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PHOTO: Rolando, Flavio
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The
Regola farm is located in an area where the Etruscans prospered for
centuries. The Cecina Valley has a temperate climate, the land is
fertile , sunny and favourably caressed by the breezes of the
Tyrrhenian sea (5 kms). The Etruscans chose this area to grow vines
from which they obtained a pleasant, full-bodied wine preserved in the
numerous amphoras discovered on the site.The Cecina Valley was part of
the Etruscan territory of Volterra one of the most flourishingand
prominent city-states of ancient Etruria.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Nuti family purchased a
small amount of land in the locality of La Regola in the Commune of
Riparbella to produce a little wine and olive oil for family
consumption. Great-grandfather, Corrado, a blacksmith was partial to
drinking a little “diluted wine” while he hammered away at the
horseshoes on the hot forge. The first Regola wine, more than 30
demijohns! of a diluted version of genuine wine was thus produced in
the small cellar below the house. Grandfather Nilo inherited his
father’s trade as a blacksmith but also began farming in the 30’s and
purchased the first wheat threshers and tractors to plough the land.
Father Rolando continued in his father’s footsteps and still works as
a farmer throughout the provinces of Pisa and Livorno. Rolando works
and offers his expertise to well-knowm vineyards such as the Ornellaia
Estate , the Antinori Estate in Bolgheri, the Terriccio Estate , the Cusona
Holding in San Gimignano (SI) owned by Prince Guicciardini-Strozzi,
the Querceto Estate owned by Marquess Ginori-Lisci,and
last but not least, the Bolgheri Vineyard owned by the Marquess Incisa
della Rocchetta the producer of the legendary “Sassicaia”.
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PHOTO: Luca
and Flavio Nuti |
Luca and Flavio have naturally inherited a love for the land, genuine
and simple products such as wine.
Luca is the agronomist and the executive producer of the Farm and Flavio, although a lawyer, takes care of the
administration and marketing of the wines abroad. When Luca finished
his studies at the University in Florence he decided to transform the
preexisting vineyard which still produced wine for the family into a
“real” vineyard .As well as the existing vines of Sangiovese, Trebbiano and Tuscan
Vermentino, he planted new vines and grafted new vines from his
great-grandfather’s vines with new clones of Cabernet-Sauvignon,Merlot,
Sauvignon blanc and
Chardonnay, besides native vines of Sangiovese, Trebbiano and
Vermentino.
Supervised and advised by an expert -before the enologist dr. Giovanni
Bailo, and now to leave from 2006 of the famous enologist dr. Luca D'
Attoma-Luca
attentively oversees the phases of production including
the picking of the grapes, the wine-making(first in steel vats and
then in oak barrels produced by the best companies in France) and the
bottling.
The company's aims are at least to increase up to 20 the current
Vitata surface by about 14 hectares installing new vineyards above all
to base of Sangiovese and Vermentino, so as to reconstitute the most
possible the Ampelographical base of the origins.
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