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Buy all of these wine and more @Winewatch.com Wine List: 2023 Castello del Terriccio Con Vento White Tuscany 2020 Castello del Terriccio Tassinaia Tuscany 2018 Castello del Terriccio Toscana IGT Tuscany 2015 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany 2010 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany 2008 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany 2007 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany 2006 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany 2005 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany 2004 Castello Del Terriccio Lupicaia Tuscany In this hilly territory viticulture dates back to the time of the Etruscans, who between 800 and 500 BC dominated this area of Tuscany, chiefly mining for its abundant minerals (many archaeological remains have been found on the property). The Castle of Doglia, known as Terriccio, which dates back to the Middle Ages was strategically built on a hilltop because it was used as a tower for transmitting signals to the inhabitants in the low-lying areas, giving them time to hide in the fortified castle when Saracenian sails were sighted. The Castello del Terriccio (Castle of the land) therefore dates back roughly 1000 years. Between the 13th and 14th century the bishop of Pisa, nephew to Pope Bonifacio VIII, in the name of the church gave the property in "emphyteusis" (a kind of low rent lease coupled with the right of assignment and the obligation to care for the property) to the Counts of Gaetani. At the end of the 18th century this branch of the Gaetani family was without an heir and Terriccio was purchased by Prince Poniatowski, an émigré or noble refugee from Poland, who owned the property until World War I. The Poniatowski family transformed the castle from its original function as a fortress into an agricultural complex designating land into farmland and deciding which lands where to be used for the cultivation of grain, olives and grapes, all which were the local produce of this area. This family also constructed the wine cellars, barns and farmhouses.