Maria Ernesta Berucci

FARM

The story

Our farm was founded in 2008, and today represents the union of two agricultural projects and two lives, Maria Ernesta and Geminiano who gave birth to Elena, Beatrice and Luigi Manfredi.

Maria Ernesta

Maria Ernesta inherits the sincere and disinterested passion for wine and the rustic conviviality that is born around it from her father Manfredi Berucci, heir to the historic Massimi Berucci Company and pioneer of a new conception of viticulture and production of Cesanese del Piglio wine. After her transfer from Rome to Piglio, she collaborated in the creation of the Cesanese Wine Route and covers the position of operative director for several years, bringing his contribution to the promotion of Cesanese del Piglio and wine tourism in the area. In 2009 she vinified with her brother Francesco the grapes of the ancient vineyard of Colli Santi, creating a new label “L’Onda”. A “new story” begins and the new generation of artisan winemakers is born with respect for nature and tradition, of which Maria Ernesta is representative.

Geminiano

His curiosity for life in all its facets and love for nature leads him to do many different experiences. He starts practicing the profession of geologist for about fifteen years. Meanwhile he practice other interests such as speleology, mountaineering, trekking and traveling around the world.
Not satisfied, in 2005 from a decisive turning point by engaging professionally in humanitarian projects that led him for ten years to live abroad in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, etc. At the same time his interests also change towards permaculture, natural building, agriculture, sustainability etc., getting to know renowned people such as Satprem Maini, Geoff Lawton, Michael Smith, Richard Wade, Johan Van Lenghen, Ernst Gotsch, Jairo Restrepo Rivera, Eugenio Gras, Joel Salatin and lastly Radko Tichavsky who gave him the definitive orientation towards the agro-homeopathic approach he is applying in his last venture that began in 2015 after meeting Maria Ernesta.

Maria Ernesta and Geminiano, artisan winemakers in Piglio

In 2015 Maria Ernesta and Geminiano meet each other, they join their lives forming a beautiful family together with their two daughters Elena and Beatrice and a son, Luigi Manfredi, and combine their vineyards between Piglio and Paliano starting a modern winery that goes beyond organic farming, aligned to natural dynamics and making use of homeopathic treatments.

Our principles

Awareness, respect and loyalty to the agricultural context.

We produce healthy grapes and olives without added chemicals. The same principles are applied to the final consumer. We consider our farmland from the perspective of complex systems, where every single living being performs a specific function for the benefit of the entire system. Particular attention is paid to promoting biodiversity, the vitality of the soil and the bioavailability of organic substances in order to keep the system in good health and productive.

Particular attention to the promotion of biodiversity.

Our goal is to have a resilient agro system against adversity, able to cope with pests, diseases and climatic stress without the support of external products, capable of producing healthy grapes to make into wine and olives for oil.

Passion and stubbornness in wine activities.

The work in the vineyard is done by hand from pruning to harvesting. Access to the vineyard is banned to tractor, and ``staying in the vineyard on foot`` allows us to follow the progress of our work from the ground to the grapes and support the trend of phenological growth of the latter closely and intervene when necessary.

We grow healthy plants, able to face and resist pests, diseases and environmental stresses through targeted treatments without the help of chemicals.

The wooden vat where spontaneous fermentation takes place, an artisanal process carefully followed in all its phases in order to make our wine unique.

After delicately separating the juice from the skins, the pomace becomes part of the compost that nourishes the following year's harvest.

Our

Wines

Our wines are clarified through racking following the biodynamic lunar calendar and are not filtered during bottling. We produce five labels:

The winery

“Rifermentato”
Frizzante Frusinate IGT Passerina

CESANESE DEL PIGLIO DOCG

``L’ONDA``

Description

This still red wine was born in 2009, the year the “Nuovo Corso” began, whose symbol is the wave drawn on the label. From the first year he has seen vines born and grow. Today the Cesanese di Affile grapes come from the Paliano vineyard and a parcel from the Serrone vineyard.