Marzi family
Sestilio buys the lands
A CURIOUS BEGINNING
It was 1967 when Franco’s grandfather decided to buy the first lands, approximately 20 hectares. Why did he make this choice?
Franco was just born and his mother didn’t have enough milk to breastfeed him. Sestilio thus thought of raising some Chianina cows to feed his grandson with their milk.
FRANCO ARRIVES
In 1990, at just 23 years old, Franco began to take care of all aspects of the farm: the cultivation of barley and wheat and the work in the vineyards and olive groves.
purchase of new lands
Over the last 30 years the farm has grown, through a series of acquisitions, from the initial 20 hectares to the current 70 hectares of surface area.
Chianina breeding
In 2011 Franco and his son Dario decided to start a Chianina breed to distinguish themselves from the majority of companies in Val d’Elsa which produce, as tradition dictates, wine and oil.
Why do we have
a shell as a logo?
We are in the heart of an area with gullies that make the landscape characteristic.
The clayey soil is rich in fossils which emerge naturally after the rains.
For this reason we have chosen Cerithium, one of the most common fossils in the area, as the symbol of our farm.
The drawing was created by our friend Calvetti Fabio, a well-known painter of Certaldo.
Many of the fossil that have been found in our lands are exhibited at the GAMPS Earth Sciences Paleontological Museum in Scandicci (Florence).