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Vigliano Azienda Agricola
Via Carcheri, 309
50010 - San Martino alla Palma - FI
Phone : 0558727006
Fax : 0558727040
 
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Vigliano is a small town on the hills around Florence, where the Marchionni family moved in 1978. As you leave the city headed south-west, a 30-minute drive leads you to a narrow country lane and straight into the Vigliano town centre, with a total of 15-20 houses. The favourable land and exposure conditions encouraged to plant the first olive trees, the first vines, and thus, in time, Vigliano became the name of our Company.
The property spreads over 18 hectares. On 12 of these, the vineyards and olive-groves were thoroughly renewed in the past few years. The other 6 hectares, located in the near-by town of San Martino a Carcheri and turned towards the Val di Pesa, will be the object of a future action.
The vineyards, in fact, were first established as soon as the Marchionni family moved to Vigliano, but were then substituted according to the most advanced and recent know-how acquired in viticulture: higher plant density per hectare, clone selection of varietals, but renewed presence of the Tuscan grape par excellence: Sangiovese.
At present, 6 hectares are reserved to vineyards, while approximately 1,800 olive trees are strewn over about 7 hectares.
The economic effort and the productive sacrifice that the Vigliano Company coped with to renew the old vineyards bears evidence of our strong belief in the utmost importance of vineyard-related activities, which are crucial in view of a top-quality result in the cellar. Ever since the early 1990s, we have been reorganizing our production in view of top quality: not incidentally, we avail ourselves of the consulting skills of Andrea Paoletti, agronomist and eonologist, one of the greatest worldwide grape-physiology experts.
The cellar, designed and built from scraps within the Company’s premises, was conceived according to functional principles, separating the wine-making rooms with temperature-controlled stainless-steel containers, from the barrel-storage room, also kept at constant temperature, and from the cellar for bottled-wine storage.
The pursuit of such ambitious objectives for such a small company as Vigliano called for significant economic investments, also considering that the sales network was organized from scraps, and so was image promotion. Furthermore, all this occurred within very few years: in fact, the work that had been organized and started around 1992-93 only yielded its early results in 1997, with the first issue of L’Erta and Brěcoli Chardonnay. A small number of bottles that were sold out within one month only!
Later vintages saw an increase in the production of grapes, which will only reach its full potential starting from the 2005 vintage.
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