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 Campo Alla Sughera
- The ancient village of Bolgheri is located in the Castagneto Carducci (LI) district. It extends between the hills and the strip of sea bound by San Vincenzo and Cecina. This is a part of the Tuscan coast that was dominated by the Etruscans in ancient times and has a very old wine-making tradition.
Count Gherardesca, founder of the small town that arose on the site of the ancient village and castle that were destroyed in 1393, gave a new boost to the economic development of this area in the 1700s and it became one of the most fertile and highest producing along the coast.
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Casa Sola - Fattoria Casa Sola
- Casa Sola is a farm located near the town of Barberino Val d'Elsa at 30 Km. from Florence and 28Km. from Siena, in the heart of the Chianti Classico Gallo Nero area.
It extends for a total of 120 hectares, 25 of which are invested in specialized vineyards and 40 in olive groves.
The remaining ground comprises fields and woods which create an ideal microclimate for grape maturation.
The favourable height of 330 meters above sea level surrounded by woods, our vineyards are on very permeable soil with a high content of calcium and limestone.
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Castellare di Castellina - Azienda Agricola Castellare
- Poderi Castellare di Castellina is a wine farm about 80 hectares wide in the heart of Chianti Classico region, in Castellina in Chianti . Poderi Castellare di Castellina is a wine farm about 80 hectares wide in the heart of Chianti Classico region, in Castellina in Chianti. Its vineyards are 22 hectares wide and are located on the hills of a natural amphitheatre facing south-east, at an average altitude of 370 metres above sea level.
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Castello del Terriccio
- Lying on hillsides that slope gently down to the plains and the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tenuta del Terriccio's 1,700 hectares offer panoramic views of extraordinary beauty.
The hill where the cellar is located commands a vista that embraces the sea and the islands of the Tuscan archipelago, then opens onto the Etruscan Coast. Behind, the rolling hills of Volterra, woodlands, Mediterranean scrub, olive groves and vineyards form a unique setting that alternates open countryside with broad swathes of green in an unbroken succession of natural features that have been well preserved from intrusion.
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Castello di Verrazzano
- The Castle of Verrazzano is located on a hilltop in the Chianti Classico area, the first grape growing and wine producing area in the world to be determined by an official proclamation, made by the grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici in 1716.
Its high position, over the Greve valley, was once of strategic-military importance; today it is possible to easily overlook the vineyards which fan out across the slopes to the edges of the wood further down the valley.
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Castello di Volpaia - Fattoria Castello di Volpaia di Giovanna Stianti
- The Castello di Volpaia was built in the 11th century as a fortified village on the Florence/Siena border. Although only part of the original protective walls and two of its six towers are still standing, the medieval layout and buildings within the village are still intact, making Volpaia undoubtedly one of the best preserved villages of its period.
The most important renaissance building is the Church of Sant'Eufrosino.
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Cennatoio - Cennatoio Intervineas
- Cennatoio is now a wine estate that Leandro and Gabriella Alessi have managed since 1971. Despite the passage of the years, however, the property has remained the same, “beautiful to see, ” as Cavalcanti said. Cennatoio commands a stupendous view of the Chianti countryside with its hills blanketed by vineyards and olive orchards and dotted by churches, castles and scattered stands of oaks, mighty trees that soar toward the sky high above.
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Cinelli Colombini - Donatella Cinelli Colombini
- Donatella Cinelli Colombini owns two farmhouses in Tuscany, in Montalcino and Trequanda, in the heart of Medieval Tuscany.
The Colle in Trequanda, is in the Chianti and Doc Orcia regions. It has more than 23 hectares of vineyard, cereals, white truffles, olive groves, and a country inn with 19 apartments, a restaurant, and 3 pools. The hospitality offered to the tourists is of various kinds: from the simplicity of peasant farm houses with their original furnishings to the finery of the bedroom made for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pietro Leopoldo and his amorous trysts.
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Crociani
- Arnaldo Crociani, a producer of fine wines in Montepulciano, belongs to a family whose members have spent a lifetime amongst vats, barrels, bottles and flasks. Arnaldo's father and grandfather were cellarmen to the Conti Samueli and he himself, since he was a boy, was cellarman to the Marchesi Ricci Paracciani and of the Cantina del Redi, which, in the 1950's, was the first cellar to open to the public. The owner of vineyards situated at Le Caggiole, one of the most attractive areas in the heart of the Vino Nobile production zone (described by Repetti in his renowned dictionary as: "a land habitually clad with a wonderful vegetation of choice vines of ancient olives.
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Guado al Melo - Podere Guado al Melo di Michele Scienza
- The estate Podere Guado al Melo is a property of 10 hectares situated on the Tuscan coast in the Municipality of Castagneto Carducci (Livorno) in the heart of DOC Bolgheri territory.
The vineyard extends for about 9 hectares at the foot of the hills, surrounded by the Mediterranean scrublands and the “Fossa di Bolgheri” stream. The area was also a place of ancient dwelling; the remains of an old Etruscan blast furnace have been found there on the summit of an Aeolian hill.
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La Fornace
- The Fornace Farm is a small family-owned farm with old rural traditions. Our parents bought the farm where they had been working for their whole life as metayers. We, that means, the son and his wife, continued to farm the land with help from our children.
Today we produce the wine Brunello di Montalcino DOCG in small quantities, the red wine Montalcino D.O.C. and the Riserva di Brunello D.O.C.G in good years. We also distil grappa (Italian aqua-vitae).
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La Sala - Azienda Agricola La Sala
- The La Sala vineyards and land, now the property of Laura Baronti, were once owned by the famous Medici family, as far back as the 11th century.
The immense beauty of the surrounding landscape, its history, combined with the industrious work ethic of the Medieval times, remains intact to this day. La Sala is a female-run company, ready to welcome, with proverbial Tuscan hospitality, all those who want to experience, at close hand, the production of a high quality wine.
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La Schiaccionaia - Azienda Agricola di Riccardo Rolla E Marcella Turziani
- In Poggi del Sasso, Town of Cinigiano, under a shamelessly clear and blue sky we bought a field on a hillside, made barren by time and neglect. Little by little we tranformed it into a vineyard, smoothing its asperities and modelling it as much as needed in order to see descending rows of grape-laden vines.
Our “city vintner” adventure starts here: we have always loved nature and are bewitched by this rough and harmonious land.
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Pierazzuoli - Tenute Cantagallo E Le Farnete
- Tenuta Cantagallo belongs to our family since 1970; the first who decided to work there was the grand-father, but the love for country life and the respect for the old farmers way of life passed on to the nephews; in fact it’s about ten years that Enrico (one of the nephews) gave new strength to the farm activities, directing them toward high quality wine production and quitting loose wine selling. In the last years Enrico’s wife Monia and the other brothers and sisters, Enrica, Serena and Dario, flanked Enrico, increasing the farm activities with foodstuffs production (honey, preserves, sauces etc.
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