Italian Wineries

Fattoria di Felsina

Domenico Poggiali bought Felsina farm in 1966 and with a courageous act, during that difficult time of Italian viticulture, he chose to invest on the quality of wine and on the expertise of some young people.
Lovers of viticulture and skilled entrepreneurs, Domenico and his son Giuseppe modernized the management of the country without abandoning the spirit of tradition. Within a few years, the hectares of vine became more than forty and they also changed the essence and the organization of the company. In the second half of the seventies, his son–in–law Giuseppe Mazzocolin entered the company with the task to develop commercially the company. His humanistic culture and his awareness of the responsibility of man in his work contributed to the growth of the culture of wine in Italy and abroad, obtaining his first international recognition. His friendship with Veronelli and his collaboration with the winemaker Franco Bernabei have charted a course that reveals itself with extreme consistency in wines from the 1983 vintage, the first of Fontalloro and Rancia, up to the present days. Under the guidance of Domenico and Giuseppe Poggiali, a path begins, that since 1990 sees even Giovanni Poggiali as protagonist, the first of the three children of Giuseppe.

Podere Poggio Scalette

POGGIO SCALETTE ESTATE becomes a wine company in 1991, when Vittorio Fiore and his wife Adriana Assjè di Marcorà buy, on the Ruffoli Hill, in the municipality of Greve in Chianti (Florence), in the heart of the production area of Chianti Classico, some plots of land and a rural farmhouse coming from an estate division and from the sale of several real estate assets, including farmhouses, lands with vineyards, olive groves, pastures and forests, almost abandoned for years after the death of the former owner.

Castellare di Castellina

Castellare di Castellina is a winery that produces Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Il Poggiale wine. The winery follows traditional Tuscan winemaking methods with great care and attention to detail. The vineyards are located in a terroir that is ideal for producing high-quality grapes. The winery is known for its commitment to sustainability and the environment, using organic and biodynamic farming techniques. Their wines are elegant, complex, and expressive, reflecting the unique character of the region.

Castello di San Donato in Perano

Castello Vicchiomaggio

Castello Vicchiomaggio is a stunning winery known for producing premium wines. The winery focuses on traditional wine-making techniques to bring out the full potential of each grape variety. Visitors can enjoy wine tastings, cellar tours, and take in the breathtaking views of the vineyards from the castle's terrace. The estate is also home to an elegant restaurant offering delicious Tuscan cuisine paired with their exceptional wines.

Carpineta Fontalpino

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.

Col di Bacche

In 1997 Alberto Carnasciali and his wife Franca Buzzegoli bought a plot of land of about 18 hectares in the municipality of Magliano in Tuscany (Grosseto), in the Montiano village, with the intent to create a wine company in an area particularly suited for red wines, but not enhanced yet.

The company is placed at the edge of the Natural Park of Maremma on a hill facing south, south–west, with mainly sandy soils of limestone. Immediately after the purchase, the works on the land started, for the realization of vineyards, that are placed at an altitude that ranges from 150 m up to 260 m above sea level and cover an area of ​​about 13 hectares, with a plant density of about 5,300 plants per hectare.

Corporate choices were based from the beginning to the creation of Morellino di Scansano, considered that the company is located in one of the most suited areas for the production of Morellino, devoting to it over 8 hectares of vineyard, while in the remaining part Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon are grown for the creation of PGI Maremma Toscana Cupinero. The goal of the company is to provide quality products. Therefore, all the choices of the business management go towards that direction: low production, manual management of the green, thinning of bunches.

Tenimenti Luigi D'Alessandro

Tenimenti Luigi d'Alessandro is a winery that produces high-quality and award-winning wines made with a focus on sustainability and environmental consciousness. The winery blends traditional winemaking techniques with modern technology to create wines that express the unique terroir of the region. Their vineyards are carefully tended by hand and their grapes are harvested at optimal ripeness to ensure the best quality in their final products. The winery also offers tastings and tours of the vineyards and production facilities for visitors to experience their wines firsthand.

Tenuta di Valgiano

Tenuta di Valgiano is a family-owned winery that produces high-quality organic wines using traditional methods. Their vineyards are located on hillsides at varying altitudes, creating unique microclimates that allow for a diverse range of grape varieties. The winery emphasizes sustainability and environmental stewardship, using only natural practices in their farming and winemaking processes. Their wines are known for their elegance, balance, and complexity, and have received numerous awards and accolades.

Castello di Volpaia

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.

Fattoria Le Fonti

In the heart of Chianti Classico, halfway between Florence and Siena, the small village of Panzano is located. Just below the parish church, 450 meters above sea level, there is Fattoria Le Fonti. The estate covers more than 15 hectares, of which 8 and a half are dedicated to vineyards, and the others to the cultivation of olives.

Le Fonti is a small company that produces about 40,000 bottles per year. The farm has been conducted by the Schmitt–Vitali family since 1994. The entire chain of wine production, from pruning to marketing, is followed by the family, with the help of a few experts and collaborators. The winemaking activity is followed by the oenologist Dr. Stephen Chioccioli.

Since 1994, all the vineyards were replanted with vines selected for our land and our position. The wine cellars have been completely renovated and new technologies have been introduced to produce wines of superior quality. The roots of a great wine are always to be found in the vineyard. We follow a system of sustainable agriculture to preserve a good balance in our land. The relatively small size of the company allows us to follow the company’s production with particular care: only the best grapes arrive in the winery and only the best selections are bottled and commercialized.

Monteraponi

Monteraponi is a family-owned winery that produces high-quality wines using traditional methods. The winery is known for its commitment to sustainability and respect for the environment. Monteraponi's vineyards are located in a unique terroir, which results in wines with a distinctive character. The winery is recognized for its dedication to preserving the native grape varieties of the region and for its use of minimal intervention in the winemaking process. Monteraponi's wines are sought after by wine enthusiasts around the world for their exceptional quality and authenticity.