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. Werner Wilhelm went further, he had a cellar built with all the characteristics and materials typical of the Chianti, a modern interpretation of an ancient rural building. He planned a cellar for the future, endowed with a complex computerized system of heating, cooling and running the entire wine making process. Besides this, also the most advanced plants for pressing and filtering have been foreseen as barrique vats which are continually renewed. The aim of all this is to produce an outstanding wine. The methods soon bore fruit, if we consider that the activity was begun only in 1998 and international appreciation was not slow to come. We are accompanied by Jacopo Morganti, a pure Chiantigiano and director of this ‘thinking’ cellar. We tasted together with him the only two brands now in production, I Massi del Colombaio, a Chianti Classico Riserva, and Futuro, a Supertuscan which is achieving great results only now as it is a complex wine with an outstanding structure which emanates a very delicate bouquet where we can clearly distinguish the fragrance of cherry and vanilla. We felt very enthusiastic about this wine when tasting it. It seemed to issue fruity tones, absolutely harmonious with one another and even an after taste, reminiscent of chocolate. A wine for aging which will no doubt improve with time.

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See also:

The Castle Of Gabbiano in Chianti, The Antinori Family Wine Producers, Antinori: Wine Makers for 800 Years, Mazzei of Fonterutoli Chianti Makers, Volpaia: a Wine, a Hamlet, Colle Bereto in Florence, The Small Vineyard of Colle Bereto, The Great Montevertine: a Small Winegrower, Albola by Zonin, Castello Brolio of Ricasoli Firidolfi, Ricasoli of Cacchiano, San Felice Chianti Hamlet

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