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Colli di Serrapetrona was established in 1998 after a meeting of ten businessmen willing to produce wine thanks to the use of Black Vernaccia’s vine. After the purchase of some plots of land, the first vines were planted in the year 2000 and the last ones in 2002 for a total of twenty hectares. The wine cell was built In the year 2003: it hosted the first wine bottled by the Company. The land plots are located near the wine cells, at an altitude of 500-550 meters above the sea-level.
Since the beginning, the Company intends to give new life to Black Vernaccia: an ancient, precious vine, cultivated since ever in this hills. Today, the Company rediscovered the great potential that the wines produced with Black Vernaccia have. Modern techniques of wine production processes are used and there is a continue research on vines that is applied without forgetting tradition.
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