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)
0 carbon footprint