Producer Giovanna Pacina

TUSCANY

Giovanna Pacina's company is located in the municipality of Castelnuovo Berardenga in a 10th century convent surrounded by woods and the Crete Senesi. Giovanna is helped by her husband Stefano in the management of the 22 hectares of land divided between vineyards, olive groves, orchards, cereals, vegetable garden and woods. Giovanna has succeeded in the difficult task of respecting and maintaining the habitat differences present in her property so that the plant and animal ecosystems have been able to maintain their wealth and their interrelationships. Giovanna Pacina cultivates Sangiovese, Canaiolo, Ciliegiolo and Trebbiano which grow on sandy and clayey soils. The approach to the care of the vineyards is absolutely natural with the complete exclusion of any chemical substance. In the cellar, alcoholic fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts and the wine produced is not clarified or filtered before bottling. Giovanna produces six wines; Cerretina Bianco, a macerated white, Secondo Pacina, Pacina, red wine aged in cask, Villa Pacina produced from pure red grapes, Pachna, red wine in purity from late harvest aged in large casks, and Malena, blend of red grapes.