Hard work and great passion, this is the recipe that we use to produce our wines, the other ingredients are gifted to us, the land and air found in this small corner of Tuscany: the hills of San Macario in Lucca.  Il Calamaio was founded in 2003 with an acquisition of a neglected property in San Macario, about 5 km from the city center of Lucca in Tuscany.
From the beginning of our adventure, we concentrated our forces in producing  a wine, that although an expression of the territory, was not be taken for granted nor predictable.  We have planted new cuttings of different Sangiovese clones, while at the same time working hard to recuperate the old vineyard (60/70  years old), abandoned for years.  We also found space for a small vineyard of Merlot and to plant some vines of Chardonnay and Petit Manseng from which our white wine is born.  In 2009, we built a new functional and modern cellar, Our winery is verysmal,  only  8-10 thousand of bottles of terrific real tuscan wine!