When it all began
We go back 50 years to when Grandpa Corrado and his wife Dina left Poggibonsi to go to Piombino with their sons Metello and Marcello and start a wine business.
The first wine cellar was in a little rented shop. Later they bought a piece of land in the centre of the town where, in 1970, they started work on building the new cellar. After the death of Corrado in 1973, Metello, his wife Ornella and Marcello took over the business and began working at full speed. They brought the business up to being one of the biggest on the Tuscan coast. Alessandro came into the business in the 80s, working alongside his father and his uncle who had full confidence in the ‘new generation’.
Meeting Susy, who was to become Alessandro’s wife, in the 90s, was crucial to the growth of the business. Her innovative ideas and youthful outlook provided it with an inspired asset that was totally new, a new image: the future.
Passion
Today’s strong family business benefits from the help of the valued co-workers who work with the same enthusiasm and wish to improve, as the family, and together we do our best to raise the name of the Menti Family’s 3 generations higher and higher.
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The taste of doing things well
THE FUTURE IS HERE
VISION
Creativity and the wish to keep on improving never stops and it gives life to even better projects.
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La storia
THE WINE BUSINESS BEGINS
Corrado and his wife Dina moved to Piombino and started their business
1950
THE WORK STARTED TO BUILD THE NEW WINE SHOP
They bought a piece of land in the centre of the town where they built the cellar
1970
METELLO, ORNELLA & MARCELLO BEGIN THEIR NEW JOURNEY
After the demise of Corrado, Metello, Ornella & Marcello started to work at full speed and brought the business up to being one of the biggest on the coast
1973
ALESSANDRO STARTS WORKING IN THE COMPANY
Alessandro starts working in the company alongside his father and his uncle who had full confidence in the ‘new generation’
THE END OF THE 80s
SUSY, LOVE, THE TRANSFORMATION
At the beginning of the 90s, they opened their first retail sales point where Susy dressed the shop windows to reflect local events. These were much admired.
Their Wedding in 1996. This marriage was to inspire a massive transformation that would mean a lot of changes to the use of space, an increase and broadening in the range of products, and a completely new image.
This third generation gave birth to new retail sales points, the future had begun…………..
END OF THE 90s – 2000
THE FUTURE – THE 3RD GENERATION
We are always ready to welcome
New challenges that will help us to continue to improve so that we can offer our clients the best, while we preserve the high standards of the work of the people close to us