Tua Rita

When Rita and Virgilio decided to buy what was to become the Tua Rita winery in 1984, the land and buildings were to be just the setting for a place where they could live in contact with nature and cultivate their land. But the unstoppable drive of the passion for wine changed things. And from the original two hectares, cultivated from the outset with the utmost rigour, in the space of less than 40 years the hectares under vine have grown to 30. Quite a leap for a company that at the beginning was considered one of the first Italian companies to be built on the "vin de garage" model. We are in a happy corner of Tuscany, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Metalliferous Hills, in the Val di Cornia. The winery, enlarged and completely overhauled between 2000 and 2002 to support a high-profile production, now boasts an annual output of around 220,000 bottles.