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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...

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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,...

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,...

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...

Some thoughts with reference to Art. 62

Christmas is the time of the year in which most sales are concentrated. This obviously is also the case for wine, chosen as a present by those who want to donate not only the pleasure of a drink, but also the emotions of an evening spent in company, sharing a...

Come taste our wines in the Winebars and wineshops of the Vinarius association

We are very happy to inform you that together with other wineries who participate in the Maremma Wine Shire, during the month of October we will take part in a special event with the prestigious  Associazione Enoteche Italiane Vinarius. This association, founded in 1981 to promote winebars and wineshops as a...

A short mid-harvest report

Today it's raining in Maremma and we have stopped gathering the grapes, so here's a short mid-harvest report. We are indeed halfway through the 2012 harvest and the vine-dressers, our vignaioli, are all at work, following the indications of our agronomist with regards to what vineyards need to be harvested...

Our Bianco di Pitigliano Rasenno 2011 reviewed in Il mio vino USA

This cooperative winery, founded in 1972, today has a list of 150 member growers farming an extensive and varied range of terrains. The member growers’ vineyards fall within the Bianco di Pitigliano DOC zone. THE WINE Vibrant pale straw shot through with pale green highlights; fragrantly intense apple-like aromatics lifted...