So what makes this wine so special? The fact is that grapes for this are grown not in a sunny valley, but in the very heart of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia.

Moreover, the plantation is placed on the roof of an Italian villa built in the 16th century. So the area of ​​the vineyard is incredibly small, just over 60 square meters.

The winery is called Via Mari 10, like the street where the villa is located.One harvest is enough for only 29 bottles of wine, each of which costs 5 thousand euros.

The rooftop vineyard appeared quite by accident. Its owner, Tullio Masoni, inherited a large winery from his father.

However, Tullio decided that it was not a particularly profitable business and sold the vineyards.

Alas, after some time Massoni regretted his decision. Eventually he followed in his father’s footsteps and started making wine as well.

True, he chose a very unusual place for his vineyards: the roof of an old villa.

Via Mari 10 is made from the Sangiovese grape

It is fertilized both by ordinary nutritious soil and by … the noise of the city.The latter is the main advantage of Via Mari 10 over all rural vineyards, says the owner.

In fact, no matter how good the wine is, Masson himself does not recommend drinking it. So, this is

not only the smallest vineyard on the planet, but also its owner is the only one in the world who calls not to drink the wine he created.

So what to do with Via Mari 10? The Italian considers his hobby an art, and every bottle created in the winery is a masterpiece.

And this masterpiece, like a painting or a statue, deserves to be an ornament of a house, a palace, a mansion, but it should not be drunk under any circumstances.

Mason’s wine is an occasion for a warm conversation between friends and a demonstration of a unique drink created in a small but wonderful villa in Italy.

By the way, you can’t buy Via Mari 10 from Masoni, it’s not available in stores either. Wine is only sold at the Bonioni Art Gallery, and even then not always; some bottles are given as gifts to regular customers.

The owner himself claims that the wine is incredibly exclusive, the very first sip ‘opens a completely new dimension for the mind’,and one will experience a great surprise.

Perhaps this is a clever advertising gimmick and perhaps the strangest and most ambiguous description of wine.

In addition, those who do not have the opportunity to throw away 5 thousand euros will have to accept the word of the enterprising Italian.