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Frank & Serafico<\/strong>, who are we?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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<\/strong> wines.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ok, well, that\u2019s not real! What is certain is that these names together with Enki, the Sumerian god of drunkenness <\/p>\n It is indeed a fantastic and evocative representation the one that hovers around Frank & Seraf\u00ecco<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Innovating means breaking with tradition, dispelling myths by creating them new.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378584313{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” el_class=”hide-on-tablet”][vc_column width=”1\/4″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/4″][vc_row_inner row_type=”expandable” text_align=”left” button_position=”left” more_button_label=”THE TRUE STORY …” less_button_label=”HIDE” css=”.vc_custom_1642499489418{padding-right: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner offset=”vc_hidden-sm”][vc_column_text]The Frank & Seraf\u00ecco<\/strong> project was born in 2009 from the meeting of Pier Paolo Pratesi<\/strong> and Fabrizio Testa<\/strong>, 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<\/strong>, from raw materials entirely obtained in the territory. This awesome context includes a restaurant<\/strong>, whose delicious dishes are the result of home-made creativity combined with self grown ingredients coming from the vegetable garden.<\/span><\/p>\n From 2018 the company changes structure: together with Russ Thomas<\/strong> and Chiara Ghiron,<\/strong> Pier Paolo Pratesi starts the farm made spirits <\/strong>production, after attending a training course in England at Salcombe – Devon County, for specific distillation techniques.<\/span> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641379161690{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” el_class=”hide-on-mobile”][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=”expandable” text_align=”left” button_position=”left” more_button_label=”THE TRUE STORY …” less_button_label=”HIDE” css=”.vc_custom_1642497640252{padding-right: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;}” el_class=”hide-on-desktop”][vc_column_inner offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n The Frank & Seraf\u00ecco<\/strong> project was born in 2009 from the meeting of Pier Paolo Pratesi<\/strong> (Seraf\u00ecco) and Fabrizio Testa<\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” el_class=”scolonna”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378119969{padding-top: 3% !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6145″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”enki-actor-svg”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Picture the classic, nostalgic winemaker, perhaps French, with a radical-chic, classy touch of a fallen noble: there you have it. Picture the classic, nostalgic winemaker, perhaps French, with a radical-chic, classy touch of a fallen noble: there you have it. If you think that a 100% Maremma inlander guy might have something to do with the ‘good savage’ you\u2019re terribly wrong! If you think that a 100% Maremma inlander guy might have something to do with the ‘good savage’ you\u2019re terribly wrong! Our Enki is a genie in a bottle! According to Sumerian mythology, he\u2019s 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. Our Enki is a genie in a bottle! According to Sumerian mythology, he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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. 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\nwho inspired the Enki Ales<\/strong>, embody the characteristics of the company and its products: bohemian, ironic and visionary.<\/p>\n
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>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.<\/span><\/p>\nBRAND SPIRITS<\/h2>\n
\u2014 who guide us and inspire us<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\nillustrious founders or important ancestors.
\nWe? We got inspired by our brand spirits, tutelary deities definitely over the top, with surprising characters.<\/div>\nfrank<\/h4>\n
\nFrank is all that and much more. He\u2019s a daydreamer loving to get lost in Nature, talk to plants and maybe declaim his poetry under the moonlight.
\nHe\u2019s the \u2018good taste\u2019 travelling among thickets and vineyards of Maremma.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378407955{padding-top: 3% !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”6145″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”enki-actor-svg”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nfrank<\/h4>\n
\nFrank is all that and much more. He\u2019s a daydreamer loving to get lost in Nature, talk to plants and maybe declaim his poetry under the moonlight.
\nHe\u2019s the \u2018good taste\u2019 travelling among thickets and vineyards of Maremma.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378129240{padding-top: 3% !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6150″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”.enki-actor-svg”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nseraf\u00ecco<\/h4>\n
\nCertainly Seraf\u00ecco is the good-to-taste in life: after a cold cuts platter and a toast with friends, away he goes singing at dusk.
\nBy telling proverbs and speaking rhymes, he\u2019d talk b******t to everyone, good, bad and uglies. Sometimes, when sober, you\u2019ll find him wandering in the park, looking for some juniper berries.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378389516{padding-top: 3% !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”6150″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”.enki-actor-svg”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nseraf\u00ecco<\/h4>\n
\nCertainly Seraf\u00ecco is the good-to-taste in life: after a cold cuts platter and a toast with friends, away he goes singing at dusk.
\nBy telling proverbs and speaking rhymes, he\u2019d talk b******t to everyone, good, bad and uglies. Sometimes, when sober, you\u2019ll find him wandering in the park, looking for some juniper berries.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378138215{padding-top: 3% !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6161″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”enki-actor-svg”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nenki<\/h4>\n
\nToday 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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1641378397946{padding-top: 3% !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”6161″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”enki-actor-svg”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nenki<\/h4>\n