In Cortine, where the vinification cellar and the cooperage are located, well before the birth of the winery, excellent wine was already being produced; the priest of the rectory, Don Agostino Giotti, made it with vines that are now a hundred years old and still exist and endure, in the vineyards bordering the church.
Together with the farmer who helped him with the farm work, those processes were carried out that before being such were true rituals of the peasant culture. The vines were brought according to the two historical forms of cultivation of the "Tuscan capovolto" and that of the vine "maritata" to saplings of poplar, elm or pear, according to traditions that are lost even in the Etruscan culture.
Thus it was that word spread in the surrounding villages, of a legendary, very good wine, made "by the priest" of Cortine, who jealously guarded it for himself and for the few who were lucky enough to be able to taste it...