Guado al Melo

Guado al Melo is a family-run winery in the hills of the Bolgheri DOC, run with passion and skill by the Scienza family, combining artisan tradition with sustainability. The project began in 1998, when Annalisa and Michele, in their late twenties but with a solid background of personal and family experience, started their personal adventure. Today Guado al Melo covers 16.5 hectares of vineyards, rich in biodiversity. The winery, the result of a bio-architecture project, is completely underground. It houses an interesting museum on the history and culture of wine, as well as a large library, collected over a lifetime of work by Professor Attilio Scienza, Michele's father and a renowned expert in viticulture and author of an important zoning study conducted in the mid-90s to fully understand the complexity of Bolgheri's soils. An interesting fact: the name Guado al Melo, which is the ancient name of this place, refers to the ford on the Fossa di Bolgheri stream, the waterway that surrounds the company's vineyards and gives the soils their alluvial quality.