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Altura

Isola del Giglio (Tuscan Archipelago), Grosseto · Italy

Terraced-vineyard Ansonaco (Ansonica) skin-contact island white wine

What you’ll find

What Altura is known for

Francesco Carfagna restored the island's abandoned dry-stone terraces, the greppe, to grow Ansonica on Giglio's granite. Hand-harvested and made with native yeasts, the wines centre on the skin-contact Altura Ansonaco white, with a little red alongside.