MONTERUFOLI WINES
MONTERUFOLI
Experience information
The tour begins with a guided tour of the Monterufoli winery and ends with a tasting of Monterufoli products, a company belonging to the prestigious wine group Tenute del Cerro.
The tasting will take place in the tasting room and will be accompanied by a selection of locally produced cold cuts and cheeses.
The following wines will be tasted: Monterufoli Poggio Miniera Val di Cornia Rosso DOC, Monterufoli Pian di Seta Vermentino di Toscana IGT and Monterufoli Vermentino di Toscana IGT.
This tour gives all visitors a unique opportunity to get to know more closely this beautiful winery located in the heart of the Tuscan coast.
Tasting products
VERMENTINO DI TOSCANA IGT
POGGIO MINIERA VAL DI CORNIA ROSSO DOCG
Host information
Monterufoli, located in the province of Pisa, seems to come out of a dream: more than a thousand hectares of unspoiled nature, ancient trees, a myriad of hot springs and beautiful vineyards, from which are produced: the Vermentino di Toscana IGT and the selection Poggio Miniera Val di Cornia DOC.
The farm is located where once there was an ancient deposit of the mine of magnesite and lignite, especially chalcedony, which were extracted from the Opificio delle pietre dure in Florence since the fourteenth century.
Until 1929, it was a cableway and railway station for the mine trains, which had been closed for over half a century. Once upon a time the subjects of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca lived here, the famous character of Dante's Divine Comedy, the ancient lord of these places.
The Monterufoli Estate covers an area of 1,030 hectares of hills, almost conforming to a single body and ranging between 150 and 500 meters above sea level.
On the whole area there are large wooded areas for a total of 900 hectares, where in addition to the predominant species of oak and holm oak there are the typical formations of the Mediterranean as myrtle, arbutus, mastic, juniper and heather.