Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome to Episode 1832 on Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he will be interviewing Rocco Toscani More about today’s guest At the end of the 60s my father Oliviero Toscani had enough courage and vision to build his own house in Casale Marittimo: a tiny hamlet on coastal Tuscany, up on the hills and a few kilometers from Bolgheri. He purchased a small farmhouse with some land all around and brought two horses. Every year he used to invest all his savings buying land. He did not believe in bricks but he did believe in the land. He was damn right! My father has always been a determined, subversive and visionary creative. These very qualities made him achieve an exceptional career and build a farm of indisputable beauty. After planting more than 4000 olive trees, raising Appaloosa horses, Cinta Senese breed pigs, Angus cows and homing pigeons, we felt like our project was missing something: a vineyard. 12 hectares of amphitheater-shaped vineyard at 350 meters above sea level wit