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Frescobaldi Gorgona

Gorgona Island, Tuscan Archipelago, Livorno · Italy

Island-grown Gorgona white wine from the prison-rehabilitation vineyard

What you’ll find

What Frescobaldi Gorgona is known for

Grown on the smallest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, which is also Italy's only remaining island penitentiary, this white comes from a two-hectare vineyard. Since 2012 the Frescobaldi wine house has trained inmates in viticulture and winemaking here, vinifying a Vermentino-Ansonica white and, later, a terracotta-aged Gorgona Rosso on the island.