History
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The story of Tenuta Vitanza begun in 1994 when Rosalba Vitanza and his to be husband Guido Andretta went for a romantic week-end in Montalcino in province of Siena. They were guest of a friend, now a fellow producer, that told them he was trying to sell the original property in Montalcino to buy a bigger place also in the area. At that time they was both living in Rome.
Guido is an Aerospace Engineer and was doing business as Management Consultant with his own company based in United Kingdom and United States. He was Managing Director of a management and training consultancy with full responsibility, with Decision Makers as clients in medium to large size organizations in public and private sectors working in different areas like transportation, pharmaceutical, banking, services, telecommunications, etc.
Rosalba has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and she was doing some teaching jobs at Rome University La Sapienza. As she said she doesn’t change much her job because she can use a lot of her philosophical studies in her winemaking techniques even if after everything is done with the help of chemistry that translate the poetry of the wine in the wine itself.
In 1994 so they decide to buy this first property, Podere Renaione, a country house build before 1600, together with 4 acres of vineyard, oliv trees and fruit trees with the idea of doing some wine for them and their friends. Rosalba took full responsibility of the estate and started to getting into winemaking with the help of a Famous consultant enologist of Siena.