Description

It was 1980 when Pier Luigi Neri inherited a farm in Liguria, one of the smallest regions in Italy (5,420 km2) overlooking the Ligurian Sea, bordering France to the West, Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna to the North and Tuscany to the East. This is how the Neri family came into possession of a large 19th-century house with a large plot of land, a small paradise in the Sarzana countryside, in eastern Liguria, which over time has become one of the most appreciated wine-growing realities of the “Colli di Luni”, an area with Controlled Designation of Origin: Monticello.
The brothers Alessandro and Davide Neri, sons of Pier Luigi, are the custodians of those first Vermentino, Sangiovese, Canaiolo and Ciliegiolo vines planted more than 40 years ago and which their studies, respectively in engineering and agronomy, have been able to enhance to the fullest, making Monticello a successful company.
With more than 14 hectares of vineyards, the company today produces over 100 thousand bottles a year, a significant number for a difficult land like Liguria that gives nothing away, due to the steep slopes that hinder the cultivation and maintenance of the vineyards. But the care and respect for the vine, essential principles for the Neri brothers, repay every effort.