Wineries

Conti Costanti

The territory covers 25 hectars. Vineyards cover more or less 10 hectares, the remaining surface is composed of a specialized olive grove (2 hectares), arable soil and wood. The altitute of the vines, for which the best exposures have been chosen, ranges from 310 to 440 meters above sea level. Vines have an age ranging from 6 to 25 years. The vineyard is almost entirely grown with the “Sangiovese locally called Brunello” variety. Recently, 3 hectares of Merlot and Cabernet have been planted.
The soils are very poor organically but abundantly rocky, geologically belong to the marl of the Cretaceous period. The density of planting varies between 3,333 and 5,500 vines per hectare. The harvest usually takes place in early October.

Poggio Antico

The company covers approximately 200 hectares of woods, vineyards, olive groves and arable land.



The vineyards of Poggio Antico, at an average altitude of 450 meters above sea level, are among the highest in Montalcino. The constant breezes of this altitude sweep the fog and the humidity of the evening and the morning, and dry quickly grapes after rain, preventing the formation of mold and allowing us to avoid the relative treatments. This privileged position and the high exposure to south–southwest of the vineyards ensure optimal conditions, especially during the crucial period of maturation, when grapes reach a perfect balance between sugar and acidity.



The land – calcareous, stony and rich in marl – ensures excellent drainage and is particularly suitable for the production of quality grapes destined for wines of great body, such as Brunello di Montalcino. The combination of factors such as altitude, the location and the soil features, give the Poggio Antico wines a special character and great elegance.



Approximately 32.5 hectares belonging to the company are made up of vineyards. Of these, 15.5 hectares were planted in the 70s and are now being replaced with new plants that have led to a density of 6,060 plants per hectare. To cope with the continuous increase in the demand for Poggio Antico wines, it was decided to increase the surface area of hectares rather than increasing yields at the expense of quality. As a result, 17 hectares more were planted in May 1997 and in May 2001.



Today, the total planted area is of 30 hectares respectively of Sangiovese (also called Brunello when planted within the only territory of Montalcino) and 2.5 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon, planted in 1997 and used, in conjunction with Sangiovese, for our P.G.I. wine, Madre, created with the 2001 vintage.

Brancaia

Brancaia is in Chianti Classico, with two estates in Brancaia and Poppi owned by the Swiss Brigitte and Bruno Widmer in 1981. Barbara and Martin Kronenberg–Widmer run together the company located in the heart of Chianti Classico.

The company has immediately been talked about, reaching just with the 1983 vintage the first place in an important tasting of Chianti Classico. Over the years, after a continuous research for quality and a strong identity, the position of Brancaia has strengthened further, also thanks to the most important wine of the company: Brancaia IL BLU, that is already a classic for many wine lovers all over the world.

Martin Kronenberg is responsible for the company management and the worldwide distribution. Barbara Kronenberg–Widmer, as a oenologist, takes care of production. They are supported by the renowned oenologist Dr. Carlo Ferrini.

Brancaia, today, is one of the most innovative companies in Tuscany. Each year its products are rewarded at national and international level. The Brancaia wines are distributed successfully worldwide.

Fattoria Nittardi

Nittardi farm is situated half way between Florence and Siena, in the historic heart of Chianti Classico, 8 km north of Castellina in Chianti. The earliest written documents, preserved in Pieve della Piazza, reports the “Nectar Day” Tower (1183), land cornerstone of the debated border between the provinces of Siena and Florence. In the sixteenth century Nittardi became property of Michelangelo Buonarroti who, eager to offer to the Pope “a genuine gift” asked his nephew Lionardo, administrator of his lands in Chianti, to send to Rome some Nittardi wine.

Nittardi farm is now a winery that produces wine, olive oil and grappa. We produce two wines that bear the historic emblem of Chianti Classico, Casanuova di Nittardi and Nittardi Reserve. We also created two new wines of Maremma, the prestigious Nectar Dei, which immediately aroused great enthusiasm, and Ad Astra, wine of the highest pleasantness.

Tenuta di Lilliano

Lilliano has known sieges and destruction during the wars between Florence and Siena because of its location on the border between the territories of two large and quarrelsome republics and its proximity to important strongholds such as Staggia, Castellina in Chianti, Monteriggioni.

Thus, while keeping the medieval plant, evident in the topography, in cellars and walls, the architecture has come to the current nineteenth–century style in several phases. The wine bottling and marketing activity started in 1958 by Princess Eleonora Ruspoli Berlingieri, whose family purchased the estate in 1920. Giulio and Pietro Ruspoli are the current owners.

The agricultural company offers hospitality, with the farmhouse (agriturismo) fromula, tasting and direct sale in the cellar of the Chianti Classico and other products.

Salvioni

Cerbaiola Salvioni company is located about 1 km from the town of Montalcino, on a ridge 420 m above sea level. The vineyard, completely planted with Brunello di Montalcino, covers approximately 4 hectares. The production of bottles is of 15,000 per year divided into Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino. In the company there are two cellars, one within the company, where all the operations of harvest, vinification and storage of Rosso take place, and one located in the historic center of the city and is used for the storage of Brunello, that rests in barrels of 20hl on Slavonian oak. The company is led by Giulio Salvioni, his wife Mirella and their children David and Alessia.

Fattoria Poggio di Sotto

The Poggio di Sotto farm is certainly considered one of the most important and most well–established firms in the district of Montalcino. Of property of the Mrs. Elisabeth and Mr. Piero Palmucci, since 1989 it can boast some of the best territories with regard to the cultivation of the Sangiovese Grosso grape variety in the southern slope of Montalcino, old vineyards in the territory of Castelnuovo dell’Abate, near the Abbey of Sant’Antimo.

A scrupolous attention of the vineyard and the winery are under the supervision of a great man of wine like Giulio Gambelli.

Having the opportunity to meet and speak with Mr. Palmucci in one of our visits to the companies that most interest us, was for us a great honor.

Pian dell'Orino

We have created our farm in a place of great tradition next to Greppo of the Biondi Santi family. Our love for Tuscany and our passion for viticulture bind us deeply to our land, vineyards and our wines.



Our wines come from four different vineyards which together add up to about six hectares. When we set up our farm, we began immediately to study the history and structure of the soil, to understand in depth its characteristics. Fossil inventories, petrified shells, calcareous sediments are witnesses of the evolution of the earth, which manifested itself with marine floods and periods of drought.



The research and reflections that we do on our lands allow us to grow them so as to produce wines with very strong personalities, which reflect the character of each vineyard in a clear and recognizable way.

Poliziano

The Poliziano farm, founded in 1961 from a core group of 22 hectares, over the years has grown to reach its present size of 120 hectares, all planted with vines. Its name is a homage to the humanist poet Angelo Ambrogini (1454–1494), called the "Poliziano", who was born in Montepulciano. The farm is located near the village of Montepulciano and the vineyards are mainly located on the southern coasts that from Montepulciano decline towards the east in the direction of Valiano.

The wine cellars, where the delicate operations of vinification, maturation and aging of wines take place, are cared to the smallest detail and show the story of the company in its fifty–year journey.

Castell'in Villa

Tenuta di Trinoro

Val D’Orcia is located up high between two mountains like a big bowl of blue clay; beyond the lands, the mountains descend quickly to the sea or in the deep valleys of the interior.

The air twirls with temperatures that are more harsh than all those of the rest of Central Italy, the rains fall out the edges of the "bowl" and the weather turns around.

It is an advantage to make wine in the strangeness of the climate because vines behave in a distorted manner and wines are amazing.

Those arriving in a desert and virgin place like Val D’Orcia, finds powerful images that come out from nameless forces.

A vinegrower can woo these pictures for years without ever understand them at all, but in the meantime he transmits a unique style to his wines.

Badia a Coltibuono

Badia a Coltibuono or the abbey of the good harvest, was founded by the monks of Vallombrosa about a thousand years ago, as a place of worship and meditation. In 1051, the monks of the Vallombrosa order began to build the monastery of the Good Harvest planting at the same time the first vines in this area.

In the fifteenth century Coltibuono experienced a further development under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici. In 1810, under the Napoleonic rule, the monks were forced to leave Coltibuono. In the following years, the property was first sold through a lottery, and in 1846 and was bought by Michele Giuntini, Florentine banker and ancestor of the present owners.

Under the guidance of Piero Stucchi Prinetti, the farm was transformed into a company establishing itself in Italy and abroad. Today, his children Emanuela, Paolo and Guido continue the work undertaken by their ancestors more than a century ago.