2019 Tenuta di Ghizzano 'Il Ghizzano' Costa Toscana IGT, Tuscany, Italy

ABOUT THIS WINE

Grapes are hand-picked and meticulous sorted. Only indigenous yeasts are used for both the alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. Aged for several months prior to release.

ABOUT THIS PRODUCER

The Venerosi Pesciolini family settled in the Colline Pisane area in the 14th century. For 26 generations, the family has been growing vines, olive trees, and cereals with a deep respect for tradition and terroir. Since 1996 Countess Ginevra Venerosi Pesciolini has run the estate.

As the Italian wine renaissance began to explode in the early 1990s, Ghizzano's wines quickly shot to the top of fine wine lists in Italian restaurants around the world, partially thanks to its collaboration with renowned Italian enologist Carlo Ferrini.

In 2003, Ginevra launched the farm's first biodynamic conversion; a radical idea in the staid circles of Tuscan winemaking. "I like to consider myself a 'natural winemaker,"' says Ginevra. "In other words, I try to allow my wines to express their terroir as purely and as honestly as possible.” Ginevra played a leading role in The Associazione Grandi Cru della Costa Toscana (the association of Tuscan coast winemakers), and is helping to establish the Terra di Pisa appellation.