Tua Rita Keir

Wine Description

Keir means in old greek "working hands", meaning the hands that create the amphora.

Tua Rita is a winery situated in Suvereto, Tuscany. When Rita and Virgilio bought it in 1984, the land was supposed to offer just the picturesque surroundings in which they would live in touch with nature. Those original 2 hectares of vines have now become 51 hectares.Today, what started as amusing ‘vins de garage’, are wines that are exported everywhere in the world thanks to the marketing of Rita and Virgilio’s son-in-law, Stefano Frascolla.

The wines of Tua Rita all have one element in common: the personality of the earth with its ferrous notes and a penetrating and rapid, progressive development of their flavor.

Tua Rita Barrel Room
Tua Rita Family
Rita Tua, Owner
Tua Rita Vineyard
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Acclaim
“Chocolate-covered blueberries, coffee grinds and black pepper on the nose are echoed on the palate that offers more of the metallic tang of fresh pepper and top soil, but also the lushness of berries in chocolate, couched in gleaming, polished tannins.” — Wine Enthusiast, Oct 2023
“Marked by blackberry, black olive, bacon and black pepper aromas and flavors, this red delivers fine varietal character. Supple and harmonious, despite the firm structure, ending with a complex cascade of fruit, spice and mineral notes.”
— Wine Spectator, Oct 2023
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Vineyard & Production Info
Production area/appellation:
Val di Cornia
Vineyard size
1 hectare acres
Soil composition
Clay, lime, small rocks
Elevation:
164 feet
Exposure:
South
Year vineyard planted:
2004
Harvest time:
3rd week of September
First vintage of this wine:
2016
Bottles produced of this wine:
2,500
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Winemaking & Aging
Fermentation container:
amorpha
Type of aging container:
amphora for 6 months, 3 months in barriques
Size of aging container:
amphora 600-800 lt -barrique 225 lt
Total SO2
64
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Analytical Data
pH level:
3.63
Acidity:
0.44 g/L
Alcohol:
14.5 %
Dry extract:
31.8 g/L
Total SO2
64
Residual sugar:
0.95 g/L
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Wine Production

Keir spends six months in amorpha in contact with its skins, then rests for 3 months in french barriques. The amorpha enhances the varietal characteristics of the syrah.

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About the Vineyard

The vineyards are managed with the fundamental objective of helping the plants to protect themselves by guaranteeing, above all, the health of the soil and the environment by employing natural procedures. Tua Rita’s land lies on a gentle, continuous slope, in that strip of land in the Alta Maremma whose name derives from the Colline Metallifere.