Surrounded by woodland, the 20 hectares of La Cerbaiola look out over the Val d'Orcia from an altitude of 420 meters, opening up like a gently sloping plateau four kilometers to the southeast of Montalcino. There are three small vineyards for a total of 4 hectares, each with its own characteristics: soils that vary from chalky schist to stony marl. All the work in the vineyard is carried out by hand, with hard pruning to obtain low yields of fruit and careful selection during the manual harvest. Production is deliberately limited, to obtain the very best from a unique terroir: 10,000 bottles a year when only Brunello is made; and 15,000 for the years in which there is also some Rosso di Montalcino
