Vino Nobile di Montepulciano winery information

Bindella

From the link to the earth our motto: terra, vite, vita

It was in the 80s that the estate’s story started to enfold thanks to the passion of its founder, Rudi Bindella, grandson of the pioneer Jean Bindella who at the beginning of the 1900s with only two horses started transporting flagons of wine and then introduced the famous Tuscan flask of wine to Switzerland. Rudi Bindella, explored and developed the family activity by starting to instruct those around him, importing and distributing excellent Italian products in the Swiss market, opening restaurants in the most important Swiss areas. During his studies in Italy, he discovers Montepulciano where he decides to become a winemaker and set up his own estate. Today, it is a modern winery with an ancient heart, encapsulated in an architecture which exalts its functions and its beauty. It is permeated with light which amplifies its considerable, exposed, internal spaces. A place where wine, art, history, passion and people live in a dynamic equilibrium, dedicated to creating wines that are the best way to tell the tales of this land in the heart of Italy.

Boscarelli

The story began in 1962 with founder Egidio Corradi’s dream of producing a noble wine that exalts the aromas and flavors of his native land while imparting the elegance he loved. His infinite passion for wine and deep knowledge of his home region induced him to buy two semi-abandoned small farms in Cervognano of Montepulciano, a stunning corner of old Etruscan Tuscany. The ancient soils had long been cultivated in the traditional way with different annual crops and small vineyards. Egidio’s dream and vision were embraced and invigorated by his daughter Paola and her husband Ippolito De Ferrari. Driven by their strong determination and dedication, they started Poderi Boscarelli in the ’60s. The original spirit of the estate has now passed to the third generation of the family. Each day Luca and Nicolò De Ferrari, sons of Paola and Ippolito, bring that same passion to wine production as they work to infuse each bottle with the aromas and flavors that Grandpa Egidio loved and searched for. Luca and Nicolò reselect and replant vineyards that continue to express the scents and range of characteristics of the incredible land that nurtures them. Such intense attention to cultivation practices and gradual replanting, started in the late ’80s, resulted in a total of 22 hectares of vineyards with an average density of 6,000 to 7,000 plants per hectare.

Carpineto

Carpineto was founded in 1967 in the little enclave of Dudda, just outside of Greve in Chianti by Giancarlo Sacchet and Antonio Mario Zaccheo with the purpose of making great Sangiovese in the Tuscan Classic appellations like it had never been done before. On their Chianti Classico farm they started with technical innovation. In 1994 at the IWSC in London, Carpineto wins a triple gold for Chianti Classico Riserva, Vino Nobile Riserva and Farnito Cabernet Sauvignon and Giancarlo Sacchet takes the Trophy for Best Winemaker of the World, the first Italian to win this prestigious award. With the European limelight now shining on Carpineto their efforts were also noticed in America by Wine Spectator that included the Farnito Cabernet Sauvignon in their top 100 list of 1998. 1998 is also the year in which, on the Vino Nobile estate, the first 10 hectares of high-density vineyards are planted to 3600 vines per acre. Today the Sacchet and Zaccheo families work together managing 5 estates, 500 hectares of land, all sustainably farmed, and wines are produced in carbon neutral wineries, are vegan friendly and are made by our chief winemaker, Caterina Sacchet and her capable staff. Carpineto is the story of two friends and their families, united by a common love for sangiovese and a strong desire to partake in Tuscany’s wine renaissance.

Le Bèrne

Le Bèrne farm is situated in southern Tuscany, in the province of Siena, where it is perfectly located in the beautiful countryside of Montepulciano, an area that has been well known since 1400 for the production of the “Vino Nobile”. In the ‘60s, Mr. Egisto Natalini, together with his son Giuliano, decided to produce wine, starting a family-run business that appraises the Tuscan viticulture tradition. Giuliano’s son, Andrea, who is a land surveyor and who joined the business in 1995, is supported by Paolo Vagaggini, a well known oenologist with whom the family is planning to improve agricultural experimentation and to refine its wine-making techniques.

Tenuta di Gracciano della Seta

The Gracciano Estate is one of the oldest wineries in the Montepulciano region. In the beginning of the 19th century, Gracciano was owned by the family who built the Villa and created the Italian-style gardens that surround it. The property was inherited by the current owners, Marco, Vannozza and Galdina della Seta Ferrari Corbelli Greco, through their father Giorgio. Today, the winery covers roughly 70 hectares of which 20 are vineyards. The vines grow on the clay and silty soil of the Gracciano hills, one of the oldest and most prestigious crus of Montepulciano. Giorgio della Seta, after working for many years abroad as a manager in a multinational company, decided to return to Tuscany and take up the family Estate. He proceeded to renew the vineyards and build, in 2013, a new winery alongside the traditional unit which is still used for ageing wine in wood.

Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano

Cooperativa Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano, established in 1937, now has around 400 members, who have chosen to work together with passion and respect for the territory and with a common goal: to guarantee increasingly high-quality products at an affordable price. The Cooperative places its extensive experience in the sector at the service of its members, offering new and modern processing techniques, as well as a team of agronomists and oenologists who provide support throughout the entire production cycle and in the promotion of the product. The emblem of Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano is a rampant winged lion, born from the union of the rampant griffin – an ancient mythological symbol which evokes the long history of the Municipality of Montepulciano since its Etruscan origins – and the lion, expression of the Florentine Seignory, which deeply influenced the life of the town in the 15th and 16th centuries from both a political-administrative and architectural-urbanistic point of view. Established in 1937 by fourteen pioneering winemakers, Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano began its production history in 1940 when it bottled its first vintage. Having overcome the difficulties of the Second World War and the reorganization of land ownership in the 1950s, the Cellar spent the next two decades being a real driving force for the entire territory. And this is a role that it still holds today. What has made this cooperative so important are the people who, despite their large numbers, faithfully reflect the human value of this historic brand.