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Colline di Valdiceno · Family grown since 1962

Verranto Estate

Forty hectares of hillside Sangiovese on limestone and old clay. Three generations, one cellar, no hurry.

Est. 1962 Third generation Estate bottled
Evening sun over the Verranto hillside rows
The upper rows at seven in the evening, late September.

One year on the hill

The vintage, told slowly

Scroll through a single flight over the estate. Four chapters, the same four we have kept since 1962.

Aerial view over the Verranto vineyard rows at golden hour
I

The land

Forty hectares of southeast rows on limestone and old clay. The morning sun reaches the upper parcel first, and the sea wind arrives by four.

II

The harvest

Every cluster is cut by hand in late September, row by row, in the cool hours before ten. Nothing mechanical has ever touched these vines.

III

The cellar

The wine goes below the house, into the cellar our grandfather dug in 1962. Large oak, thick stone walls, a constant thirteen degrees.

IV

The pour

Two years later, sometimes five, the work comes down to one glass, poured slowly at the long table where it was grown.

The wines

Three bottlings. Nothing else.

We bottle what the hill gives us and no more. Around 38,000 bottles in a generous year, closer to 30,000 in a stingy one.

The lower green parcel of the estate at dusk

Trebbiano · Malvasia

Bianco di Collina 2023

From the cool lower parcel by the stream. Green pear, chamomile, a saline finish that asks for another glass.

€19Taste it here
Autumn light across the mid slope Sangiovese rows

Sangiovese

Verranto Rosso 2021

The estate in a bottle. Sour cherry, dried violet, worn leather. Eighteen months in large old oak, unfined.

€28Taste it here
Oak barrels resting in the Verranto cellar

Sangiovese Grosso

Vigna Alta Riserva 2019

Only from the oldest rows, planted 1968. Dark plum, tobacco leaf, crushed stone. Thirty months in oak, released when ready.

€62Taste it here

Below the house

“My father used to say the cellar does the real work. Our job is to grow good grapes, then get out of the way for two years.”

Elena Verranto, third generation winemaker
The barrel corridor of the 1962 cellar under warm light
1962Cellar dug by hand into the limestone
13°CConstant, winter and August alike
25 hlLarge old oak casks, never new barrique
The row that leads up to the tasting room and farmhouse

The tasting room

Come sit at the long table

Tastings are seated, unhurried, and led by the family or the cellar hands. Five wines, bread from the village, olive oil from our own trees. Plan for ninety minutes.

Thursday to Saturday
11:00 to 18:00
Sunday
11:00 to 15:00
Monday to Wednesday
By appointment
Harvest weeks (late Sept)
Closed, we are picking
Book a tasting · €25 per guest

Tasting fee waived with any purchase of six bottles.

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