Bulichella · Suvereto, Tuscany
The winery with roots in soil, family and a long Japanese adventure
Bulichella is located at Suvereto on the Tuscan coast, where sea air, warm fields and organic cultivation meet in wines with both tranquility and depth. It is the winery behind Villa Bianca's Bulichella wines.
History
From Maebashi to Suvereto
The story begins with Hideyuki Miyakawa, who as a young man traveled from Japan to Europe on a motorcycle. In Italy, he met Marisa Bassano, and after years in Turin, the family continued towards Tuscany. In 1983, Azienda Agricola Bulichella was founded at Suvereto as a place where agriculture, community and respect for nature should go together.
Bulichella was run early on with an ecological idea: the land should be treated as something alive, not just as something to be exploited. Today, the farm is still associated with the Miyakawa family and with an idea of wine as an expression of place, people and vintage.
The space
Suvereto close to the sea
Bulichella is located in the Val di Cornia near the medieval town of Suvereto. The area is known for warmth, light and a coastal freshness, which gives the wines their balance of ripe fruit, structure and slightly salty minerality.
Production began with Sangiovese, Vermentino, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Later, the winery has continued to work with, among others, Cabernet Franc, Syrah, Petit Verdot and Grenache to find the grapes that best tell about Sovereto's soil and climate.
The wines at Villa Bianca
Five bottles from the same house
Tuscanio Bianco shows the bright, fresh side of Bulichella. Rubino is the open red for the table. Coldipietrerosse and Montecristo go deeper into the Suvereto DOCG with Cabernet, Merlot and Petit Verdot, while Hide is the winery's pure Syrah with dark fruit and spicy calm.
Read the page as a background for the wines: not as a technical data sheet, but as the story of why exactly Bulichella fits into Villa Bianca's small southern European universe.
To the table
Wine, cheese and enough time
The Bulichella wines are chosen for the kind of table where the bottle does not stand alone: cheese, a simple dinner, good bread, some salt and conversations that are allowed to linger.
