I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, A man, well, Stuky Prenetti on the show today from Baria-Cotabono in Tuscany.

Hello and welcome.

Hello, thank you very much.

Thank you for being here.

So why don't you tell us a little bit about the history of Baria-A-Cotabono as we know?

You know, a little bit is a hard question because the history of Badia Colto 1 is so long but it has started as a monasteries.

Badia really means Abbey Monastery and it was founded just before the year 1000.

So Badia-A-Cultibono, the Abbey of good harvest, of good crop,

is a history in the winemaking because this monks,

Benedicting monks, at the same time started also

re-introducing the cultivation of the vineyard in Kianti that had a little bit

disappeared for some centuries between the trascons and the

barbarian invasions. So they started again the cultivation of the vineyard and

the monks have been there until 1804, that is when Apoleone Bonaparte came and he threw them out of the place.

And then in 1846 it was bought by my family.

So it's, there is a very nice interesting continuity for on the property

for what was happening at the times of the monks and now in today.

So Vidaculture in this region stretches back to the Etruscan era.

Yes, yes. In fact, we have also always on the property there is a little Etruscan site,

it's an excavation, and in fact just this last year in June, during the excavation

that were going deep down into a well, some grape seeds have come out. So we are now looking into finding out the DNA of those

grape seeds and seeing, you know, the connection with the today's cultivation. That was dated 2,000 years ago. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah.

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