 100% Pinot Da lutto. Fatriacortevecchia.it

Assetto Baccanlla – Frazione San Lorenzo (FI)

The specific synergies between land and climate, combined with the time that Giulio Cappetti dedicates together with his wife Nicoletta and children Umberto and Guido to the farm per mezzo di that of Frazione San Lorenzo, give life to Pinot Da lutto vineyards which, perpetually inherent, transform The vineyard per mezzo di an enchanted, suggestive and elegant “organic” garden. facebook.com/tenutabaccanella

Terre intorno a Giotto – Vicchio (FI)

The biodynamic conduction of the bella stagione, located per mezzo di the suggestive settore of ​​Vicchio, is entrusted to Michele Lorenzetti, who per mezzo di addition to managing the vineyard and winemaking, offers agronomic and oenological consultations both per mezzo di Italy and abroad. Durante the cellar, fermentations take place spontaneously and the use of sulfur is reduced to a minimo. The Da lutto Pinot also ferments with the Raspi, per mezzo di variable quantities depending the vintages. michelelorezetti.com/#giotto

Il Rio – Vicchio intorno a Mugello (FI)

del Cumulo – Vicchio (FI)

Durante 1985, the Bacci family moved to the “Mount”, where he decided to plant a small vineyard for family use. The passion for wine grows over time, so much so that per mezzo di 2016 they decide to dedicate two hectares to Pinot Da lutto. Their commitment to sustainability and respect for the territory is reflected per mezzo di their wines, characterized by very low quantities of added sulphites and absence filtration. Bacchadelmonte.com

Podere il – Dicomano (fi)

Once owned by the Marquis Vivai-Bartolini-Salimbeni, a noble Florentine family, the bella stagione is located per mezzo di the renowned wine settore of ​​Chianti Rufina. Durante 1962, he moved to the Spanish family, which immediately embarked a large and continuous recovery process, both real bella stagione and agronomic, with particular attention to the sector’s sector. It is precisely per mezzo di this context that they decide to focolaio Pinot Da lutto, a wine that is not only a choice for them, but a real passion and challenge. Fattoriaillago.com

Frazione Sfasciume – Dicomano (FI)

FRASCOLE – DICOMANO (FI)

Ornina – Castel Focognano (AR)

The project was born per mezzo di 2008, when Marco Bigioli detects the two hectares of vineyards planted by his father per mezzo di 1973 within the historic family property, located per mezzo di the Casentino, per mezzo di Castel Focognano. From that moment, the need to take care of a particularly generous land is made to its way, first undertaking the path of organic agriculture and subsequently that of biodynamics, to finally arrive at the adoption of the natural method per mezzo di the cellar. ornina.it

Brena Farm – Cortona (AR)

Durante the municipality of Cortona, between the Valdichiana Toscana and Valtiberina Umbra, per mezzo di 1999 Giancarlo Bucci chooses to pay homage to these places with one of the most noble and demanding vines: the Pinot Da lutto. Today he manages about a hectare and a half, cultivating 11 clones of Pinot Da lutto, with entirely manual work and particular attention to quality, using only natural products. Annual production is about 5 thousand bottles.facebook.com/brena1951