Il nostro blog, con notizie dalla cantina, ma soprattutto ricette da provare con i nostri vini, consigli sull’abbinamento cibo-vino e sul servizio migliore per apprezzare tutte le qualità del Morellino di Scansano e non solo!

acquacotta - ricetta

Acquacotta

L'acquacotta è una delle ricette maremmane più antiche della Maremma, la classica ricetta povera frutto dell'ingegno delle vecchie massaie che creavano un piatto quanto più sostanzioso con gli ingredienti offerti dall'orto e dall'aia. Oggi si aggiunge un tuorlo a persona ma in passato era facile che per quattro persone ci...

Work in progress at the winery

These days, in the vineyards, the vines already boast fully formed bunches of grapes. This is the time of the year when the grapes grow and slowly start to change colour, abandoning their green appearance. While we follow this growth in the vineyard, step by step, we're also getting ready in the cellar....

On Wineloverspage, American blogger Cornelius Duarte presents our Vin del Fattore

Blogger Cornelius Duarte recently wrote about our Governo Toscano IGT Vin del Fattore on  Wineloverspage.com. Here's the beginning of the post, just to stimulate your curiosity and appetite for more. Back to the Future in Italian Wine A friend in the Maremma area of western Tuscany, Sergio Bucci, who is a director of the...

Easter in Maremma – the sacred, the profane and the foodie

[caption id="attachment_2204" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Source Pixabay[/caption] Easter is coming up and brings a long list of traditions, some explicitly linked to religion, some less. And since it's a custom in Italy to celebrate the holidays around the table, here's a short report on how we celebrate Easter in Maremma, in ceremonies and with food...

Oscar del Vino: our Sicomoro nominated Best Wine with Excellent Quality and Price

We ended 2015 with a splendid tasting at Hotel Cavalieri in Rome, organised by Bibenda and guided by Daniela Scrobogna. It was a success: plenty of people came to taste our wines and discover the piece of Maremma we brought with us to Rome on that occasion. They asked many questions to our own Benedetto and Sergio, there was lots...

Events in November in Maremma, in the land of Morellino di Scansano

A new month has started, so here's the monthly post with all the events to take place in November in Maremma , especially in the production are of Morellino di Scansano (or close by, in any case) offering a good excuse to visit our territory in the coming weeks. The post will be added...

10 things to do in the autumn in Maremma

[caption id="attachment_2018" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Laguna di Orbetello - photo by Marco Bellucci (modified version, the original was had a portrait layout)[/caption] Maremma is beautiful all year round. Perhaps it's because it is scarcely urbanized, perhaps it's because the territory is varied, and offers sea, hills and mountains too, with the Amiata. So...

A documentary on Morellino di Scansano

Today we present a documentary on Morellino di Scansano, titled Morellino di Scansano, un vino dalle antiche radici. In the first part, the history of our area is presented, starting with the Etruscans who were the first to tend the vineyards and produce wines in our area - and they even exported...

October events in Maremma, in the land of Morellino di Scansano

[caption id="attachment_1941" align="alignleft" width="300"] Porcini - photo by H.P. Brinkmann[/caption] Autumn has just begun and the harvest comes to an end. While the first rain arrives and the countryside turns to red and gold, here is a list of food, nature and art events in Maremma, taking place in the land of Morellino...

Our Vignabenefizio featured on Spaziovino

A few days ago,  Spaziovino.com featured an article on our Morellino di Scansano Vignabenefizio. This Russian website is currently running a project called Project DOC 365 where every day of the year they present a different wine. For each wine they also present the area of production, its history, and finally the wine itself. So...

“I luoghi del tempo” returns in Maremma, a festival dedicated to little-known places

I luoghi del tempo, the festival dedicated to little-known places returns with its usual format that aims at enhancing unusual and little know places in Maremma, creating events with intellectuals, writers, artists, actors, musicians and journalists. As in the previous editions, these charming places will be the background for guided walks,...

Canti del Maggio, an ancient tradition in Maremma

Every year, in Maremma, on the night between the 30th of April and the 1st of May a very special tradition is celebrated, called Canti del Maggio [Songs of May]. On this occasion, in the countryside, following the tradition of Maremma, groups of people move from one estate to the other,...

Buying our Morellino di Scansano online

[caption id="attachment_1409" align="alignleft" width="300"] Acquista online il nostro Morellino di Scansano Docg e gli altri vini dei Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano[/caption] We often receive emails or messages on Facebook from Morellino di Scansano enthusiasts who as us where they can find our wines. Very often they have visited our winery, perhaps when on...

Idee regalo per Natale firmate Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano

Di solito i bambini, in questi giorni scrivono la loro lettera a Babbo Natale, è tradizione. Ma lo sapevate che nei mesi passati Babbo Natale ha pubblicato annunci di lavoro ai prodotti che si candidavano come perfetti regali di Natale, come idee regalo da non perdere? Nell'immagine qui sopra ci...

A special award for some special elderly members

[caption id="attachment_1392" align="alignleft" width="300"] The awards prepared for our elderly members[/caption] There's a saying in Maremma that literally goes like this «An old man in a corner will do much more than a young man in a field», meaning that experience and wisdom often has a greater effect than physical strength. This...

Christmas in Maremma

[caption id="attachment_1312" align="alignleft" width="300"] Brunella (in the middle) in a picture taken by blogger Davide Arnesano at the end of a dinner at our winery, last year. To her left, Monica, the wife of our vice president Paolo Gobbi[/caption] With the holidays coming up, we've thought of asking our talented...

Scansano’s Porta Grossetana

From time to time, we enjoy telling you about the beauties in our area, both with regards to archaeology, landscape and architecture. Today we will tell you the story of Scansano's Porta Grossetana, which you can find at the entrance of the historic centre of town, entering from Piazza Garibaldi. As many...

A visit to the Roman ruins in Aia Nova

[caption id="attachment_1091" align="alignleft" width="300"] Oggi come 2000 anni fa, l'Aia Nova era circondata da vigneti. Già all'epoca, attorno a questa villa romana sorgevano fattorie e campi coltivati[/caption] Last weekend, the Luoghi del Tempo festival offered the chance for a visit to the Aia Nova villa. The meeting began with a guided visit to the...

Our Vignaioli interviewed on television

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Click on the image to watch the video. Our interview starts at 26 e 40''[/caption] Our own Sergio Bucci and Benedetto Grechi were interviewed by Adele Di Benedetto within the tourism television programme La Scia Bianca, which was broadcasted on  Gold TV Italia. Here's the video for those of you who...

Portraits from Vinitaly 2014

A small photo gallery to remember the four days of Vinitaly 2014. The 48th edition was a very intense one, full of meetings, moments in which to consolidate the relationships developed with our distribution and create new ones. Always focusing on the Ho.Re.Ca. market, across Italy, and of course on...

Spring has come in Maremma

Spring has just began, even though in the past few days it didn’t seem so. Winter has ended, and that as well was quite peculiar. We’ve asked Massimo Moscatelli and Alessandro Fiorini, respectively cellar master and agronomist at Cantina dei Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano, to tell us what is...

2013 vintage – an interview to Alessandro Fiorini

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Alessandro Fiorini controlla le uve arrivate in cantina[/caption] The 2013 harvest has just finished for Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano. Now that all the grapes are at last in the cellar, we can make a comment regarding this vintage. In this interview, we’ve asked Alessandro Fiorini, our agronomist,...

Morellino Classica Festival 2014

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Il sito etrusco di Ghiaccio Forte, dove si terrà l'ormai tradizionale concerto all'alba, il prossimo 6 luglio[/caption] This Saturday, April 26th, just like last year, the now traditional classical music festival will be prsented to the public in our headquarters. Concerts will be held in some of...

Roggiano wins the Gold Medal in Vienna

Today we're celebrating! Our  Morellino di Scansano Roggiano 2012 - the wine which we has always been the most representative of our work, has won the Gold Medal in Vienna on the occasion of the International Wine Challenge AWC. Cin cin!http://cantinadelmorellino.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AWC_Medaille2013_GOLD_LORES_zps658e384f-1.jpgAWC_Medaille2013_GOLD_LORES_zps658e384f.jpg/home/vignaioli/public_html/wp-content/uploads/AWC_Medaille2013_GOLD_LORES_zps658e384f.jpg741|1517medaglia d'oro al Roggiano dall'AWC

The harvest begins with our Viognier grapes

Today the harvest began with our Viognier grapes which, for the third year will also serve to produce our Viognier Toscano Igt, made entirely with this variety. Today we also launched our new press, one of our latest investments with the objective of constantly increasing the quality of our wines....

Wine + cooperation + best practices = a recipe for success?

Wine, cooperation, best practices... could this be the recipe for success? We will talk about it in two days time,  on Saturday 29th June at 10 am in Scansano's Teatro Castagnoli, within a workshop in which some representatives of both cooperatives and wine will participate, together with Florence's and Verona's mayors, respectively Matteo Renzi and Flavio...

Our investments continue

Work in progress Here are a couple of pictures which were taken yesterday, in the morning, in order to tell you about our new project: we are renovating the area where the grapes will be received when our members-vintners will deliver the fruit of their harvest. Works began at the...

If a coop works like (or better) than a private business

Here's a detailed article covering our coop on the pages of Italian wine journal Corriere Vinicolo. It all began from our project of offering private producers 100 euros per quintal for their grapes. We wrote about it here. Unfortunately the article is only available in Italian but just in case,...

#Aperitaly Twitter-aperitif

#Aperitaly Twitter-aperitif - Monday 8th April at 5,30 pm - Pavilion D, stand D3.http://cantinadelmorellino.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/aperitaly_zps0beeec26-1.jpgaperitaly_zps0beeec26.jpg/home/vignaioli/public_html/wp-content/uploads/aperitaly_zps0beeec26.jpg756|1523aperitaly_zps0beeec26

The photo-gallery from the 40th anniversary of our winery!

At last, here are the photos taken on the occasion of the dinner during which we celebrated with our members the 40th anniversary of our winery, a dinner organised in Scansano just before Christmas. The evening, as Chiara Farusi so finely described, saw all the people who have made the story of this cooperative,...

Sicomoro and Roggiano “starring” in Il segreto degli alberi

Here are a few photographs shot during the filming of  "Il segreto degli alberi", Alessandro Tofanelli's new movie, in the cinemas across Italy. The film is set inside the Parco Migliarino San Rossore - Tofanelli has directed many documentaries on nature. Among the protagonists, Raffaella Rea and Stefano Dionisi and...

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On Wineloverspage, American blogger Cornelius Duarte presents our Vin del Fattore

Blogger Cornelius Duarte recently wrote about our Governo Toscano IGT Vin del Fattore on  Wineloverspage.com. Here's the beginning of the post, just to stimulate your curiosity and appetite for more. Back to the Future in Italian Wine A friend in the Maremma area of western Tuscany, Sergio Bucci, who is a director of the...

uova decorate per pasqua

Easter in Maremma – the sacred, the profane and the foodie

[caption id="attachment_2204" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Source Pixabay[/caption] Easter is coming up and brings a long list of traditions, some explicitly linked to religion, some less. And since it's a custom in Italy to celebrate the holidays around the table, here's a short report on how we celebrate Easter in Maremma, in ceremonies and with food...

Oscar del Vino: our Sicomoro nominated Best Wine with Excellent Quality and Price

We ended 2015 with a splendid tasting at Hotel Cavalieri in Rome, organised by Bibenda and guided by Daniela Scrobogna. It was a success: plenty of people came to taste our wines and discover the piece of Maremma we brought with us to Rome on that occasion. They asked many questions to our own Benedetto and Sergio, there was lots...

Events in November in Maremma, in the land of Morellino di Scansano

A new month has started, so here's the monthly post with all the events to take place in November in Maremma , especially in the production are of Morellino di Scansano (or close by, in any case) offering a good excuse to visit our territory in the coming weeks. The post will be added...

laguna di orbedello

10 things to do in the autumn in Maremma

[caption id="attachment_2018" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Laguna di Orbetello - photo by Marco Bellucci (modified version, the original was had a portrait layout)[/caption] Maremma is beautiful all year round. Perhaps it's because it is scarcely urbanized, perhaps it's because the territory is varied, and offers sea, hills and mountains too, with the Amiata. So...

A documentary on Morellino di Scansano

Today we present a documentary on Morellino di Scansano, titled Morellino di Scansano, un vino dalle antiche radici. In the first part, the history of our area is presented, starting with the Etruscans who were the first to tend the vineyards and produce wines in our area - and they even exported...

October events in Maremma, in the land of Morellino di Scansano

[caption id="attachment_1941" align="alignleft" width="300"] Porcini - photo by H.P. Brinkmann[/caption] Autumn has just begun and the harvest comes to an end. While the first rain arrives and the countryside turns to red and gold, here is a list of food, nature and art events in Maremma, taking place in the land of Morellino...

Our Vignabenefizio featured on Spaziovino

A few days ago,  Spaziovino.com featured an article on our Morellino di Scansano Vignabenefizio. This Russian website is currently running a project called Project DOC 365 where every day of the year they present a different wine. For each wine they also present the area of production, its history, and finally the wine itself. So...

“I luoghi del tempo” returns in Maremma, a festival dedicated to little-known places

I luoghi del tempo, the festival dedicated to little-known places returns with its usual format that aims at enhancing unusual and little know places in Maremma, creating events with intellectuals, writers, artists, actors, musicians and journalists. As in the previous editions, these charming places will be the background for guided walks,...

Canti del Maggio, an ancient tradition in Maremma

Every year, in Maremma, on the night between the 30th of April and the 1st of May a very special tradition is celebrated, called Canti del Maggio [Songs of May]. On this occasion, in the countryside, following the tradition of Maremma, groups of people move from one estate to the other,...

Agnello, tradizioni pasquali e Morellino di Scansano

Da un capo all’altro dell’Italia e non solo, è tradizione, a Pasqua, mangiare carne di agnello. La tradizione di mangiare l’agnello a Pasqua in realtà deriva dalla Pesach, la Pasqua ebraica. La Pesach ricorda l’esodo e la liberazione del popolo israelita dall’Egitto e il sacrificio dell’agnello si celebrava il 14...

Buying our Morellino di Scansano online

[caption id="attachment_1409" align="alignleft" width="300"] Acquista online il nostro Morellino di Scansano Docg e gli altri vini dei Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano[/caption] We often receive emails or messages on Facebook from Morellino di Scansano enthusiasts who as us where they can find our wines. Very often they have visited our winery, perhaps when on...

Le targhe preparate per i nostri soci anziani

A special award for some special elderly members

[caption id="attachment_1392" align="alignleft" width="300"] The awards prepared for our elderly members[/caption] There's a saying in Maremma that literally goes like this «An old man in a corner will do much more than a young man in a field», meaning that experience and wisdom often has a greater effect than physical strength. This...

Il Natale in Maremma

Con l'arrivo delle festività, abbiamo pensato di farci raccontare il Natale in Maremma e le tradizioni festive dalla nostra Brunella, che ci allieta in cantina con i piatti più tipici, soprattutto in vendemmia, quando si pranza tutti assieme, o nelle occasioni speciali. Proprio durante questa chiacchierata Brunella è al lavoro...

Christmas in Maremma

[caption id="attachment_1312" align="alignleft" width="300"] Brunella (in the middle) in a picture taken by blogger Davide Arnesano at the end of a dinner at our winery, last year. To her left, Monica, the wife of our vice president Paolo Gobbi[/caption] With the holidays coming up, we've thought of asking our talented...

Scansano’s Porta Grossetana

From time to time, we enjoy telling you about the beauties in our area, both with regards to archaeology, landscape and architecture. Today we will tell you the story of Scansano's Porta Grossetana, which you can find at the entrance of the historic centre of town, entering from Piazza Garibaldi. As many...

Podere Aia Nova

A visit to the Roman ruins in Aia Nova

[caption id="attachment_1091" align="alignleft" width="300"] Oggi come 2000 anni fa, l'Aia Nova era circondata da vigneti. Già all'epoca, attorno a questa villa romana sorgevano fattorie e campi coltivati[/caption] Last weekend, the Luoghi del Tempo festival offered the chance for a visit to the Aia Nova villa. The meeting began with a guided visit to the...

Our Vignaioli interviewed on television

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Click on the image to watch the video. Our interview starts at 26 e 40''[/caption] Our own Sergio Bucci and Benedetto Grechi were interviewed by Adele Di Benedetto within the tourism television programme La Scia Bianca, which was broadcasted on  Gold TV Italia. Here's the video for those of you who...

Morellino Classica Festival

Morellino Classica Festival 2014

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Il sito etrusco di Ghiaccio Forte, dove si terrà l'ormai tradizionale concerto all'alba, il prossimo 6 luglio[/caption] This Saturday, April 26th, just like last year, the now traditional classical music festival will be prsented to the public in our headquarters. Concerts will be held in some of...

Portraits from Vinitaly 2014

A small photo gallery to remember the four days of Vinitaly 2014. The 48th edition was a very intense one, full of meetings, moments in which to consolidate the relationships developed with our distribution and create new ones. Always focusing on the Ho.Re.Ca. market, across Italy, and of course on...

Primavera in Maremma

Spring has come in Maremma

Spring has just began, even though in the past few days it didn’t seem so. Winter has ended, and that as well was quite peculiar. We’ve asked Massimo Moscatelli and Alessandro Fiorini, respectively cellar master and agronomist at Cantina dei Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano, to tell us what is...

2013 vintage – an interview to Alessandro Fiorini

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Alessandro Fiorini controlla le uve arrivate in cantina[/caption] The 2013 harvest has just finished for Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano. Now that all the grapes are at last in the cellar, we can make a comment regarding this vintage. In this interview, we’ve asked Alessandro Fiorini, our agronomist,...

Roggiano wins the Gold Medal in Vienna

Today we're celebrating! Our  Morellino di Scansano Roggiano 2012 - the wine which we has always been the most representative of our work, has won the Gold Medal in Vienna on the occasion of the International Wine Challenge AWC. Cin cin!

The harvest begins with our Viognier grapes

Today the harvest began with our Viognier grapes which, for the third year will also serve to produce our Viognier Toscano Igt, made entirely with this variety. Today we also launched our new press, one of our latest investments with the objective of constantly increasing the quality of our wines....

Wine + cooperation + best practices = a recipe for success?

Wine, cooperation, best practices... could this be the recipe for success? We will talk about it in two days time,  on Saturday 29th June at 10 am in Scansano's Teatro Castagnoli, within a workshop in which some representatives of both cooperatives and wine will participate, together with Florence's and Verona's mayors, respectively Matteo Renzi and Flavio...

nuova area ricezione

Our investments continue

Work in progress Here are a couple of pictures which were taken yesterday, in the morning, in order to tell you about our new project: we are renovating the area where the grapes will be received when our members-vintners will deliver the fruit of their harvest. Works began at the...

corriere vinicolo

If a coop works like (or better) than a private business

Here's a detailed article covering our coop on the pages of Italian wine journal Corriere Vinicolo. It all began from our project of offering private producers 100 euros per quintal for their grapes. We wrote about it here. Unfortunately the article is only available in Italian but just in case,...

The photo-gallery from the 40th anniversary of our winery!

At last, here are the photos taken on the occasion of the dinner during which we celebrated with our members the 40th anniversary of our winery, a dinner organised in Scansano just before Christmas. The evening, as Chiara Farusi so finely described, saw all the people who have made the story of this cooperative,...

Sicomoro and Roggiano “starring” in Il segreto degli alberi

Here are a few photographs shot during the filming of  "Il segreto degli alberi", Alessandro Tofanelli's new movie, in the cinemas across Italy. The film is set inside the Parco Migliarino San Rossore - Tofanelli has directed many documentaries on nature. Among the protagonists, Raffaella Rea and Stefano Dionisi and...

Some thoughts with reference to Art. 62

Christmas is the time of the year in which most sales are concentrated. This obviously is also the case for wine, chosen as a present by those who want to donate not only the pleasure of a drink, but also the emotions of an evening spent in company, sharing a...

Come taste our wines in the Winebars and wineshops of the Vinarius association

We are very happy to inform you that together with other wineries who participate in the Maremma Wine Shire, during the month of October we will take part in a special event with the prestigious  Associazione Enoteche Italiane Vinarius. This association, founded in 1981 to promote winebars and wineshops as a...

A short mid-harvest report

Today it's raining in Maremma and we have stopped gathering the grapes, so here's a short mid-harvest report. We are indeed halfway through the 2012 harvest and the vine-dressers, our vignaioli, are all at work, following the indications of our agronomist with regards to what vineyards need to be harvested...

Our Bianco di Pitigliano Rasenno 2011 reviewed in Il mio vino USA

This cooperative winery, founded in 1972, today has a list of 150 member growers farming an extensive and varied range of terrains. The member growers’ vineyards fall within the Bianco di Pitigliano DOC zone. THE WINE Vibrant pale straw shot through with pale green highlights; fragrantly intense apple-like aromatics lifted...

Of music and Morellino

Some make wine rest in barrels while music is playing in the cellar, others accompany the growth of vines with music, right in the vineyards. Music is important also to us so here are a few events that see us involved. In the past few weeks we've had the pleasure...

Vinitaly 2012 – some thoughts after the fair

Finally, our short account on Vinitaly 2012, a fair which has brought us success and lots of satisfaction. Yes, there were all the problems of which everyone has spoken in the last few days, such as those with the internet connection or with the phones, completely isolated for hours. And...

Vinitaly 2012 coming up

Almost ready for Vinitaly 2012 in Verona, which this year will take place from March 25th to March 28th, a chance of dates since it's starting on a Sunday and ending on a Wednesday, with one less day. As last year, we will be in Pavillion D, the one dedicated to Maremma, in...

Savoury Cantucci with Pecorino and hazelnuts

photo and recipe by Elisa Ceccuzzi Cantucci and Vin Santo have always represented, in Tuscany as well as in the rest of Italy, a delightful conclusion to a meal. The ritual of dipping (pucciare) a cantuccio into wine or coffee has been copied everywhere, even abroad. How about if, for...

Maremma Toscana Doc Capoccia – the new label

Here's our new label: Maremma Toscana Doc Capoccia 2011. This wine is obtained from Ciliegiolo and Alicante grapes and falls into the newborn Maremma Toscana Doc denomination, its first authorised vintage being 2011. On top of Morellino di Scansano, produced with Sangiovese, we thus have a new red wine, made with...

Our wines in the 2012 guides

Here's are the reviews our wines from the Linea Vignaioli received in the 2012 editions of the wine guides publish by Gambero Rosso and L'Espresso, as well as on Slow Wine and the Vini di Veronelli guide. In all these publications, there were great accomplishments, both for our Morellino di...

Another year of growth for the winery

On Friday January 27th, on the occasion of the ordinary assembly of the coop's members the balance statement of the year closed on August 31 2011 was approved. During the same meeting, the members renewed the Board of Directors. These were two important moments for the winery which continues its...

Let the music begin

Here we are with a brand new space completing the new image of Cantina dei Vignaioli del Morellino di Scansano. After our renovated website and the new logo and labels, here is a blog. Why a blog? Because we believe it's the most direct way to tell those who will...