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Abbia Nòva
An archipelago of land islands in the municipality of Piglio, a series of small and medium-sized plots, each with its own character, which together are an alternation of cultivation and nature. We have vines, olive trees, medicinal herbs, walnuts and a vegetable garden. Each island of the archipelago (cru or contrada) is a unit in itself, one with the surrounding environment and its soil. Each of them reveals itself over the years through nuances that define its character and together compose a mosaic that we have helped to build. Wine is produced by four of them (San Giovanni, Cercione, Collepasso, Vignali), oil by five (Costa Ilia, Collepasso, Fontana di Grano, San Giovanni, Mignano). In some islands such as San Giovanni or Costa Ilia the plants are very old and have now reached a total adaptation to the environment. The medicinal herbs of different species complete the flora cultivated in association with fruit trees and wild herbs. Around each one there are woods, other fields, meadows.Piglio
Municipality of Piglio, province of Frosinone, forty kilometers south of Rome, Lazio Region. A small enclave with the mountains that lead to Abruzzo behind it and the Roman countryside in front. The first DOCG in Lazio. Bernard of Clairvaux took his vows here (and the teaching of monastic arts including agriculture) before leaving for Burgundy. Nerva and Trajan retired to summer villas in the fields that Abbia Nòva cultivates today. The Benedictine Monastery of Santa Scolastica is our agricultural library. For about four hundred years one variety has established itself over the others that have passed through over the centuries and that still try to make themselves noticed in the old vineyards. Cesanese d'Affile plays the leading role in the vineyards, but over time we have also worked to give dignity to other, more ancient vines, which we jealously guard, from Passerina to Nostrano.Metodo
We come from humble peasant families. We have a natural agricultural approach that is often very personal, constantly evolving, but that deeply reflects us: it is a fusion between local traditions and something strongly cultural built by us thanks to the suggestions and teachings of many natural methods that we have studied and experimented over the years Maybe because our grandparents gave us a hoe in the right hand and a metaphorical library in the other that was used to study different agricultural cultures, to treasure them, to merge them with ours. That hoe instead represents the viticultural tradition of Piglio that has lasted for two thousand years, made on volcanic soils, with a maniacal care of the plants, with vineyards that have always shared the space with vegetable gardens, fruit trees, animals. Our winery is a small isolated farmhouse in the mountains, on the Roman consular road that led from Lazio to Abruzzo, two rooms in which there are amphorae, cement, steel, wood and demijohn glass to help us. The only tools, coordinated only by the brain and hands.
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