Anima Mundi
Marta Sierota is the vigneronne behind Podere Anima Mundi. After growing up in Poland and France, Marta went on to receive her Ph.D. in Philosophy and taught for several years at a university. Here, she developed an interest in wine, eventually taking courses in winemaking, wine tasting, and biodynamic farming, as well as completing studies in wine management. In 2008, Marta moved her family to Tuscany in the small village of Usigliano, nestled in the heart of the Pisan hills. Her new home was surrounded by many beautiful but abandoned vineyards, which eventually inspired Marta to start her own wine project here. Since the beginning, Marta has believed that wine is a product of nature, so she decided to follow the rules of biodynamics at all steps of viticulture and vinification. The unique positioning of her estate means the vineyards benefit from the influence of both the 'tramontana' and the 'libeccio' winds, bringing cooling and aeration from the mountains and the sea and allowing her to cultivate vines with a non-interventionist approach. Marta’s wines are influenced by her French origins, believing that the terroir is the most important factor. To this end, she has chosen to produce only mono-varietal wines, which she considers the best way to express her unique terroir through the lens of a particular grape. In the cellar, fermentations are carried out spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel and without temperature control. The wines are not fined or filtered, and minimum doses of sulfites are used only at bottling.
