A perfect area since the time of the Etruscans. This is the thread that binds the companies of the Montescudaio Consortium. Fourteen wine gems inserted in a Tuscan landscape influenced by the sea. The D.O.C., in effect, includes all municipalities in the Val di Cecina, Volterra excluded. A thousand–year story that is remembered by the "Cinerario di Montescudaio" (seventh century BC) depicting a funeral banquet with a large "crater" vase in which wine was mixed with water, according to the Greek custom.
The history of the vine in this area winds through centuries to the present days. In 1968 the Festival of Wine was founded, while in 1977 the D.O.C. was obtained with two types: a red wine based on Sangiovese, Trebbiano, Malvasia, and other varieties like Canaiolo and Colorino, and a white wine made from Trebbiano, Malvasia and Vermentino, which can also be produced as Vin Santo, dry, semi–dry or sweet (specifications which, since 1999, have been providing for the use of the so–called "innovative" vines like Cabernet, for example).
In these forty years, the Consortium has established itself and has achieved important objectives by bringing the name of this area on the international scene thanks to quality products. In recent years, then, the desire to make talk about Montescudaio and its territory out of the local and regional context has become more and more accentuated.
An ambitious program that rests its foundation on the willingness of producers to work in concert with local governments and with the present associative realities. A solid path that has given, up to date, significant results.
