Piandistantino wine was born from an idea of mine (Andrea) and of my brother Martino, the chef and owner of the farm. In 2016 I began to search for, cultivate and recover old abandoned vineyards from neglect, a small agricultural reconquest of the mountain area included in the municipalities of Rocca San Casciano, Portico di R., on the border with the Casentinesi Forest National Park. The vineyards, located on marly/arenaceous soils in the upper Montone and Tramazzo valleys, are located at an altitude between 350 and 500 meters and range in age from 20 to 80 years. In 2018 we took over management of another vineyard of around 9000 meters near Tredozio, the only one we cultivate with a tractor. Hand-made pruning, mowing and copper and sulfur treatments, and once in the cellar start of spontaneous fermentations and aging only in steel and concrete, no fining, and use of sulfur dioxide only in exceptional cases. Until the 1950s, viticulture was well present in the upper Apennines, almost all farmers had vineyards and produced their own wine. Then with the depopulation of the mountains, viticulture almost disappeared from these territories. Hence the idea of recovering and cultivating the few remaining vineyards and producing a «mountain wine» with its own recognizable identity.