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Enoteca Compagnia Dei Vinattieri

Tenuta di Capezzana

In Carmignano vines have been cultivated already in the pre–Roman era, about 3,000 years ago, as evidenced by vases for wine and tasting cups found in Etruscan tombs.

In the archives of the state in Florence, a parchment dated 804 has been found: it is a lease contract which provides documentary evidence that already 1,200 years ago in Capezzana vines and olive trees were cultivated for the production of oil and wine.

In the early Renaissance a woman, Monna Nera Bonaccorsi, built the first “Casa dei Signori” and nine farm houses with their planting of vineyards. Other generations and families have come and gone in the grounds of the estate: the Cantucci, related with the Medici family, who for over 150 years have owned and improved the company. In particular, Maria Maddalena Cantucci, married in 1734 to the Marquis Bourbon del Monte, purchased new lands increasing the number of farms, created new vineyards and built a new largest winery and other corporate buildings. Its perfect administration is witnessed by account books – yet in the archive of Capezzana – where all is annotated with precision.

Alessandro Contini Bonacossi bought Trefiano and the farm of Poggetto from the Marquis Amman Niccolini bringing the number of homesteads to 125. A new vat cellar was built, designed by the architect Michelucci, the area cultivated with vines was brought to 100 hectares, and wine and oil was exported all over the world.

Tolaini

Pierluigi Tolaini, after a career as an entrepreneur in Canada, went back to Italy in 1998, to buy lands suitable for viticulture on a large scale. He chose the properties of Montebello and San Giovanni near Castelnuovo Berardenga, for an extension of 108 hectares of land among vineyards, olive groves and woods.



The intention was that to reorganize completely the state of the existing vineyards, farming systems and related structures. In 1999, the renovation of the estates of Montebello and San Giovanni began, also realizing offices, wine cellars and housing for workers. In 2000, the most important work of this project started: the construction from scratch of the barrel cellar.

Castello di Fonterutoli

Fonterutoli is located 5 km south of Castellina in Chianti (Siena), on the hills that face Val d’Elsa, in the heart of Chianti Classico. Owned by the Mazzei family since 1435, it still retains its original appearance of a quiet country village: a few houses, the church of San Miniato and the villa, built at the end of the sixteenth century replacing the fortified castle.

The company now covers a total area of ​​650 hectares, of which 117 are specialized vineyards, divided into five zones: Fonterutoli, Siepi, Badiola, Belvedere, Caggio, located between 230 and 500 meters above sea level with exposures to the south and south–west.

The structure of the soil results from the disintegration of alberese and sandstone rocks, and is very rich in stones, so that the wine of Fonterutoli is often called “the wine of the stones”. Hence, the choice of an environmentally friendly cultivation and of a production of less than 40 hectoliters per hectare, ensuring a very high quality and a personality that is always very strong and recognizable. The excellent exposure of the vineyards, the exceptional soils and microclimate conditions and the density of vines, brought progressively to over 7,000 plants per hectare, allow to convey to the wines complexity, elegance and power.

Rocca di Montemassi

To produce intense wines, as the soul and scents of Maremma, to rediscover the local history and to enhance the strength of the territory. These were the objectives that drove Gianni Zonin to create, in a land with an unmistakable identity as Maremma, Rocca di Montemassi Estate.



The estate is situated in the locality of Pian dei Bichi, under the historical fortress of Montemassi, in the municipality of Roccastrada (Grosseto), right in the center of the DOC Monteregio of Massa Marittima.
In this charming corner of Tuscany, in the Mediterranean scrub lapped by the sea and on metal–bearing hills, which saw the Etruscan civilization, on gentle slopes covered with vineyards and olive groves, the property extends over 430 hectares, of which 160 are vineyards.

Five years of work were necessary in order to recover the old business core, the manor house and other farm buildings that now house the winery, the offices and the Museum of Rural Civilisation, where over three thousand ancient instruments relating to the life in the countryside between the the sixteenth and the early nineteenth century are collected.

«I was struck by the intensity of light, the scents of this land, by the landscape nestled in mighty hills. I felt it was a terroir of very high vocation for growing grapes, already known in the fourth century BC, and I decided to come here to produce excellent wines that express all the strength and charm of Maremma», Gianni Zonin tells.

In this enchanting land, today considered a reservoir of absolute quality and a new frontier of Italian viticulture, Sangiovese, Vermentino, Viognier, Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc, Merlot and Syrah are grown with absolute respect for the environment of Tuscany and Maremma.

The structure of the estate in itself – surrounded by pine trees, cork oaks, vineyards and olive trees, which reflect on the small natural lake inhabited also by swans – is part of this project of total integration with nature.

Fattoria San Giusto

The Farm develops over an area of ​​160 hectares, of which: 31 of vineyards, 11 of olive groves, 40 of woodland, 78 as arable land, meadow and pasture. The soils are highly variable, tuffaceous with more than 70% sand, sandy silt, sandy clay, alkaline, calcareous soils.

The average altitude is of about 270 m above sea level, the microclimate characterized by extreme temperature changes between day and night, often by medium to high temperatures even during the harvest. The vineyards are all in a privileged position and exposure.

The processings are still mainly manual, performed with assiduous care.

In San Giusto a Rentennano only grapes from owned vineyards are vinified. The grape production/plant rate is reduced by thinning the clusters in July/August, to the extent of 30–50% of the spontaneous load, according to the need of the vintage.

The company practices organic farming.

Salcheto

There should be a synergy among the earth and all living beings, including humans. In Salcheto we try to respect this relationship on a daily basis, while maintaining a balance with nature, through agricultural practices and processes of sustainable transformation in the wine cellar. This approach includes non–invasive methods of cultivation of biodynamic and organic types, as well as the continued protection of water and energy resources.



In substance, our goal is to work in respect of the environment to create the ultimate expression of quality and authenticity in our wines. In this spirit, we hope to bring romance and passion to the science of producing good wine, weaving deep–rooted traditions with modern technologies. This is the challenge of a lifetime, like ours, that we want to take very seriously, or at least as serious as passionate young winemakers could do.



And putting the wine aside just for a moment, we would like to shed light on the history of Salco, our most important vineyard that has become a label. The term, in the ancient Tuscan language, means “willow”, while Salcheto is the name of the creek that runs through our land. Along its course, once a large number of willow trees grew, whose branches were used to tie the vines. We have started to replant willows in areas of the estate are not suitable for viticulture and we will use their wood to warm up, with the intent to create an eco–friendly system within the company that is 100% energy independent.

Poderi Boscarelli

Boscarelli Estates are located in a historical zone of the DOCG Vino Nobile: Cervognano.

300 m above sea level, on the south–eastern side of Montepulciano, looking at Valdichiana, it enjoys an excellent ventilation heat, which favours a microclimate highly suited to quality viticulture.

The soils have alluvial origins, are stony and sandy, allow good drainage and provide high elegance to grapes.

This has always motivated the family in engaging with commitment to the pursuit of quality that these factors allow to achieve.

The extreme attention in viticulture and in the vineyard’s management has led – with gradual replantings started at the end of the 80s – to a density of vines around 6,000/7,000 plants per hectare.

The yield per plant is of about 1.3 kg of grapes.

Salustri Leonardo

In the heart of Maremma, on the slopes of Monte Amiata, the Azienda Agricola Salustri is located, in a land where the winds of the sea blow, whose ideal microclimate has always allowed agriculture with organic management.

Here, the Salustri family has been devoting itself to agriculture, producing wine and olive oil of quality, respecting the environment and the Maremma traditions.

Collemassari

The brothers Maria Iris and Claudio Tipa, who have always shared the passion for nature, for vineyards and for great wines, have fulfilled their dream creating a “Domaine” in Tuscany.

The current Collemassari includes two estates: the castle of ColleMassari, purchased in 1999 and Grattamacco, managed since 2002 and at a later stage bought in 2007.

Castello ColleMassari company was founded in 1998 and is included in the DOC Montecucco in High Maremma among the DOCG Brunello di Montalcino and the DOCG Morellino di Scansano and enjoys the ideal conditions to breed Sangiovese.

The first vintage was produced in 2000.

Fattoria di Felsina

Domenico Poggiali bought Felsina farm in 1966 and with a courageous act, during that difficult time of Italian viticulture, he chose to invest on the quality of wine and on the expertise of some young people.
Lovers of viticulture and skilled entrepreneurs, Domenico and his son Giuseppe modernized the management of the country without abandoning the spirit of tradition. Within a few years, the hectares of vine became more than forty and they also changed the essence and the organization of the company. In the second half of the seventies, his son–in–law Giuseppe Mazzocolin entered the company with the task to develop commercially the company. His humanistic culture and his awareness of the responsibility of man in his work contributed to the growth of the culture of wine in Italy and abroad, obtaining his first international recognition. His friendship with Veronelli and his collaboration with the winemaker Franco Bernabei have charted a course that reveals itself with extreme consistency in wines from the 1983 vintage, the first of Fontalloro and Rancia, up to the present days. Under the guidance of Domenico and Giuseppe Poggiali, a path begins, that since 1990 sees even Giovanni Poggiali as protagonist, the first of the three children of Giuseppe.

Podere Poggio Scalette

POGGIO SCALETTE ESTATE becomes a wine company in 1991, when Vittorio Fiore and his wife Adriana Assjè di Marcorà buy, on the Ruffoli Hill, in the municipality of Greve in Chianti (Florence), in the heart of the production area of Chianti Classico, some plots of land and a rural farmhouse coming from an estate division and from the sale of several real estate assets, including farmhouses, lands with vineyards, olive groves, pastures and forests, almost abandoned for years after the death of the former owner.