Wine is a mixture of mood and light
– Galileo Galilei
Wine is an important part of the memory and history in this part of Tuscany: the Etruscans, who introduced it from the East to Tuscany, considered it a “sacred” drink. Today the Strada del Vino drives us to discover ancient cellars and new vineyards passing through Bolgheri and Castagneto Carducci up to Suvereto!
Tenuta San Guido is one of the oldest in the area. It was Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta to dream of a wine like Sassicaia.
Antinori family has been producing wine for more than six hundred years and Guado al Tasso is one of their smallest winemaking paradises where Guado al Tasso, Bruciato, Cont’ugo and Vermentino were born.
Masseto is one of the most famous wine in the world by Tenuta Ornellaia where the Frescobaldi family has combined tradition, experience and innovation with creativity and the pursuit of excellence.
There are two estates managed from great women which produce great wines, in Bolgheri, Tenuta le Macchiole were the Paleo, the Messorio and the Scrio were born and in Suvereto Tua Rita with the Giusto di Notri and the Redigaffi.
“The continuous research of quality as an expression of the unique and unrepeatable nature of the vineyard and its union with the man”. Thanks to his passion and intuition, Michele Satta produces quality wines like I Castagni and Piastraia, both Bogheri Superiori doc.
Podere Grattamacco was founded in 1977 on top of a hill. Today, the Grattamacco Bolgheri Red Superior is a wine known all over the world.
Guado al Melo è un’azienda familiare condotta da Annalisa e Michele Scienza con l’obiettivo di produrre grandi vini di territorio in modo artigianale e sostenibile. All’interno della cantina, completamente interrata ed ecologica, c’è la Biblioteca del Vino che ospita diverse migliaia di volumi sulla storia e cultura del vino.
Petra is famous not only for its wines, but also for the particular architecture of the cellar designed by the architect Mario Botta, for the modern production cycle and for the processing of the grapes that start their transformation on the upper area, till the lower point of the cellar where the whole process is preserved: the wine. The most renowned wines, Hebo and Quercegobbe.