100% Sangiovese. From certified-biodynamic vines in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The fruit comes from two sites--one lower-lying, warmer, with heavier clay soils with alluvial stones, the other much higher, cooler, north-facing and limestone-forward...

90% Sangiovese/10% Colorino-Canaiuolo. From certified-biodynamic vines in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The fruit comes from two sites--one lower-lying, warmer, with heavier clay soils with alluvial stones, the other much higher, cooler, north-facing...

La Pieve is a single-vineyard in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, planted in 1997.  It was first released as a special botting in 2017, to celebrate the 20th year of this vineyard.  It is aged like the Brunello 'normale' and released at the same time.  

This single-vineyard cru is La Gerla's flagship wine. Made in select years, this comes entirely from a one-hectare parcel of old vines (25-30 years old) from the original Biondi-Santi site, located between 270 and 320 meters above sea level. This hillside vineyard occupies a privileged position at...

100% Sangiovese. Jarkko and Josephin were the first in Chianti Classico to use 250L ceramic orbs called Clayver for aging their wines.  They are fired a very high temperatures and are 20% less porous than terracotta. The wine is called Mimas--one of the many satellites of Saturn--as the Clayver...

94% Sangiovese, 3% Malvasia Nera, 3% Canaiolo. Co-harvested/co-fermented in unlined concrete with macerations lasting a month.  Aged in unlined concrete vats.  This is Candialle's Chianti Classico 'annata,'  though its release date could easily classify it as a Riserva.  

100% Prugnolo Gentile aka Sangiovese. IGT Rosso is a newer addition to Sanguineto's small line-up and an outlier in a few ways: it is their only IGT wine; their only one from a young plantation (2017) of Prugnolo Gentile; and the only monovarietal wine from Sanguineto. As for vignaiola Dora Forsoni...

100% Sangiovese. Until a few years ago, this half-hectare of bush-trained vines went into Fonterenza's Rosso di Montalcino; planted in 2005, this pruning style led to smaller berries, lower yields and more concentrated and complex wine, which warranted its own separate bottling eventually. The...

100% Sangiovese. Typically, Fonterenza's rosato comes from estate fruit but in 2023, they lost 2/3 of their crop and sourced for this wine. The berries are destemmed and gently pressed with the juice remaining in contact with the skins for about 8 hours. The must ferments spontaneously and slowly,...

100% Sangiovese. Fonterenza's classic Rosso di Montalcino comes from across their hilly, contiguous four hectares of vines in San Polo, just southeast of Montalcino. It has never been a "second wine" for them. Their entire small holding qualifies for Brunello DOCG technically, but the legal...

Teatro is the smallest cru of the estate and also its highest, 0.7ha at 500-520m, an amphitheatre facing South. This is a cooler microclimate with the oldest vines, planted in 1994. Fermentation in stainless steel w/ macerations lasting 20-40 days. Aged in 2100L casks for three years and an...

Elsa is 100% Sangiovese, coming from the only parcel not contiguous to the estate, 0.81 hectares, planted in 2004, just below Castelnuovo dell'Abate, in the southern part of the Montalcino appellation. Fermentation in stainless w/ 10-20 days of maceration. Aged in 800L clay anfora for 20 months,...