The company which covers an area of 20 hectares of which 11 a
specialized vineyard is divided into 2 distinct bodies: one located on a ridge straddling the Municipalities of Ortezzano and Monte Rinaldo at an average altitude of m. 300 slm with hilly location and mainly southern exposure, on indigenous calcareous clay soil, which represents the main production center; the other is also located in the Municipality of Ortezzano in the locality of Valdaso at an altitude of m. 150 slm with flat position and medium-textured alluvial soil where in 2005, in addition to having planted 2 hectares of Chardonnay
High density polyclonal, a modern cellar was built for
the transformation of their own grapes.
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The family and history
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The family and history
Already at the end of the 1800s, grandfather Antonio Sgalippa on his small farm in Monte Vidon Combatte cultivated the vine with love and passion in its typical form of cultivation, "married to maple" and from which he obtained a wine that represents the pride of his life daily. However, it is the parents Mario and Rosa Sgalippa who, after a happy non-agricultural work experience in the 50s in Australia, deciding in the early 60s to return to Italy to invest their fruits in two separate farms in the municipalities of Ortezzano and Monterinaldo, who created the foundations of today's Sgaly company. The production of grapes that increased and improved from year to year was conferred with satisfaction to a local cooperative. In the mid-80s Tommaso Sgalippa, having completed his studies at the ITAS of Ascoli Piceno, takes over the leadership of the family business which in the last five years had been run with great firmness and obstinacy only by his mother Rosa due to the untimely death of his father .