Ca' Marcanda is Angelo Gaja's Bolgheri estate, planted in 1996 on the Tuscan coast to give the Piedmontese house a foothold in Italian Cabernet country. The estate runs across roughly one hundred hectares of vineyard above Castagneto Carducci and bottles a four-wine range that anchors on Bordeaux varieties.
Tuscany
Ca' Marcanda is the Tuscan arm of the Gaja family operation. Angelo Gaja, by then already the world's most recognised Italian winemaker through the family's Barbaresco estate in Piedmont, bought the Bolgheri land in 1996 after a long negotiation with the previous owners. The name Ca'marcanda is Piedmontese dialect for the house of negotiation and stuck as a self-deprecating nod to how hard the deal was to close.
The estate sits in the Alta Maremma above Castagneto Carducci, the village that gives Bolgheri DOC its identity. Around one hundred hectares of vineyard are planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Syrah, and Vermentino, mirroring the Bordeaux-leaning template that defines the Bolgheri zone alongside neighbouring estates like Sassicaia and Ornellaia. Construction of a dedicated cellar began in 1998; the current low-profile winery building sits half-buried in the landscape and was designed to disappear into the maquis.
The range comes in four steps. Promis is the entry-level Tuscan red, a Merlot-Syrah-Sangiovese Toscana IGT meant to be approachable young. Magari is a mid-tier Cabernet Sauvignon-Cabernet Franc-Merlot blend under Bolgheri DOC. Camarcanda is the flagship, a Cabernet-driven Bolgheri DOC that earned the estate its critical reputation. Vistamare is the white, a Vermentino-Viognier-Sauvignon Blanc blend.
Ca' Marcanda is one of three Gaja-family wineries (Barbaresco in Piedmont, Pieve Santa Restituta in Montalcino, Ca' Marcanda in Bolgheri). Each operates as a distinct physical estate under the same family ownership and winemaking team led by Gaia, Rossana, and Giovanni Gaja, the founder's children.
Ca Marcanda's current bottle selection is led by Toscana IGT. The clearest grape signal comes from Merlot and Sangiovese.
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