Francesca Balestrieri arrived in Tuscany’s Maremma to study art, but instead found herself captivated by a different form of creation, the craft of winemaking. Drawn to the earth, the terroir, and the ancient vines that define the region, she discovered a discipline as meticulous and expressive as the art she once pursued.
For Balestrieri, winemaking and art share the same precision. From her five hectares of vines, she produces a single wine: Animoso. She describes it as feminine, a wine with raw edges and an initial roughness that softens through long decanting. Free from additives, Animoso is conceived as an ode to purity, a tribute to the grape’s natural perfection and to the unfiltered expression of the land itself.
