While in most Italian prisons, inmates spend the majority of their time in lockdown, on Gorgona, inmates spend most of their time outside doing agricultural and viticultural work or tending livestock. The prisoners are only required to return to the facility for lockdown in the evening. In the history of the penal colony, only one prisoner is believed to have "escaped"; whether or not they survived the long swim to the Italian mainland is not known since they were never found. The only access to the island is via a weekly ferry that brings visitors and family members to the island, but the boat is not allowed to dock at the island. Instead, police launch boats transfer passengers from the boat to the island. The vineyard at the Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony was first planted in 1999 but was soon abandoned, only to be revived 10 years later by an inmate of the penal colony who had a family vineyard in Sicily and wanted to restore the Gorgona vineyards. In 2012, Italian prison authorities inquired with various Italian wineries about partnering with the penal colony to produce wine. Lamberto Frescobaldi, the current Marchesi de'Frescobaldi and 30th generation of the Tuscan winemaking family, saw potential in an east-facing plot of land on the island's mineral-rich vineyard soils, and decided to purchase the land. The Frescobaldis contracted with the penal colony to work the vineyard, providing training and expertise to inmates, and paying them a wage in exchange for the rights to sell the wine produced on the island. The wine produced at the penal colony is certified under the Denominazione di origine controllata classification and is labeled as "Frescobaldi per Gorgona" (or simply "Gorgona"), which Frescobaldi says will retail for $66 a bottle and be featured on the wine lists of several Italian restaurants including a Michelin Guide 3-star rated restaurant in Florence. The wine is a blend of Ansonica and Vermentino. Frescobaldi has stated that any profits made from the joint venture will be re-invested back into the penal colony and the winery is open to hiring former inmates for their other winery operations once they have been released. Plans are underway to expand vineyard plantings on the islands and to increase the house-capacity of the penal colony to 136 prisoners.