Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Meat dishes, such as steak, oxtail, beef wellington, or game paired with mushroom sauces.

In total there are 16 hectares of vineyard. Every year the best 10 are chosen to make the Brunello. These are on the Northern side of the Montalcino region, the cooler area that has most benefitted from climate change. 225 m above sea level, on a small hill facing midday, with a soil rich in clay and silt. The vineyard is divided into 4 small parcels planted between 2001 and 2006 with a density of 5,500 vines per hectare and trained with the spurred cordon system and cultivated following the organic regime so without the use of product for chemical synthesis . The average production is around 5.5 tons per hectare. The winter pruning is done following the Simonit- Sirch system.

At Casato Prime Donne there are 18 hectares of vineyard and the winery for the production and ageing of the Brunello di Montalcino wine. The winemakers are all women: a revolutionary work situation for Italy. In the vineyards around Casato, there is a trail walk where quotations from the winners of the Casato Prime Donne Award and works of art accompany those walking through the vineyards. The surrounding landscape of the Val’d'Orcia has been declared by Unesco an important part of the heritage of humankind. In 1592 Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s ancestors already owned Casato. They would come here to go hunting and it was here that they brought their wives on their honeymoon. In recent times Casato belonged to Donatella's grandmother, who passed it on to Donatella’s mother; Donatella in turn will pass it on to her daughter Violante. Since 1998 this large stone building has a new name Casato Prime Donne and it is the first winery in Italy where the winemakers are all female.