Tenuta Montauto

The roads to Tenuta Montauto are ancient, they run through and lead to places far removed from the flow of traffic. Here Tuscany is united with upper Lazio by Etruscan memory and nature. Vulci on one side, Manciano, Saturnia and Pitigliano on the other. The winery’s coat of arms, with the initial of Montauto crossed with the hook of the cowboy, signified the pioneering spirit of making white wines in a land traditionally considered suitable only for reds. An oenological pioneering spirit that is already written in the name of Enos, the grandfather, which is now also the name of Tenuta Montauto’s Maremma Sauvignon, which is successful all over the world. At Tenuta Montauto they are definitely lucky. There is nothing around them: just the silence as far as the eye can see of the thick Maremma woods, the wind, the hares and the hawks. There are no factories, no inhabited centres, no neighbours, no roads other than the provincial road of Campigliola. An isolation that allows them to make choices without compromise, in total freedom and an absoluteness that comes from being released from the world. In addition to their isolation, they are also fortunate in the providential sea air that always blows in from the west. You can’t see the sea, but you can feel it in the wind that blows from Capalbio, which is only 10 km from here as the crow flies. A wind that dries the vines and sanitises them from humidity.