Fortuna was one of the 12 small farms of the Cafaggiolo Castle, historic home in Mugello of the De’ Medici family, who was native of this place and that, in over 400 years of government, made of Florence one of the most important cities in Europe.
Precisely thanks to the Medici’s Archives, still preserved in Florence, the production of wine by Podere Fortuna since 1465 is documented, when the property was of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
A subsequent document records, in 1627, the existence of 8,090 “low vines”, the specialized vineyard of the period, and of 183 “married to poplars” vines.
The importance of the vines for Podere Fortuna is proven by its coat of arms, taken from a manuscript of 1629, in which a bunch of red grapes surmounts the emblem of the De’ Medici family.
