In 1966, terrible flooding of the Arno River devastated Florence and its valley including the nursery where Villa Calcinaia sourced vines that year. When the flood hit, all the varietal identification tags on the vines were washed away. In the spring of 1967 Sebastiano Capponi's father and his agent ordered vines to plant seventeen acres of new vineyards, one of which was this Casarsa vineyard.