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Carpineta Fontalpino has been belonging to the Cresti family since the 60s and there are marks of the company’s winemaking tradition dating back to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The farm is located in the heart of Tuscany, very close to the wonderful SIENA, in the historic municipality of Castelnuovo Berardenga, in the historic Montaperti area.
The territory that surrounds it is rich in history, legends and love.
It gives to those who have the luck to visit it intense emotions and unforgettable atmospheres.
We have the honor and privilege to live in it, and we try to keep landscape and traditions unchanged.
Gioia, the oenologist of the farm, deals with all the production stages, from vinification to aging, defining the most important choices and giving to the entire production his personal style.
Filippo, mainly deals with the commercial activity and marketing development.
The owned land stretches for about 80 hectares and have various cultivars.
The vineyard area extends for about 23 hectares of vineyards divided into blends of Sangiovese, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon vines, in addition to other fine experimental vines.
The production areas of the company are Chianti Classico and Colli Senesi.
Today, as in the eleventh century, the entire village is deeply involved in wine and olive growing, as vat rooms and wineries, vinsantaia and bottling place, orch room and oil mills, although very modern, are still housed in the basement, in the halls, in the desecrated churches and in the buildings of the village, joined together by an amazing underground wine duct. Volpaia is not, therefore, just a simple theater for tourists, but the center of a complex rural activity to which everyone living in the village is directly or indirectly related.
In the heart of Chianti, Agriturismo Monteraponi, is an ancient medieval village situated on the hill of the same name belonged to the Count Ugo Marchese and governor of Tuscany at the end of the tenth century, who donated it to the abbey he founded in Poggio Martori (High Poggibonsi).
The central structure remained almost intact, characterized by the presence of a tower with a square base. On the bridge house of the tower, archivolts, the typical windows of the twelfth century, are still visible and well–preserved. That building, for its central location and raised above the rest of the village, had to be the residence of the lord. Of the same period are the wine cellars beneath the tower surmounted by a large ceiling with a single vault, where the bottles of wine produced by the company are left to age.
Listening to the sound of silence. Admiring the shapes carved by vineyards and olive groves.
Let yourself be captivated by a unique wine, and discover its secrets. Let the wine be your therapy, let it regenerate you in your palate and your skin.
Rediscover the flavours of a simple kitchen made of real ingredients. Casa al Vento is the essence of Chianti: health and taste.
Borgo Casa al Vento is the result of a great and eternal love, of the extraordinary passion of Ria and Pine Gioffreda in creating this great work.
Villa Cerna has a vineyard park that starting from the half of the eightees has been renowed. They are technological vineyards with high plant density per hectare made with wonderful mass and clonal selections of the company of Sangiovese, that are perfect in a context of precision and cleanliness of the landscape.
The difference in the alkaline soils of Pliocene origin of the company as well as exposure, and microclimate, affect the selection of plots in the logic of differentiation between vintage and reserve. For choice, the labels of the Villa Cerna wines do not bear the name of a single vineyard.
The evolution of the wines of Villa Cerna is dynamic, without renouncing to the past but with the aim to create a wine typical of the territory where the grape blend is a choice of ours, while remaining within the parameters of the production specification.
In the eighteenth century, under the guidance of the Tempi family, Castagnoli was one of the most famous estates in the area, as well evidenced by the compliments of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo who, in 1773, on a visit to the Chianti area, praised its enlightened management, emphasizing the excellent condition of the farms and the very good living conditions of the peasants.
At the end of the eighteenth century, with the extinction of the Tempi family, Castagnoli went to the Ricasoli family. In 1924, the Rocca di Castagnoli farm, together with the most important companies in the area, founded the Wine Consortium of Chianti Classico.
Of course, many things have changed: since 1981, when the actual owners settled, extensive renovations to the villa and the stronghold have been carried out. Modern working methods, both in the vineyards and in the winery, have been introduced. A modern winery has been created, while the wine cellars of the medieval fortress have been converted into places for aging in wood.
When he decided to buy Castello d’Albola, after what he describes as a “lightning strike”, one of the aims of Gianni Zonin was to be able to give a new life to this production area of Tuscan wines of excellence. The construction of a new winery is part of this project.
After identifying the ideal position in order to reconcile the needs of production with respect for the surrounding landscape and environment, the structure was built on a panoramic hill at a short distance from the medieval village.
Carved into the rock, the wine cellar, which follows the natural slope of the hill above the vineyards and Castello d’Albola, is distributed on two levels. One external to the north, for the vinification of grapes and for technical areas, and an underground level allocated for two thirds to the storage of wines in stainless steel vats with controlled temperature thanks to a computerized system, and one third to the fining of red wines in oak barrels.
The bottling winery is separated from the mother and totally underground. The design of this premise has provided for the implementation of a green grass and the planting of olive trees above the roof to improve the inclusion in the surrounding agricultural context.
The vertical and horizontal structures, linear and simple in their architectural rigor, have been covered in local and of Alberse pietraforte and the roofings with a structure of lamellar wood for a front 100 meters long and 40 meters deep.
The historic underground wine cellars, with impressive vaults built in the past by the Pazzi family and by the Princes Ginori Conti – who lived in the ancient village of Albola, instead – have returned to life and now host large barrels of 60 hl of valuable Slavonian oak and other barriques in French oak from the Allier region.
Since 1993 at the head of the family business, Francesco Ricasoli renews the quality and personality of the great wines of Brolio, experimenting and enhancing the unique characteristics of the area and its history.
New labels are created, award–winning wines, known all over the world, are perfected: the research by Baron Ricasoli continues and gives new meanings to the wine culture and the art of drinking.
Tenuta Sesti is composed of 102 hectares (254 acres) of land, of which nine hectares of vineyard. The rest is cultived with olives or woods.
Vineyards are located in excellent position on the southern slopes of Montalcino, where some of the most prestigious Brunello come from.
Piancornello is a small company founded in 1991. It is located in the south of Montalcino, about 250 meters above sea level and in an area of sedimentary orgines, very rich in stones and rocks. The steep slopes, ranging from a 4% to 15%, and the particularly draining land for the presence of the stone, allow to have little moisture and to obtain very structured and mineral wines. The vineyards of Piancornello lie on a beautiful upland that borders south with the river Orcia, which after 45 km flows into the sea, blowing across the valley, where hot winds coming from the Mediterranean go up the river. These features allow to have quite early harvests.
Giacomo and Enrichetta, their sons Giovanni, Gianlorenzo and Marianna. This is the Neri family, who lives in the Fiesole farm, near the winery and in close relationship with another ideal family: that of their employees. Giacomo is the charismatic figure, who holds high the intuition of his father Giovanni: that to found an exemplary company in Montalcino. The goal was reached thanks to expertise, passion and dedication. They are human, salient traits of a high quality production that is identified with people, and especially with Giacomo.
La Togata is owner of a small company in Montalcino (Siena) consisting of an old farmhouse dating back to the seventeenth century, at that time subservient to the Castle of Argiano, and of a few hectares of land devoted to the cultivation of vines and olive trees.
In particular, regarding vineyards, the company has the availability of vineyards registered in the Brunello Register in the area of the Pieve of S. Sigismondo, in that of Montosoli and in that of Pietrofocaia. The lands are located at different heights and with exposure to the sun until sunset. The age of vineyards, from which grapes intended to produce Brunello are selected, is over 20 years.
The company has as its objective the production of a limited amount of bottles of Brunello di Montalcino, with unique characteristics in body, elegance and fragrance. The vineyards, extremely healthy, are subject to a double thinning of the bunches and, during harvest, the average criterion of choice, in the good years, is three out of five clusters. The grapes obtained in this way are subsequently selected in the cellar, where they are processed according to the old tradition. Wine, after being left to age three years in the barrel, is aged for at least twelve months in bottle before release. It has ruby red color, fruity bouquet, harmonious and velvety flavour, and is especially suitable for long aging.
In the heart of the Montalcino area, Brunello di Montalcino Donna Olga is produced. It owes its name to the producer, Olga Peluso Centolani, vinegrower, passionate woman of wine, since many years committed in the creation of excellent wines.
Of the 11 hectares belonging to the agriculture ownership, a small jewel of nature and landscape, Donna Olga cultivates only 4 with Brunello, with selected clones from Sangiovese and a density of more than 6,500 plants per hectare.
Thanks to his love for the Tuscan countryside, his love for the land, with its cycles, its fruits and its mysteries, he creates 20,000 bottles per year of Brunello di Montalcino, a combination of power and elegance, finesse and structure, harmony and ability of long–term aging, which offers to lovers around the world that sensory fulfillment that only Great Wines can give.
Collelceto farm owes its name to the many Elce (Holm Oak) trees, that create charm and colour the hill, south–west the municipality of Montalcino, on which its vineyards and winery are located.
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Castello di Argiano 53024
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Località Piancornello - Frazione Castelnuovo dell'Abate 53024
Montalcino (Siena)
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Podere Fiesole 53024
Montalcino (Siena)
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Loc. Tavernelle 53024
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Località Friggiali 53024
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Podere La Pisana 53024
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