MONTEBAMBOLI IS BORN
FROM A VISION BY
VITTORIO MORETTI.
Montebamboli represents the second soul of a project we like to call “courageous.”
It was born from an intuition of Vittorio Moretti, who more than twenty-five years ago recognized and brought to life this territory set within the Parco Naturale dei Montioni. In 2024, Andrea Lonardi MW, in close collaboration with the Moretti family, saw in Montebamboli a different way of reading the Tuscan Coast—one tied not to a model, but to the specific conditions of high-altitude vineyards.
THE CLIMATE AND THE SOILS
At 400 meters above sea level, Montebamboli looks down on the Tuscan Coast from above: here the air is clearer, ripening slower, the light sharper. The climate is cooler and wetter than on the coast. The vineyard is a natural balcony overlooking the sea, set within more than 7,000 hectares of Mediterranean scrub.
It is a true “woodland vineyard,” where biodiversity does not merely accompany the vines—it defines them. The soils are acidic, rich in skeleton and ferrous minerals, with gravels from the breakdown of sandstones, clays, and limestone flysch.
MINIMAL VITICULTURE
If Petra is verticality, method, and architecture, Montebamboli is horizontality, essentiality, and instinct. From here come three single-variety wines: Cabernet Franc, Grenache, and Vermentino. Petra and Montebamboli are two souls of the same project, two complementary ways of reading the Tuscan Coast.
MONTEBAMBOLI IS A
CONTEMPORARY PROJECT
OF SENSITIVITY.
Of courage in following new paths.
Of affirming that climate change can become an opportunity to reread a territory.
THE WINES:
A MEDITERRANEAN
GRAMMAR
