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Castello del Terriccio has a thousand-year history. Between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the bishop of Pisa, nephew of Pope Boniface VIII, in the name of the Roman Church granted the estate to the Gaetani counts in emphyteusis.
The modern
The modern history of soil begins in the first half of the 1900s, when the estate was acquired by the Marquises Serafini Ferri. With the important land improvement interventions carried out in the twenties, the Serafini Ferri brought the company to a physiognomy very close to the current one. Until the seventies Castello del Terriccio was famous for its cereal activity, so much so that it conquered the European record for the production of maize in second harvest.It is to Gian Annibale Rossi of Medelana that Castello del Terriccio owes the notoriety and importance it currently enjoys in the world as a winery dedicated to the production of wines of the highest quality. After inheriting the company in 1975, he decides to refound it, consecrating it as a place of research for excellence in vineyards and wines, keeping the ancient character intact and defending a territorial heritage of great value and extraordinary beauty.Today the property has passed to Vittorio Piozzo di Rosignano Rossi di Medelana, the only grandson of the cavalier Gian Annibale. Also descended from noble families with large landholdings in the country that date back to past centuries, Vittorio Piozzo di Rosignano has left behind his past in finance to devote himself to the management of the family's agricultural activities and now to the direct management of Castello of the Topsoil.
The size of the property made it possible during the planting phase of the vineyards to choose the most suitable land for the characteristics of the soil, dew point, exposure to sea breezes and exposure to light. The vines are in fact exposed so that the sea acts as a mirror and therefore the light arrives there as a reflection, with a longer duration than the direct one of the sun. The soils are those in which the mineral elements, including iron and copper, mix with a medium-textured texture with a balanced interaction of sands and silt. All these factors, which together prove to be determined in giving the red wines of Castello del Terriccio the great structure and the achievement of very high levels of polyphenols.