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Frank & Serafico, who are we?

 

The legend has it that two noble and ancient families, the Lombard Franchigi and the Tuscan Serafico, have united their knowledge giving life to the glorious tradition of Frank & Serafico wines.

 

Ok, well, that’s not real! What is certain is that these names together with Enki, the Sumerian god of drunkenness
who inspired the Enki Ales, embody the characteristics of the company and its products: bohemian, ironic and visionary.

 

It is indeed a fantastic and evocative representation the one that hovers around Frank & Serafìco.
The experimentation is the true setting of our ambitious company: a genuine thinking ‘out of the box’, a glitch among the wider Tuscan scenario of viticulture and agricultural productivity.

 

Innovating means breaking with tradition, dispelling myths by creating them new.

THE TRUE STORY ...

The Frank & Serafìco project was born in 2009 from the meeting of Pier Paolo Pratesi and Fabrizio Testa, two oenologists who decided to settle in Maremma, at the heart of the Natural Uccellina Park, to develop a unique reality. A Farm that independently produces wines and beers, from raw materials entirely obtained in the territory. This awesome context includes a restaurant, whose delicious dishes are the result of home-made creativity combined with self grown ingredients coming from the vegetable garden.

From 2018 the company changes structure: together with Russ Thomas and Chiara Ghiron, Pier Paolo Pratesi starts the farm made spirits production, after attending a training course in England at Salcombe – Devon County, for specific distillation techniques.

The company’s commitment today revolves around constant innovation, focusing on refinement but at the same time on simplicity and on excellent raw materials, to be enhanced in their naturalness, rather than through complex transformation methods.

THE TRUE STORY ...

The Frank & Serafìco project was born in 2009 from the meeting of Pier Paolo Pratesi (Serafìco) and Fabrizio Testa (Frank), two oenologists who decided to settle in Maremma and develop a unique project in its kind: producing wines and beers in total autonomy, starting right from the resources offered by the territory, as well as using natural ingredients, grown in their garden, for the Farm Restaurant delicacies.

 

The project revolves around the desire to create an innovative reality, based on refinement but at the same time on simplicity and on the selection of excellent raw materials rather than on their transformation through complex methods.

BRAND SPIRITS

— who guide us and inspire us
Many companies have seen their tradition traced by
illustrious founders or important ancestors.
We? We got inspired by our brand spirits, tutelary deities definitely over the top, with surprising characters.

frank

Picture the classic, nostalgic winemaker, perhaps French, with a radical-chic, classy touch of a fallen noble: there you have it.
Frank is all that and much more. He’s a daydreamer loving to get lost in Nature, talk to plants and maybe declaim his poetry under the moonlight.
He’s the ‘good taste’ travelling among thickets and vineyards of Maremma.

frank

Picture the classic, nostalgic winemaker, perhaps French, with a radical-chic, classy touch of a fallen noble: there you have it.
Frank is all that and much more. He’s a daydreamer loving to get lost in Nature, talk to plants and maybe declaim his poetry under the moonlight.
He’s the ‘good taste’ travelling among thickets and vineyards of Maremma.

serafìco

If you think that a 100% Maremma inlander guy might have something to do with the ‘good savage’ you’re terribly wrong!
Certainly Serafìco is the good-to-taste in life: after a cold cuts platter and a toast with friends, away he goes singing at dusk.
By telling proverbs and speaking rhymes, he’d talk b******t to everyone, good, bad and uglies. Sometimes, when sober, you’ll find him wandering in the park, looking for some juniper berries.

serafìco

If you think that a 100% Maremma inlander guy might have something to do with the ‘good savage’ you’re terribly wrong!
Certainly Serafìco is the good-to-taste in life: after a cold cuts platter and a toast with friends, away he goes singing at dusk.
By telling proverbs and speaking rhymes, he’d talk b******t to everyone, good, bad and uglies. Sometimes, when sober, you’ll find him wandering in the park, looking for some juniper berries.

enki

Our Enki is a genie in a bottle! According to Sumerian mythology, he’s supposed to be the Lord of the Oceans and of the life-giving groundwater. He loved beer so much that decided to make his daughter, Ninkasi, its goddess.
Today he is said to lead a life of a real artist constantly throwing parties and incredible banquets where he would bestow powers and talismans on his diners. Not everyone knows that its magic is enclosed within the fermentation bubbles.

enki

Our Enki is a genie in a bottle! According to Sumerian mythology, he’s supposed to be the Lord of the Oceans and of the life-giving groundwater. He loved beer so much that decided to make his daughter, Ninkasi, its goddess.

Today he is said to lead a life of a real artist constantly throwing parties and incredible banquets where he would bestow powers and talismans on his diners. Not everyone knows that its magic is enclosed within the fermentation bubbles.