The farm

In the heart of Tuscany, in the wonderful Chianti hills, our small farm maintains and continues the Tuscan tradition of vines and olives cultivations. All the cultivations are performed in the traditional way, with a deep knowledge and a deep respect of the peculiar times of nature, plants and seasons.

The use of chemical products is reduced as much as possible, favouring when possible the ancient techniques and remedies. These natural techniques are the mirror of the ancient harmony between Human and natural environment that from time immemorial is the main richness of the Tuscan land and its deepest and more authenthic heart.

Our vineyards

Our vineyards produce Chianti-certified grapes and grapes for white wines and for Vinsanto (sweet white Tuscany wine, dessert wine).
The distribution of cultivations is traditional of the Tuscany family farms, where, together with vineyards and olive trees, the farm hosts also the cultivations needed for the family food: vegetables (pumpkins, courgettes, cabbages like the Tuscan "black cabbage" that is one of the main ingredients of "Ribollita", artichokes, tomatoes) and fruits trees (plum, peach and pear trees).

Types of vines

Red grapes: Sangiovese, Canaiolo, Colorino and other different types of ancient vines.
White grapes: Trebbiano.

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Cultivation technique

Traditional with simple arc.
In the absolute respect of the tradition and of ancient techniques, the structure that supports the vines is made by natural materials: reeds growing along the ditches for holding up the vines and small branches of red willow to fix them to the structure.
Green pruning in summer to favour grape ripeness and optimal sugar level.

The Old Vineyard ("La Vigna Vecchia")

Installation year: 1930.
Ancient vineyard with vines rows close each other, characteristic of the times of cultivation whitout tractors. Here we have still some ancient types of Tuscany vines that elsewhere are nearly disappeared.

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The Little Vineyard ("Il Vignino")

Installation year: 1973.
Vineyard with types of vines in the proportion for Chianti wine stated by the Chianti Consortium.

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The New Vineyard ("La Vigna Nuova")

Installation year: 2002.
Vineyard with types of vines in the proportion for Chianti wine stated by the Chianti Consortium.

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Our olive grove

Besides the olive trees we recently installed, we maintained many ancient plants of native sorts, that often have no name and survived in one-two individuals only. These ancient sorts are native of our area and once they populated our hills. At present they disappeared almost everywhere because of their low productivity and have been replaced by more standard high productivity sorts.
In our driving idea to absolutely privilege the quality of the extra-virgin olive oil even if this is detrimental to the quantity, we maintained the survived olive trees of the ancient native sorts. These sorts give to our extra-virgin olive-oil a truly unique taste and an extraordinarily low acidity.

Olive trees sorts

Leccino, Correggiolo, Mignolo, Moraiolo, Rossellino

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