Chianti Superiore

It goes well with Tuscan, Asian or northern European, beef, veal and poultry dishes.

Cinelli Colombini Donatella. Fattoria del Colle in the vineyards are at the top of the hill, 404 meters above sea level. Quaternary deep soils have mostly marine sand and sandstone fragments. The oldest vineyards were planted in 1996; the youngest are 10 years old and all are cultivated organically. Vine naked eye looks healthy in a natural equilibrium with the surrounding beautiful, untouched landscape and preserved through the centuries: no factories, no intensive farming.

One year of aging in concrete vats.

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.