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During the 18th century, Giuseppe Bordoni made this Villa his permanent home and invested heavily in the vineyards, producing a renowned Chianti Classico since 1782, taking the name of ‘Mezzuola’ - the hamlet which surrounded his residence. At that time, the entire hamlet and several dozen hectares of excellent farmland belonged to the ...
In 1900, Piero Antinori bought several vineyards in the Chianti Classico region, including 47 hectares at Tignanello. His son Niccolò scandalised Tuscany in 1924 by making a Chianti containing Bordeaux wine varieties. He continued to experiment over the following years with new blends, types of barrel, temperature control and bottle ageing
The Sangiovese grape performs better when it can receive more direct sunlight, which is a benefit of the many hillside vineyards in Tuscany. The majority of the region's vineyards are found at altitudes of 500–1600 feet (150–500 meters).
Tuscan Chianti in a traditional fiasco. Italian wine (Italian: vino italiano) is produced in every region of Italy.Italy is the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine in the world, [1] [2] with an area of 702,000 hectares (1.73 million acres) under vineyard cultivation, [3] as well as the world's largest wine producer and the largest exporter as of 2024.
The Val d'Orcia or Valdorcia (Italian: [ˌvalˈdortʃa]) is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata.Its gentle, cultivated hills are occasionally broken by gullies and by towns and villages such as Pienza (rebuilt as an "ideal town" in the 15th century under the patronage of Pope Pius II), [1] Radicofani (home to the notorious brigand ...
I Balzini Estate. I Balzini D'Isanto is a wine estate in Italy, producing a Super Tuscan (wine), [1] classified IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica), [2] an official Italian classification designating the region of origin, rather than grape varieties or wine styles, allowing the use of foreign grape varieties to be added.
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First came oidium and then the phylloxera epidemic would take its toll on the vineyards of Chianti just as they had ravaged vineyards across the rest of Europe. The chaos and poverty following the Risorgimento heralded the beginning of the Italian diaspora that would take Italian vineyard workers and winemakers abroad as immigrants to new lands ...