Podere 414 is an organic estate winery in Magliano in Toscana in the Scansano region of coastal south-west Tuscany. Red wine is produced under the Morellino di Scansano DOCG.

Owner: Simone Castelli (son of Maurizio Castelli). A university graduate in agricultural sciences and oenology. Simon’s brother Gaddo handle sales and marketing.

Background: The name 414 is the number given to the farm (‘podere’) during the land reform in the 1960’s by the historical “Ente Maremma” during the splitting of the latifundium and the redistribution of the land lots to the “assignee” families. The families of the “Ente’s farms” inherited a completely savage land which was difficult to domesticate; the objective difficulties connected with the harshness of this place together with the concept of “bitter” and laborious agriculture didn’t let the settlers transform these places adequately but instead made them use the rural zones just for the subsistence farming. In 1998 a walk along Maremma’s countryside together with the father Maurizio, a famous Tuscan enologist, and the grandfather Giuseppe, in search of an ideal place for a wine farm gave birth to a simple and strong idea of creating Podere 414. Production is around 22,000 bottles.

Vineyards: 49ha of land of which 22ha are vineyards. Two vineyard sites. Mostly on ridges overlooked by the township of Montiano.

Organic certification: Yes.

Winemaking: Cement tanks.

Red wines

Flower Power:

Morellino di Scansano DOCG, Podere 414

Badilante: 100% Sangiovese. Named after the ‘bandilanti’, those who in previous generations prepared the land in this area for farming.

Aleatico Passito: 2013 Bottled. | 2014 Bottled.

Contact 

Podere 414

Loc. Maiano Lavacchio

I-58051 Magliano in Toscana (GR = Grosseto), Italy

Tel+39 0564.507818