Petra

Beginning with Elisa Bonaparte and ending with Francesca Moretti, the path of Petra has had a female step for over two hundred years.
In 1808, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Napoleon's sister, Princess of Lucca and Piombino and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, chose this place to establish the first nucleus of an agricultural and wine-growing project. Two centuries later, during a road trip to Bordeaux with her father Vittorio, Francesca Moretti fell in love with the history and culture of the chateaux and decided to put aside the idea of becoming a veterinarian to study agronomy and oenology, immediately starting the search for a property to convert into a Bordeaux-style winery. Tuscany was perhaps an obvious choice in the years (the late 1990s) of his oenological renaissance, but not so obvious was his intuition to focus on the Maremma, and not on the Bolgheri area, but on the fertile Val di Cornia, with the collaboration of an excellent explorer like Attilio Scienza.
It was in 1997 that Vittorio Moretti bought 60 hectares in the locality of San Lorenzo and 45 in Campiglia Marittima, a few kilometres from Piombino, in Suvereto. It was a seed, the beginning of a profound and contemporary project. This is how the idea of Petra was born. It is here that Francesca Moretti has found her second home. A home in its own right, loved as much as her Franciacorta.