Producer Massimiliano Croci

EMILIA ROMAGNA

The farm is located on the Monterosso hill in Val d'Arda and overlooks the Plain Plains. Here, Massimiliano Croci, together with his father, Ermanno, manages the family company founded in 1935. Since entering the company, Massimiliano has directed production to high quality wines, while maintaining all the typicality of the Piacenza wines. Valorization and respect for the territory are at the center of the company's objectives, which for this reason is committed to experimentation, in search of new methods of vinification and refinement of local grapes in order to give genuine, traceable and excellent wines. Today, the hectares of vines are a dozen planted with the classic vineyards of Piacenza; Ortrugo, Malvasia and Trebbiano for the whites, Bonarda and Barbera for the reds. In the vineyard it is practiced by inerting, the treatments are done without using toxic and synthetic substances, herbicides and chemical fertilizers, to respect the territory, the vine and its natural cycles and to produce genuine wines. Grape harvest is done by hand; The time between harvesting and pressing is minimal, the grapes are stored in small boxes and then crafted in an artisanal way to keep all the grape characteristics and properties unaltered.