This beautiful wine region was once simply known as Chianti (which you can glimpse in the map above) and is framed by Florence to the North and Siena to the South in a timeless landscape of hilltop towns, ancient farmhouses, castles, abundant woodland, cypress trees, olive groves and vineyards. Centuries of winemaking ancestry have left records of fine wine deriving…
Tony Wood is a wine writer based in Umbria and has one of the best informed palates for Tuscan wines. His blog is really worth a follow: www.tonywooditalianwine.com. He put together a list of the top 13 (we have no idea why 13) wines that he drank in 2022 from all denominations, and he ranked our San Piero 2016 at…
We were awarded a ‘Top Wine’ rating Slow Wine for our Chianti Classico 2019. We cannot tell how proud we are to be recognised by this guide. (By the way, Greve in Chianti is a ‘slow city’. What better place to enjoy our ‘slow wine’?) Appreciation for our Chianti Classico Riserva 2019 Tasting Live with Jamie Goode “There’s the most…
Florence is an extraordinary city with any number of surprises – not least the ‘buchette del vino’ (or often ‘porte del paradiso’) neither of which needs translation. These have undergone something of a revival of late, thanks in part to Stanley Tucci and his excellent series “Searching for Italy”. (Who doesn’t love Stanley Tucci?) These miniature doors, located within the…
We are thrilled to be able to announce the release of our Chianti Classico Riserva 2019. Coming exclusively from the Montecalvi Alto vineyard which was planted to Sangiovese in 1990, we made just two barrels of this wine from the outstanding 2019 vintage. This particular vineyard tends to give us neater, more compact bunches of Sangiovese and we undertook small…
We were delighted to welcome Emily O’Hare for a visit over the winter. Emily left her job as Head Sommelier and Wine Buyer at London’s The River Cafe (one of our favourite restaurants) in 2014 to participate in the grape harvest in Italy, and has never quite made it back. Emily is a highly respected wine critic based in Siena…
Before the world changed in 2019, we decided to take out one hectare of vineyard that had ‘wet feet’ and was in need of more than a little TLC. We replanted in early spring 2020 with three different clones of Sangiovese: the Brunello clone VCR5, #7 from the Chianti Classico 2000 Project, and I-VCR- 209. These may just be a…
We wanted to let you know that we have been lucky enough to receive a number of very good reviews for our wines recently. Our VV 2015 was awarded 94 points by the prestigious Veronelli wine guide and we also caught the attention of Antonio Galloni (Vinous) and Dr Jamie Goode (Wine Anorak). Montecalvi Chianti Classico 2018 received 93 points…
