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Tenuta Il Poggione Wine
The story of Tenuta Il
Poggione began at the end of
the 19th century. It tells of
Lavinio Franceschi, a
landowner from Scandicci, on
the hills that rise above
Florence. Franceschi was so
fascinated by the tales told
by a shepherd moving his
sheep to their summer
pasture on the slopes of the
Maremma between
Montalcino and Sant’Angelo
that he went to survey the
place, caring nothing for the
distance and dangers that
commonly beset travellers in
those days. He found his visit
so interesting and the
scenery so majestic that he
decided to buy land there.
Tenuta Il Poggione covers an
area of 530 hectares (1300
acres), of which 140 hectares
(336 acres) are planted with
vines and 50 hectares (120
acres) with olive trees; the
rest are dedicated to grain
fields, forest and livestock.
The estate’s guiding principle
is to pay great care to the
vines, because the secret of
producing great red wines lies
in the high-quality vineyard
work.
In the light of a sustainable
agriculture,
the winery has always
planted different crops
along the vineyards and
limited the use of chemicals.
Most recently, it has installed
solar panels on the roof of its
cellar,
with the purpose to reduce
the carbon footprint of its
wines.
The vineyard work is mainly
manual,
for the harvest and for the
other jobs.
Thanks to the practice of the
green harvest,
the monitoring of the
vineyards’ health conditions
and the soil’s nutritional
needs,
it is possible to obtain an
excellent wine even in more
difficult vintages. |
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