The Antinori Family Wine Producers
Piero Antinori does not own a castle or a villa in the Chianti. However, belonging to a noble family, he has inherited one of the most beautiful palaces of Florence. It is one of those buildings with essential outlines, not allowing for any changes or stylistic additions, a palace where [more]

The Castle Of Gabbiano in Chianti
If the imagination of a child could come up with the idea of an ancient medieval castle, it would probably be something similar to the small fortification that stands in the Chianti hills close to Florence, set between San Casciano and Greve. The drawbridge is missing, and there are no [more]

Mazzei of Fonterutoli Chianti Makers
“On this 16th December 1398, 3 florins 26 soldi, 8 denari to be paid to Piero Tino Riccio for 6 barrels of Chianti wine…we pay the above with a letter from Ser Lapo Mazzei”. At the end of thr 14th century, a certain esteemed and influential Ser Lapo Mazzei, Notary of the Florentine Signoria [more]

Volpaia: a Wine, a Hamlet
You reach the entrance after walking along a side street which is perfectly accessible. It winds through a part of the countryside that still preserves its natural beauty, an area of the Chianti close to Radda where you can imagine the past, when an old peasant with a wrinkled sunburnt face stops [more]

The Small Vineyard of Colle Bereto
Colle Bereto literally means Bereto Hill, and sure enough, the vineyard stands on a hill! A small elevation where a farming factory rises. But it is such a sweet hill that it almost loses its geological definition, interposed between pleasant and quick growing vegetation. A run-up of paths [more]

Colle Bereto in Florence
The Colle Bereto vineyard is in the heart of the Chianti, a few hundred meters from Radda.
And Radda has for many years been represented and promoted by a lovely shop that bears its name and sells its produce. But lately the Pinzauti family has had another idea [more]

The Great Montevertine: a Small Winegrower
He was a man of passion, capable Of changing his life for a new love and of fighting to the end to defend it. This is not exaggeration. Sergio Manetti was like this. He had a successful industry, a comfortable but maybe a slightly boring life. Then he discovered that the Chianti [more]

Albola by Zonin
At the end of the seventies, the time of the recovery of viticulture in the Chianti, a young Venetian entrepreneur came to this part of the world, a difficult, dignified land like the people who live there. The industrialist looked for a farm to buy, not to show the Tuscans how to make wine but to make [more]

Castello Brolio of Ricasoli Firidolfi
Bettino Rlcasoli is the inventor of oenological formula of the present-day Chianti: “Wine draws most of its aroma and some strong sensations from Sangtoveto. It takes a certain mildness from Canaiolo which softens the sharpness of the former without reducing the aroma with which it is endowed. Malvasia [more]

Colombaio di Cencio Tech Wine
Wine is strange, strange because it is capable arousing lasting passions in time. This is a brief history of the passion of a German entrepreneur who, some years ago, built a cellar in the heart of the historical Chianti, near Castello di Brolio, called the Colombaio di Cencio. Unlike many others he did not want to buy an old farm, restore it and dedicate it to wine production [more]

Ricasoli of Cacchiano
It is a noble country residence which openly declares its fortified origins. This is how we see Cacchiano when we get: here as guests of young owner, Giovanni Ricasoli Firidolfi, the president of the Foundation and the League of the Chianti and the last but one generation [more]

San Felice Chianti Hamlet
San Felice is delicately balanced between simplicity and abundance. The entrance is sober, essential, Tuscan, without gates or doors with the friendly but frugal and unassuming welcome, typical of an ancient agricultural borgo, which not renounced to its quiet everyday life. The hospitality offered is generous [more]

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