La Biagiola Winery, Sorano

Modern winery in a ancient "terroir" with Sangiovese and Vermentino grapes. Take chance to visit also the inner archaeological park.

The Tuscany between Sorano and Sovana never ceases to amaze me, and since the time of the Etruscans that wine and oil have been grown, and so it happens to a young archaeologist to find an Etruscan construction under the rows of vines on which an imperial Roman construction and on which an eighteenth-century grange has arisen, different techniques and construction materials but the aim is to work the land and over the centuries to obtain precious oil and wine. And Luca Martino Nejrotti is the excellent archaeologist who today with great care showed me the excavation techniques and the surprising results and among these the discovery of a particular cocciopesto which the owner cellar then adopted as amphorae to keep their magnificent wine, pity I could not taste it.