Wine Tour and wellness in Tuscan Maremma!
Tasting of wines, olive oil, and relax in a very beatiful hotel and spa in the heart of Maremma! Read the complete description in the list of our wine tours!

David Leavitt is the author of different books on success only in english language like the one written in Maremma “in Maremma, life and a house in southern Tuscany.”
In the book, the writer talks of three years spent in a remote house near Semproniano. He decided to live in Maremma as he wanted to live far from other areas where foreigners had colonized, like Chianti or more recently Umbria.
He talks about the histories heard by the people of the village, dating during the war and following it.
In the book he define Maremma like an enormous national park, where wild boars, roebuck and chamois abound in the forest; where the people still make their living from agriculture at the opposite of Umbria there is not industries; villages where it is possible to hear italian and not only english or german as in other parts of Tuscany, and where you could hear your own voice in the silence...
A place still looks like as a border site...
[source: Colline oggi]

Maremma whose name sounds fascinating as the land it represents. This "Marittima Toscana", as he used to call Emanuele Repetti, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, descending from the mountains and through the wide plain covered with woods and an intermediate time, marshes, epidemics, poverty and wealth sporadic. Maremma of Prugnoli mushrooms, "because of the color excess," said Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti; Maremma of cork oaks, elms, sorting, oak, ash and screws scattered disorderly or married. This was the ancient landscape of one of the most beautiful areas of Tuscany. And among the woods, including ash trees, oaks and the cork, there was also, in ancient times, the progenitor of Sangiovese: the Vitis Silvestris. Probably the Sangiovese has Etruscan origins. It seems that, along with Trebbiano and Montepulciano, Sangiovese arise from selections made at the time of the Etruscans and their culture, I repeat, her mother proge-nitric is still in the woods of Tuscany. So says Professor Mario Fregoni known for its extensive wine culture. Today the Maremma is no longer covered by malaria and poverty; vineyards, along with other crops, gives it a pleasant, sunny, inviting, landscape that brings with it the story of a mythical past sometimes still present as the lives and in wine. The brightness of the sun, soil type, sea currents or the mountain: all these factors lead to passionate consumers a wide range of wines ranging from Ansonica to Vermentino of Maremma, the Malvasia, the Morellino, the Ciliegiolo , the Aleatico and many other varieties traditional and modern, to complete a strong wine culture history. To realize just think that in the last century the Agricultural Association of the Province of Grosseto gave awards in the form of certificates to the winemakers who had worked the vineyard with moral correctness and professionalism. Now no longer afraid that the sea level goes raising and the Tuscan beaches are no longer unstable "because of the motion of the eighth sphere of heaven," as the good Villani intended! Today on the coast there is tourism with a big passion for the sea, for the Maremma and her wines. This land can offer red wines suitable for long ageing in barrels, together with the types more usual and much appreciated by the consumer-tourists who spend their holidays on these picturesque shores. The Maremma of Grosseto is able to produce, from its vines, red wines with high thickness extraction through soil and climate of the area character, or because of the ability of producers. These wines come from vineyards studied with jurisdiction and followed by professionals technically updated, taking account of the modern international market. The luxury Italian Wines of the last decades, take origin from Maremma! Recently came also a new denomination of origin: the DOC Monteregioof Massa Marittima in its various expressions of white wine, red and aging. It does not stop here by the grower and Winemaker from Maremma! There is in fact collaborating with the Universities of Pisa and Florence. The Professor Scalabrelli from University of Pisa (source Maremma) is dedicated to the vineyards of the Maremma. The task is even so much as this land, rich in potential resources in terms of viticulture and "Luxury wine," promises a lot. We must however stress that the efforts are well worth the trouble and actual results already speak positively. The old trades in the Tyrrhenian Sea were always account for this part of central Italy as regards the wine market. The archaeological Etruscan testify that the wine market was present since ancient times. And it is this same market that persists and honors the passion and the ability of the inhabitants of these lands.
Giacomo Tachis
Who is Giacomo Tachis
Winemaker, pupil of the great Emile Peynaud was technical director for thirty years the cellars of the Marchesi Antinori. He was responsible for creating some wines that have deeply affected, in an innovative way, the Italian production and in particular Tuscany. Apply to all examples of Sassicaia, Tignanello and the slab, three red now entered in the recent history of our wine. Currently lends his expertise to some wineries and wine several bodies, including the Regional Institute of Vine and Wine in Palermo. Passionate bibliophile, owns an important collection of ancient texts argument wine.

Here I wanted to show you the document drawn up by the winemakers of Europe meeting in Florence by slow food organization, which represents a declaration of will and passion of people like me do this work animated by such feelings.
The winemaker personally takes care of the vineyard, the winery and the sale.
The wine of the winemaker is alive, gives pleasure, is the son of its territory and of his thought. Expression of authentic culture.
The winemaker considers the consumer a co-producer.
The winemaker keeps and shapes the landscape while protecting biodiversity and culture of its territory, which tells and supplements.
The winemaker as a farmer assumes the responsibility of preserving and improving the fertility of soil and the equilibrium of ecosystems.
The winemaker is committed to renounce the use of molecules and organisms and artificial synthesis with objective of protecting the living.
The winemaker governs the limit in all their commitments by seeking the good, never the best.
The winemaker assumes responsibility for its activities in compliance with environmental, health consumer and the destiny of their community and the earth.
The winemaker is committed to building and sustaining relationships with other tenants, farmers, producers food, cooks, universities and research institutions, educators and citizens in their communities and the world.
The winemaker practice transparency: it says what it does and does what it says.
The Vignerons d'Europe gathered in Florence are asking national and European authorities not to obstruct their work with appropriate industry regulations but not to their particularity.http://www.vignaiolievignerons.it

Benvenuto Brunello 2010!
On February, the 19th - 20th - 21th - 22th the producers of the Consortium of Brunello di Montalcino wine takes pleasure to present the new vintages of:
Brunello di Montalcino 2005 vintage
Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2004 vintage
Rosso di Montalcino 2008 vintage
Moscatello di Montalcino Sant'Antimo
The location is the historic fortress of Montalcino.
For those who are lucky to have received the invitation to attend the event, it is an important opportunity to breathe "the wine air”, meet producers, taste the wines, be told the course of the last harvest, knowing the stars awarded year 2008 and more ... to satisfy the curiosity of all the fans of Tuscan wines, and more particularly to His Excellency the Tuscan wine: the Brunello di Montalcino!