Our Vignaioli interviewed on television

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Click on the image to watch the video. Our interview starts at 26 e 40''[/caption] Our own Sergio Bucci and Benedetto Grechi were interviewed by Adele Di Benedetto within the tourism television programme La Scia Bianca, which was broadcasted on  Gold TV Italia. Here's the video for those of you who...

A visit to the Roman ruins in Aia Nova

[caption id="attachment_1091" align="alignleft" width="300"] Oggi come 2000 anni fa, l'Aia Nova era circondata da vigneti. Già all'epoca, attorno a questa villa romana sorgevano fattorie e campi coltivati[/caption] Last weekend, the Luoghi del Tempo festival offered the chance for a visit to the Aia Nova villa. The meeting began with a guided visit to the...

Christmas in Maremma

[caption id="attachment_1312" align="alignleft" width="300"] Brunella (in the middle) in a picture taken by blogger Davide Arnesano at the end of a dinner at our winery, last year. To her left, Monica, the wife of our vice president Paolo Gobbi[/caption] With the holidays coming up, we've thought of asking our talented...

A special award for some special elderly members

[caption id="attachment_1392" align="alignleft" width="300"] The awards prepared for our elderly members[/caption] There's a saying in Maremma that literally goes like this «An old man in a corner will do much more than a young man in a field», meaning that experience and wisdom often has a greater effect than physical strength. This...

Sicomoro and Roggiano “starring” in Il segreto degli alberi

Here are a few photographs shot during the filming of  "Il segreto degli alberi", Alessandro Tofanelli's new movie, in the cinemas across Italy. The film is set inside the Parco Migliarino San Rossore - Tofanelli has directed many documentaries on nature. Among the protagonists, Raffaella Rea and Stefano Dionisi and...

The photo-gallery from the 40th anniversary of our winery!

At last, here are the photos taken on the occasion of the dinner during which we celebrated with our members the 40th anniversary of our winery, a dinner organised in Scansano just before Christmas. The evening, as Chiara Farusi so finely described, saw all the people who have made the story of this cooperative,...

#Aperitaly Twitter-aperitif

#Aperitaly Twitter-aperitif - Monday 8th April at 5,30 pm - Pavilion D, stand D3.http://vignaiolidiscansano.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/aperitaly_zps0beeec26-1.jpgaperitaly_zps0beeec26.jpg/home/vignaioli/public_html/wp-content/uploads/aperitaly_zps0beeec26.jpg756|1523aperitaly_zps0beeec26

If a coop works like (or better) than a private business

Here's a detailed article covering our coop on the pages of Italian wine journal Corriere Vinicolo. It all began from our project of offering private producers 100 euros per quintal for their grapes. We wrote about it here. Unfortunately the article is only available in Italian but just in case,...

Our investments continue

Work in progress Here are a couple of pictures which were taken yesterday, in the morning, in order to tell you about our new project: we are renovating the area where the grapes will be received when our members-vintners will deliver the fruit of their harvest. Works began at the...