La Serena

The farm “La Rasa”, property of Mantengoli's since 1933, is a family concern. We started with our quality wines, Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino in 1988. In 1988 my brother and I, became involved in the production of the quality wines, Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino. 100 years on from the first bottles of a pure Sangiovese, we are selling our first bottles of “La Serena”, the name we gave to cores our range of products. Production has incre...

When you look at Montalcino “terroir” you are surprised by the perfect synergy among many different soils, poor but rich of clay so they can maintain the water, with limestone that give structure to the land to take away any kind of stagnation and then the climate: a lot of sun, a lot of windy and excellent thermal excursions just before the harvest. The extraordinary combination between poverty and the ability to hold the water, that you can ...

In my region, harvest normally occurs at the end of September or in the first two weeks of October. It is on average because there are too many items that help us to decide the right time to harvest. The first thing we do is to look at the vineyards and to the grapes, not all the grapes are ready to harvest at the same time, so we choose the areas to harvest first, and day after day we complete the harvest in two or three weeks. When the grape...