STORIE DI VINI E VITICOLTORI
It’s not possible to talk about Radda in Chianti without thinking about the fact that this area, in the heart of Chianti Classico, has been underestimated for a long time because of its excessive altitude. This morphological condition allowed with great difficulty the Sangiovese to age properly and so the wines of Radda were almost always considered too thin, slightly scarce in substance. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico 2016, Azienda Agricola Caparsa
The history of the Badia (Abbey) in Coltibuono is very ancient: it was built around the church of San Lorenzo in Coltibuono, in the second half of the eleventh century, taking the name of Badia a Cultusboni, from the Latin cultus (agriculture) and bonus (good), which told how those lands had a particular vocation for agriculture. In fact, the work of the Vallombrosan monks, the Badia inhabitants, was focused on the revival of agriculture, based mainly on the oil and wine production, the same conduct long before them by the Etruscans and the Romans until 300 BC.. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva 2010, Badia a Coltibuono
The existence of the Castle of Volpaia is already documented in a tax writing of 1172: it is a castle built around the 10th century, in a border area between Florence and Siena, to protect the Florentine borders from its strategic position, on a hill between two small valleys. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Il Puro 2015, Castello di Volpaia
The first historical sources, dating back to the 10th century, speak of the Poggio di Monteraponi, in the heart of the Chianti Classico territory, on which stood the homonymous village. Right in this enclave, which already at the time owned cellars for wine production, under the Poggio’s tower, now stands the farm Monteraponi, founded in 1974 and still managed by Michele Braganti. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva Il Campitello 2015, Monteraponi
Capannelle winery was born from an idea of the Roman entrepreneur Raffaele Rossetti who, in 1974, bought an old seventeenth-century farmhouse in the heart of Chianti Classico, in Gaiole, and 10 and a half hectares of vineyard. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Gran Selezione 2013, Capannelle
Castell’in Villa is a small Tuscan village located in Felsina Berardenga from the province of Siena, in Chianti Classico area, originating from a small town of 13th century. Currently it is the seat of the homonymous company, purchased in 1967 by Riccardo Pignatelli della Leonessa [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva 2013, Castell’in Villa
Fattoria di San Giusto lays in Gaiole, one of the most famous Chianti Classico areas. Its vineyards were famous since ancient time and in 1200, there within, was built a castle which today houses the cellars. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva Le Baròncole 2016, Fattoria San Giusto a Rentennano
This is the story of an estate formed around the first hectare of land, on the Tuscan hills, in 1974, by Giuseppe Castiglioni. The initial idea was to produce great wines from Sangiovese but also from Bordeaux vines, [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva 2016, Querciabella
Coltassala is a wine originally conceived with the precise purpose of creating a Superwine. Initially labeled as Vdt (Table Wine), it immediately met the approval of the international press, which acclaimed him as a true Supertuscan. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Coltassala 2016, Castello di Volpaia
Gabriele Buondonno established in 1988 a winery on a terrain known under the name of Casavecchia alla Piazza, a terrain anciently purchased by Michelangelo Buonarroti himself in 1549 in order to produce wine. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva 2016, Casavecchia alla Piazza
Fattoria Poggerino lies in the heart of the Chianti Classico area, in the Radda in Chianti sub-area. The estate, formerly belonging to Prince Ginori Conti, was inherited by his daughter Floriana who started producing wines in 1980 together with her husband Fabrizio Lanza. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico NUovo 2016, Fattoria Poggerino
Castell’in villa lies in the homonymous burgh, known by 1200, in Felsina Berardenga sub-region of Chianti Classico, in the Province of Siena. Here Riccardo Pignatelli della Leonessa, in 1967, bought a 300 hectares land [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva Poggio delle Rose 2006, Castell’in Villa
What else can you ask to a wine whose reputation persuaded a Hollywood writer to put it into a movie? In “Because i said so” Tom Everett Scott, seated in a very elegant restaurant with Diane Keaton, orders a bottle of “Chianti Classico il Poggiale!” [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva il Poggiale 2016, Castellare di Castellina
Great Elegance and balance are Castelo di Ama wines classic aspects. This San Lorenzo label specifies that it is a “GRAN SELEZIONE” Chianti Classico. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Gran Selezione San Lorenzo 2015, Castello di Ama
Probably the most famous Fattoria di Felsina Chianti Classico, awarded by the most important wine critics in Italy and abroad. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva, Rancia 2017 Fattoria di Felsina
