First VIN in 1998. Planting density is 7,000 to 10,000 plants/ha.
The vines are 10 to 25 years old. Maceration and alcoholic fermentation take place in stainless steel tanks for 18 to 21 days. The wine is aged in 300L and 500L medium toasted French oak barrels for approximately 8 months.
The wine is lightly filtered and then bottled. It is then aged for another six months before being shipped. Giusti e Zanza is a cantina that is pursuing the possibilities of new Tuscan wines in a completely new region, competing with existing famous regions such as Chianti, Montalcino, and Bolgheri. Fauglia, located in the northwest of Tuscany, near Livorno and Pisa, is located on the left bank of the Arno River and has a climate similar to that of Bordeaux's Médoc. In 1995, Paolo Giusti purchased an old cantina with a site of 35 hectares. The three people at the core of the winemaking process are the owner Paolo Giusti, a former architect, Ms. Monica Massoni, who has been helping Paolo for about 10 years, and Ms. Paola Carella, an enologist who joined in 2009, and they are always facing the fields and grapes.
Currently, grapes are cultivated on 17 hectares, and all fully ripe grapes are harvested by hand. The soil is a mixture of sand, limestone, and clay, and the outstanding drainage is the key point for this cantina to produce high quality wine. Fermentation is carried out in cement tanks that are not temperature-controlled in order to maintain natural conditions, and is carried out for 18 to 21 days. In addition, the grape seeds are removed during fermentation to reduce the bitterness of the wine, and other unique ingenuity is used. Most of the aging is done in barrels from France. Currently, the wines are featured on the wine lists of many top restaurants and have been highly praised by various wine journalists and wine magazines. Dulcamara, Belcore, Nemorino, and Adine are named after the central characters in Gaetano Donizetti's opera "The Elixir of Love." The wine labels were designed by the late Ettore Sottsass, a master of Italian industrial design.
The 2015 vintage was certified organic.
(Except NemorinoBianco, EU organic certified, SuoloeSalute)