Our Style

There was a time when taste - in wine as in food, in art and in all aesthetics - was different. They liked muscles and wide hips; they liked mass, matter, volume, even excess. Those were, it goes without saying, times that culminated in the 1990s. Today, thirty years later, we have become more sober, more evanescent, more ethereal, more ambiguous; times have changed, everything has become more fluid, even the question of gender. Well, in order to face this time, as well as the one that has just passed, the six lessons, American but completely stateless, that Italo Calvino conceived precisely in view of the 'next millennium' prove prophetic. This millennium, to be lived under the banner of lightness, rapidity, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and coherence. And since we are only at the beginning of this millennium, it seems today that everyone is crazy about lightness, to be enjoyed as much in wine as in life. 

We at Tenuta Montauto have always championed the cause of lightness, and have done so ever since the winery took its first steps. Whether because of the vines we have and that have chosen us - Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, in particular - or because of the land we inhabit, lightness has been an existential imperative for us from the very beginning. It may seem counter-intuitive in a land like the Maremma, known for its inability to bend to any form of compromise; yet, precisely in this land as rich in harshness as it is in fragments of unreachable, poignant beauty, lightness is the only way not to be overwhelmed by difficulties and to learn never to dwell too much on things, but to 'glide over them from above - precisely - without boulders on your heart'. 

It was the Maremma that taught us how to treat them, these vines, known precisely and above all for their ability to read the territory, extraordinary at all latitudes. And so it is that even the harvests of recent times, with the climatic warming to which we are all subjected, we already knew how to deal with them: we were prepared, given that, for us, lightness has always been an imperative and, even in the hottest vintages, we learnt how to make wines that were always light, rarefied and airy. Step by step, we have learnt to capture, of this land, the more ethereal and therefore more expressive part, because it is more aromatic. The most botanical part, in short, of this land of ours, of which we also bottle the wind that always blows from the sea, just ten kilometres away as the crow flies. 

It is precisely this, or rather expressiveness, that is the great merit of lightness applied to wine: our wine, capable of encapsulating, in its matter, all the essence of the Maremma territory.