Piaggia
In 1974, Mauro Vannucci was planning to build a house outside of Prato in which he would like to raise his family. His friend, Count Contini Bonacossi (owner of the historic Villa Capezzana estate) sold him a property in Poggio a Caiano with 2.5 hectares of vineyards in Piagia Cru.
In his spare time, Mauro began experimenting with winemaking, deeply convinced that his vineyard could produce world-class wines. In 1991, he bottled his Carmignano, naming the estate Piaggia after the vineyard of the same name. In 1993, at VinItaly, he met the legendary team of consultants Alberto Antonini (oenologist extraordinaire) and Federico Curtasa, who had been the Gaia family's in-house agronomist for twenty years. They were both impressed by Mauro's efforts and agreed to help him the following year. It was for the most difficult harvest of 1994 that Piaggia Carmignano Riserva received the prestigious Tre Bicchieri award from the Italian guide Gambero Rosso. By 2002, Robert Parker himself declared Piaggia Riserva 1999 "perhaps the best Carmignano in the appellation."
In his spare time, Mauro began experimenting with winemaking, deeply convinced that his vineyard could produce world-class wines. In 1991, he bottled his Carmignano, naming the estate Piaggia after the vineyard of the same name. In 1993, at VinItaly, he met the legendary team of consultants Alberto Antonini (oenologist extraordinaire) and Federico Curtasa, who had been the Gaia family's in-house agronomist for twenty years. They were both impressed by Mauro's efforts and agreed to help him the following year. It was for the most difficult harvest of 1994 that Piaggia Carmignano Riserva received the prestigious Tre Bicchieri award from the Italian guide Gambero Rosso. By 2002, Robert Parker himself declared Piaggia Riserva 1999 "perhaps the best Carmignano in the appellation."
