Verona wine fair, Pav. D, boot D1-D2.

Introducing the new vintages:

- "Ribeo", DOCG Morellino di Scansano 2009

- "Roccapesta", DOCG Morellino di Scansano 2009

- "Calestaia", DOCG Morellino di Scansano Riserva 2007

- "Pugnitello", IGT Maremma Toscana 2008.

I look forward to meeting you from March 25 to 28, Pav. D, boot D1-D2.

Best regards,

Alberto Tanzini

Tel. +39 0564 599252

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Our dreams come true, modifying our previous existence, cementing our love for the land.

Some times our roots do not need to sink into the historical darkness of the origins, but extend instead on the surface, like the branches of a plant that longs to meet with other branches and take them by the hand.

This is the way that my branches met those of Maggie,my wife, and thus that I held her hand; both of us wanted to  follow up the natural instinct of the love that united us and, not all frightened, the more vital nomadic instinct, for which we abandoned our origins in order to grow together, in a system of relation with  one another, wherever destiny chose to  carry us and to bring up our children there and build, with  them and for them, new stories able to interlace themselves with ours. Stories, each of which have their personal source of water: my story is in Brescia, Maggies’s in Slovakia and the shorter ones of Luca, Leonardo and Francesco gush from these hills of Scansano, in Maremma - where they were born - to find themselves united in this sea of vineyards where we create the dreams and projects as true Tuscan winemakers. Who would have thought that all this would have been realised in this pleasant place and that our shared nomadic nature would have carried us so far not only from our birth places, but also from our professional activities, me abandoning employment as a financial advisor and she in the diplomatic world in which she was just beginning to take her first steps. These were years in which I and Leonardo my father had in mind the idea of finding a house in the countryside where we could spend calm and regenerating weekends; this is the why I had started a search that led me to look just about everywhere from Valpolicella to  Chianti, to  Val d’Orcia, without ever finding the suitable location or piece of real  estate, leading me to think that what I was looking for was none other than Neverland. I had still not developed the passion fro wine even though I did not dislike the idea of measuring myself against totally unknown wine-making system. This did indeed occur immediately after I purchased Roccapesta in September 2003, a marvellous winery, whose 72 hectares are arranged along the crest of a hill where on the one side the view extends to beyond Saturnia and from the other to the sea. A demanding expanse of land that required an active and continuous presence and meant a new choice of life, the acquisition of responsibility and a new and very different awareness of the future. The nomadic spirit of us both was not late in arriving making my old dream come true, modifying our previous existence, our habits, stimulating new and different passions, cementing our love for the land, different from that in which we had grown up in and become adults a dream that united the fear of undertaking new roads, unknown to us with an unquestionable fascination. A new world opened up in front of us and I faced it with the joy of a child and with the absolute knowledge that I would have to find efficient, careful and scrupulous collaborators able to supply me with what that “wisdom” which I did not possess and that I found in agronomist Laura Bernini, oenologist Andrea Paoletti and Domenico Monellini, for 40 years cellar master of the Le Pupille farm. People to whom I can never finish expressing my thanks for the patience, the dedication and the experience that they wanted to decant in this new Scansanese reality, teaching me very technical and practical aspect of the trade to which I had decided to dedicate myself. Collaborators with whom I have been immediately able to give the wines that we produce a strong identity, above all that Morellino which is so closely connected to the region to which, with a vine such as the Sangiovese, we mixed a touch of Ciliegiolo, to add personality and to differentiate ourselves from the other products in this area. The rest, like the new vineyards and the new wine cellar is recent history and it could not be any different; a short history, too short, that I nearly have difficulty in telling, knowing full well that there is still a long way to go before Maggie and I can allow ourselves to enjoy that which we are building together.

Alberto Tanzini