Montecucco, a territory to discover

The band represents the investiture that the Association recognizes to the wines that pass the severe examination of the internal Commission. Each producer member of the Association, once obtained the acknowledgment as DOC of the product, released by the Chamber of Commerce and other government supervisory organs, can freely decide to present his products to a Commission composed of Oenologists and experts. Successively these products will be tasted anonymously and if judged suitable, they will be awarded the suitability for the use of the identification band. It’s just the certainty of the quality of the approved product that pushes us to “put face”, that is to give a stamp with our logo, printed on progressively numbered bands, as a guarantee for all the consumers that choose our product.

 It was a group of young farmers who in 2000 created the Association for the protection and the promotion of the newborn Montecucco Appellation of Origin, stimulated by the deep conviction that only sharing a way they could obtain a real growth. Thanks to the care and to the passion that the twenty promoting partners have lavished on the Association, this one has become a guide for the territory and a centre of confrontation for the whole surrounding productive structure. The capability to stand daily by the enterprises, the activity of promotion of the brand, the care for the quality of the product in every step of its transformation are some of the factors that have permitted to acquire the trust of the local enterprises, joined in time by some of the most important wine producing companies of the national survey. This continuous development made sure that, starting from a few dozen producers and a few thousand bottles, today the association enterprises have notably increased and they produce over one million bottles. In spite of the increase of the Appellation and the heterogeneity of the producers, there is a trait then that joins the latter: the absolute respect for the countryside and its products in an environment of full symbiosis between man and nature; in fact, whatever the enterprise dimension may be, the care for all the steps of production of the grapes is constant, in the awareness that a great wine comes above all from the vineyard. In addition of that in the cellar they use traditional and modern but never invasive techniques; all of this to give the final consumer a wine that is a sincere expression of our territory, close but at the same time far from the routes of mass tourism, still genuine, to taste, therefore fit to fascinate whoever will visit it.

The wine production in Montecucco, is divided between:

• Montecucco Sangiovese DOCG
• Montecucco Sangiovese Riserva DOCG
• Montecucco Rosso DOC
• Montecucco Rosso Riserva DOC
• Montecucco Vermentino DOC
• Montecucco Bianco DOC
• Montecucco Vin Santo DOC
• Montecucco Vin Santo Occhio di Pernice DOC

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