Description
About Tenuta Meraviglia Wines
Tenuta Meraviglia is what its name says. A wonderful place, a terrace overlooking the sea and the Tuscan archipelago. Reaching the highest point, about 150 meters, where the iconic roof terrace is located, the gaze is lost in the blue, the air smells of salt and pine, the vineyards run towards the sea. 34 hectares of vineyards of Cabernet Franc only, plus a few plots of Vermentino, on a soil where the sandy component meets – only in this area of Bolgheri – lava rocks called Vulcanites of San Vincenzo.
The soil, natural conditions and climate of Bolgheri are an exceptional mix. Added to this is the uniqueness of the vineyard area of Tenuta Meraviglia: here the combination of outcropping geological formations is absolutely exceptional, with soils of marine, continental and volcanic origin. The volcanic parent rock generates soils from thin to shallow, with abundant to high stoniness, with a sandy loam texture.
The whitish lava rocks are rhyolites, from the Greek, ῥύα(ξ) «torrent», or «flowing lava», and λίθο, stone, a type of formation rare throughout the Tuscan territory and found only in this area in Bolgheri , behind San Vincenzo. Hence the name Vulcaniti di San Vincenzo. Vulcanites favor the minerality of the soil and catalyze the production of sugars and the formation of soft tannins in the vine.
