The first vintage of the Guado al Tasso estate’s Vermentino was in 1996. The property is located some 50 miles to the southwest of the city of Florence near the medieval hamlet of Bolgheri. In the Tuscan Maremma. The estate stretches for approximately 2500 acres (1000 hectares) from the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea all the way to the inland hills. In addition to the vineyards, which give the principal crop, there are, in addition, wheat, corn, and sunflower fields and olive groves as well.