Gratena is a winery on the hills of Arezzo, Tuscany.
It was purchased by my grandfather in 1968, he loved Tuscany and was attracted by a
long road of cypress trees, a typical Tuscan road.
Consisting of 180 hectares of which 152 hectares of Mediterranean forest, 18 hectares
of vineyards and of these 14 certified Chianti and 4 certified Typical Geographical
Indication. It also has 10 hectares of olive trees for a total of 1600 also certified
Igp.
The company has been completely organic since 1994, one of the first in Italy. It
bottles and certifies everything organic, wine and olive oil. Total production can vary
but is around 50/80,000 bottles per year.
It also has 4 apartments for agritourism activities.
Since 2000, Gratena has begun to internationalize and currently exports to many
countries around the world.
The main exporting countries are the United States, Canada and Japan.
It differs from many other companies because from the beginning it decided to produce
only native wines without imported vines. Sangiovese and Gratena Nero, a vine recently
rediscovered and definitively certified by the Tuscany Region in 2017 of which we are
the sole owners and producers. In 2018 it was certified that Gratena Nero is synonymous
with Incrocio Terzi 1, a vine of small quantities planted around the Bergamo hills, in
fact the last owner of Gratena was from Bergamo. Incrocio Terzi 1, therefore Gratena
Nero, is a mix of Cabernet Franc and Barbera, this has been certified.
The company has decided to concentrate all its efforts on Sangiovese and Gratena Nero
to identify and impose its terroir and its brand.
Small company but like many small companies, it carries out work based on an
international background already present before and on brand enhancement programs which
provide for its distribution and sale throughout the world only in the Ho.Re.Ca and
specialized large-scale retail trade sector where required.
All processing is natural, manual harvesting, spontaneous fermentation without yeasts
and sulphites, fertilization with manure or with rain alone if abundant. Just a little
sulphites before bottling allow our wines to last a long time.
Nature helps us, not always, to keep our Terroir in balance.