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Tenuta Sette Cieli: tasting Indaco and Scipio
Tenuta Sette Cieli: tasting Indaco and Scipio
Sette Cieli is an exciting winery driven by the young minds of Ambrogio Cremona Ratti and Elena Pozzolini. James Button compares the estate's two top wines from the 2016 and 2017 vintages. James ButtonJuly 4, 2021 Owner Ambrogio Cremona Ratti and CEO/winemaker Elena Pozzolini. Credit: Tenuta Sette Cieli Situated in Monteverdi Marittimo in the province of Pisa, Tenuta Sette Cieli is one of the highest estates in the area, and named as such with the translation meaning ‘estate of the seven skies’. A winding three-mile dirt track leads up to a hilltop at around 400 metres above sea level,...
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Tenuta Sette Cieli: bringing a new coolness to Super Tuscans
Tenuta Sette Cieli: bringing a new coolness to Super Tuscans
Italian fine wine may be at the top of the investment pyramid right now, but have consumers and critics started to tire of the Super Tuscans? Justin Keay seems to think so, arguing that wine drinkers are moving away from varieties and styles that are concentrated and oaky. Just as he was putting that theory to bed along comes the wines of Tenuta Sette Cieli, made by the talented winemaker Elena Pozzolini, that illustrates how the Super Tuscans can bring a new freshness to their wines – and a sense of cool – even when climate change is making...
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WORD OF MOUTH: BOLGHERI, TUSCANY
WORD OF MOUTH: BOLGHERI, TUSCANY
TRAVERSING ALL THE SPLENDOR OF THE LESSER-KNOWN ITALIAN WINE REGION Posted by Lane Nieset Posted on29 January 2021 Barolo and Montepulciano oftentimes steal the spotlight when it comes to iconic Italian wine towns, but the tiny, castle-topped home to one of the original Super Tuscans (red blends made in the region)—Bolgheri—is slowly emerging as a favorite, where visitors cozy up in villas along the coast. Before the 1980s, the region boasted one sole vineyard: Sassicaia, known for its Bordeaux-inspired, terroir-heavy reds grown in rocky vineyards. Today, there are 55 wine estates. One of those estates is the glorious Tenuta Sette Cieli (or “Estate...
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How Much Italian Wine Should You Drink to Make Your Canceled Italy Trip Hurt Less?
How Much Italian Wine Should You Drink to Make Your Canceled Italy Trip Hurt Less?
by Kristin Tice Studeman Can drinking a delicious glass of Tuscan wine soothe the sting of a canceled trip to Florence? Here’s one way to find out. Kristin Tice Studeman, writer, wine enthusiast, and founder of The Rosé Project, shares a few of her favorite bottles from the beloved Italian region. YOUR HOUSE - Open up a good bottle of wine from Tuscany and you can quite literally taste the picturesque, rolling hillsides and coastal breeze from the comforts of your own home. We so easily forget that good wine can be wonderfully transporting — each bottle tells a story about the place it...
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A sensational Cabernet/Merlot blend
A sensational Cabernet/Merlot blend
I visited the spectacular Seven Heavens estate in May and have been wishing time away waiting for the wines to arrive in the UK. The estate’s owner, Ambrogio Cremona Ratti, a young man with dauntless vision, and I stood on the terrace overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, 400m high up in the hills, encircled by lush forests, and he didn’t need to explain to me why the estate was called Seven Heavens. We looked down upon the famous Bolgheri wine region, home to wine giants Sassicaia and Ornellaia. This situation provides Ambrogio and his dynamic young winemaker Elena Pozzolini with the...
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Elena Pozzolini of Tenuta Sette Cieli Joins us at Tenzing Wine & Spirits
Elena Pozzolini of Tenuta Sette Cieli Joins us at Tenzing Wine & Spirits
“We had the good fortune to partake in Tenzing Wine & Spirits “The Italians are Coming” tasting this month. Hear Elena Pozzolini, Winemaker at Tenuta Sette Cieli discuss this Tuscan property in Bolgheri. It’s located close to the sea with cool nights, creating slower ripening of the Bordeaux varietals grown here. Pozzolini, a Florence Italy native, brings her skills from stints as a winemaker around the world, back to her homeland in Italy. “Through her travels, she especially appreciated the open mindedness of the wineries of California. Listen as she talks of this special area where the famed Sassicaia originates....
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A Band Apart: Exploring Bolgheri, the Tuscan Village With an Aristocratic Wine Heritage
A Band Apart: Exploring Bolgheri, the Tuscan Village With an Aristocratic Wine Heritage
"Until the mid-20th century, The Maremma—the southwest coast of Tuscany—was best known as a malarial swamp and a hideout for cowboy bandits. Not exactly a catchy advertisement for the chamber of commerce. Inhabitants lived and farmed on higher ground to avoid the deadly disease. Most everyone else passed through on the ancient Via Aurelia from Rome to Provence—a road that still divides the region between the Tyrrhenian seaside and the Colline Metallifere, the iron-laced 'metal-bearing hills.' "Although vines were grown as early as the Etruscan era, modern drainage efforts did not begin until the first half of the 18th century....
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Wilson Daniels Introduces Tenuta Sette Cieli: the Estate of the Seven Skies: a spirited winery located in southern Tuscany with the soul of a fabled terrain
Wilson Daniels Introduces Tenuta Sette Cieli: the Estate of the Seven Skies: a spirited winery located in southern Tuscany with the soul of a fabled terrain
ST. HELENA, CA (December 10, 2014) — Wilson Daniels, one of the industry’s foremost wines and spirits importers and marketers in the U.S., announces a new partnership with an Italian rising star winery Tenuta Sette Cieli, located in southern Tuscany’s Maremma region. Tenuta Sette Cieli sits high in the hills above Bolgheri and Castagneto Carducci, overlooking the coast of Tuscany from 400 meters above the Mediterranean Sea. Surrounded by the lush green woods of Monteverdi Marittimo, this stunning estate has developed 17 of its 173 acres as stone-terraced vineyards. Here, densely planted Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec vines...
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