Guado al Melo
Italy – 
Tuscany – 
Castagneto Carducci – 
(LI)

THE COMPANY

Michele Scienza is inside the world of wine since his childhood: the great-grandparents and the grandparents were vinegrowers in Trentino, his father Attilio a viticulture professor. After a winemaking education, in 1998 he had the opportunity to start a new life-project in Bolgheri, together with his wife Annalisa: the idea was to create a completely sustainable artisan winery. The link with Bolgheri was born thanks to Attilio, who deeply studied the territory and its evolution in the wine scene in the last 30 years. Knowing every inch of Bolgheri, he found this small estate, hidden among woods and hills, located in the greatest area of the appelation and devoted to viticulture since the mid-nineteenth century. Michele’s work is dedicated to the production of territory wines, exploring ancient conceptions of wine-making. He personally takes care of vineyard and cellar with sensibility and skills, focusing the vinification on removing rather than adding. Today he is one of the most original interpreters of this area, with elegant and fine wines, an extraordinary personality which perfectly represent Bolgheri’s terroir.

Italy - 

Toscana

Bolgheri

The Bolgheri DOC, established in 1983, is evolving rapidly. The grape varieties grown in this area are cabernet, merlot and sangiovese for reds and viognier and vermentino for whites. The complexity of Bolgheri wines derives from a great variability of the soils present: at the geological level, a dual origin, on the one hand marine, due to the retreat of the sea, and on the other alluvial, linked to the deposits that watercourses from the hills have formed over the ages.

Italy - 

Toscana

Bolgheri

The Bolgheri DOC, established in 1983, is evolving rapidly. The grape varieties grown in this area are cabernet, merlot and sangiovese for reds and viognier and vermentino for whites. The complexity of Bolgheri wines derives from a great variability of the soils present: at the geological level, a dual origin, on the one hand marine, due to the retreat of the sea, and on the other alluvial, linked to the deposits that watercourses from the hills have formed over the ages.