Marco Capitoni, winemaker and farmer for generations has lived and worked on his farm in Pienza, the "ideal city", the Renaissance jewel of Pope Pius II, today a World Heritage Site. He's a winemaker and a poet.
He personally takes care of the land, the sowing and harvesting of the grain as well as the care of the vineyards. Look at the sky to see if it's raining or sunny, check the vine every day, the hands that move "carefully among the green leaves to arrange branches" with arms that seem to "join other arms: the vine branches".
He makes wine and writes poetry. Sometimes his verses end up on the bottle as in the case of Frasi. There is always a new poem on the label. “Curiosity to know/desire to remember/attention”, reads Frasi 2014, made of Sangiovese, a few pinches of Canaiolo and Colorino, spent two years in oak barrels.
Capitoni compares every day the tradition of craftsmanship that has been handed down to him and modern knowledge. Without controversy with those who work the wine more in the cellar than in the vineyard, he states that his wines "are mainly a gift of nature and the territory, and show its substance".
The Sangiovese is enhanced with a vinification in amphorae strictly "made in Tuscany", made in Impruneta, with the skins for eight days and then after racking, the must returns to the amphorae where it completes the alcoholic fermentation and becomes, after the removal of the lees, the Orcia "Troccolone" doc, in memory of the name given to the merchant who once passed through the Sienese farms with everything useful for daily life, from foodstuffs to utensils, buttons, sewing threads, which the farmers exchanged for eggs and rabbits.
Troccolone 2018, 100% Sangiovese, 12,5% alcohol (10 euros in the cellar), spends six months in Tuscan terracotta to come out with a respectable DOC and great enjoyment for the palate.
But Capitoni is the label that reigns supreme in the heart of the winemaker/poet and on the table. It is a very versatile DOC Orcia Riserva, so much so that it can also be tasted with some fish dishes, especially from the lake. Capitoni 2015, 15% alcohol content (12 euros) spent 18 months in barrique, is made of 80% Sangiovese and 20% Merlot. Marco Capitoni, who has recently celebrated twenty years of activity in the vineyard, produces twenty thousand bottles a year.
Capitoni Marco Farm
Podere Redime 63 – 53026 Pienza
www.capitoni.eu
