Il Barbiglione is the name in Palaia dialect for bee-eaters, a beautiful, colourful bird that lives in lands with a lot of sand. It is a wonderful bird to watch flying over our vineyards.
A wine created to satisfy the senses, made from our finest grapes, which reach their finest expression thanks to sandy soils. This wine is the perfect witness for telling the story and the terroir of Usiglian del Vescovo.
TASTING NOTES
Deep colour with purple hues. Intense, complex bouquet, with evident notes of blackberries, currants and blueberries. When first tasted, the wine seems mellow and then evolves into an intriguing tannic explosion. Persistent and surprisingly fresh finish.
PAIRINGS
Perfect with red meat, game and aged cheeses. Its intense floral and fruity bouquet, together with its freshness, makes this wine the ideal companion for spiced dishes and for special occasions.
A Chianti Superiore with an intense, fruity aroma produced with Sangiovese grapes from our vineyards.
As one of our best wines, you will appreciate it for its inimitable elegance given by our terroir, combined with the soft and velvety scent.
TASTING NOTES
Bright red colour, with an austere garnet nuance. The nose is intense with notes of red and purple fruit. It has a soft entrance on the palate. The vibrant freshness makes its finish fruity and extremely pleasant.
PAIRINGS
It pairs elegantly with pasta and meat sauce, red meat, feathered game and aged cheeses. Its characteristics and typical features make it ideal with traditional Tuscan and Italian dishes. Also excellent with meat and tuna tartare.
Il Ginestraio pays homage to broom, a sunny, fragrant flower that luxuriantly grows among the vineyards of Usiglian del Vescovo. The wine has an elegant character and floral aroma; its unique personality makes it ideal for surprising pairings.
TASTING NOTES
Deep yellow colour with bright gold and green hues. Very fruity bouquet with notes of peach, apricot, linden and acacia blossom. A very smooth structure with medium body on the palate. The finish is fresh, clean and nicely persistent.
PAIRINGS
Delicious with pasta drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and cheese or served with a light tomato sauce and topped with San Miniato white truffle.
Also excellent with fish dishes and medium-aged cheeses.
In Tuscan dialect, Grullaio is the doctor of nitwits and fools, and with this name we would like to pay homage to this wine that turns you nutty.
A fresh and alluring red which will astound you with its bright character and versatility. Short maceration at a low temperature enhances its fruity pleasantness.
TASTING NOTES
Deep red with purple highlights. Delicious bouquet featuring strawberry, blackberry and blueberry notes. On the palate it is smooth with silky tannins. The finish is fruity and long, thanks in part to its considerable freshness.
PAIRINGS
Recommended with pasta with tomato sauce, pan-fried and roast white meats, San Miniato white truffle, aged cheeses and Livornese “cacciucco”. Also excellent for aperitifs.
A fresh rosé produced from grapes harvested when they are perfectly ripe, allowing to obtain a harmonious wine.
TASTING NOTES
Characteristic colour with copper reflections.
The nose is floral with hints of apricot.
On the palate it is characterised by a marked minerality and freshness.
PAIRINGS
Excellent with all kinds of appetisers, first courses and fish soups; Tuscan soups and any vegetable dish. It is also ideal paired with quick snacks.
1083 was presumably the year in which Usiglian del Vescovo independently produced wine for the Catholic Mass. To commemorate this desire for independence in the utmost respect of the spirit of that period, we named our wine with that precise year, emotionally connecting it to our desire to pay homage to an ancient and unique land.
TASTING NOTES
Deep colour with purple shades.
Its nose is very intense, balsamic and complex, with blackberry and blueberry notes, while the long ageing determines the tertiary notes of coffee, chocolate and spices. On the palate it has a warm and enveloping entrance with an impressive tannic structure.
Very persistent finish with a pleasant fruitiness.
PAIRINGS
Excellent with hard cheeses, sauces made with game, stewed red meats, pan-cooked wild game, stewed wild boar. Its complexity and uniqueness make it ideal also as a “meditation” wine.
Matilde di Canossa donated the fief of Usigliano to the Bishop of Lucca in 1078, changing its name to Usiglian del Vescovo forever. With this wine, a combination of tradition and innovation, we intend to pay tribute to that event and to the millenary history of Usiglian del Vescovo. A wine that will know how to win you over year after year with its unique character resulting from ageing in barriques and amphorae.
TASTING NOTES
In the glass, MilleEsettantotto has a bright, pale-yellow colour with green shades. It has a fine and complex bouquet. In the mouth it reveals a harmony of fresh and sweet notes combined with a considerable body and persistence.
This wine is destined to remarkably evolve over time.
PAIRINGS
Suitable for refined and spiced seafood dishes, white truffle dishes and mushroom risottos. It is also ideal with white meats.
Blackberries, the sweet fruit that grows hidden among the harshness and thorns of the bush, are a tribute to our territory, certainly difficult considering their characteristics, but capable of giving rise to amazing wines. A wine with elegant aromas of red fruit which will conquer you with its decisive and enveloping character.
TASTING NOTES
Deep colour with purple hues. Intense bouquet with evident notes of red berries. Smooth and enveloping on the palate, with a pleasant, persistent finish.
PAIRINGS
An elegant pairing for red and white meats, pasta with meat sauce, lasagne and all traditional Tuscan dishes.
Native grape variety in classic-method Spumante.
TASTING NOTES
Pale pink colour with nuances of onion peel and a very fine perlage. It has an intense, elegant bouquet of red fruits and flowers, with marked violet and notes of croissants. On the palate it is elegant and complex, with a noticeable minerality and pleasant freshness. Bruvé has a clean, fresh and enveloping finish with a remarkable persistence on the palate.
PAIRINGS
Perfect overture of any meal, great with all kinds of appetisers. A safe companion for all seafood pasta dishes.
Perfect pairing with fresh fruit desserts.
Thanks to the selection of an excellent grappa and the ageing in tonneaux used for our wine Il Barbiglione, it becomes a complex and refined nectar.
ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS
In the glass it is an intense amber colour tending to golden yellow with reddish shades, very inviting. Its scent is gentle and elegant, warm and fragrant, with notes of ripe grapes, plum, apricot, cherry. There are also hints of vanilla, coffee, cocoa, pistachio and walnut.
In the mouth it is refined and delicate, harmonious, vinous, soft with pleasant shades of spices, walnut husk, almonds and honey. Great aromatic richness and very long flavour persistence.
A timeless classic, an icon of Tuscan wine.
TASTING NOTES
Amber colour with copper and garnet reflections. It has very intense aromas with notes of plums and dried apricots, followed by hints of walnut husk and chocolate. On the palate it is balanced, quite spiced with pleasant citrus notes. The finish has a very long persistence.
PAIRINGS
It pairs perfectly with dry pastries, typically the classic Tuscan cantuccini. Excellent with fine chocolate. Surprising with medium-aged blue cheeses.
Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The olive varieties Leccino, Frantoio and Moraiolo are harvested by hand early and cold pressed within a few hours of harvesting, giving rise to an intense and fruity oil with marked notes of almonds and artichoke.
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