LUMEO

A man once told me:

“If you tell me about your children, you make me

fall in love with them. If you tell me about

somebody else’s children then it is one of the

many stories...”

Well then, let me tell you about my children:

their names are Luce and Romeo.

They are brilliant and funny. They laugh

and cry. They learn from me and teach me.

They show me the world from a different

prospective by teaching me what the good

things in life are.

Why have I chosen the pigeon?

My greatest passion is about homing

pigeons which I’ve been training and racing

for many years. For me they mean escape,

a passion. They are my children too whose

presence I cannot miss. I see myself in these

homing pigeons; they are stuck to the place

where they raised and wherever they are

released they fly to come back home.

Sometimes they manage to fly for thousands

of miles in a day to come back. This has always

been my path in life. Wherever I’ve been, I have

always felt the need to go back to the place

where I grew up.

Lumeo is made with Syrah grapes. These are

fermented and macerated for about six months

in terracotta and cocciopesto vats adding

a small percentage of white grapes of Greco.

This is a very unique expression of Syrah

in coastal Tuscany.

Grapes: Syrah

Appellation: IGT Costa Toscana Rosso

Vineyard: Monteromboli

Harvest: second half of September

Fermentation: terracotta and cocciopesto vats

Maceration: 6 months in amphora

Aging: 6 months into amphora followed

by 12 months into bottles

Closure: Nomacorc Reserva (sugar cane)

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