Chianti Fiasco 1.5 Litre DOCG 2023 San Michele Organic Wine

Fattoria San Michele a Torri S.R.L.

San Michele: tradition at its best. Paolo Nocentinis spent a small fortune on his love for his homeland. A successful Florentine haulage entrepreneur, he looked out from an elegant villa over the beautiful Arno valley west of Florence. Speculators with plenty of money from southern Italy’s inexhaustible but rather murky sources had bought up land on a large scale and begun developing it, dividing it into plots and selling it on at a profit.

Eventually, Paolo could no longer bear to watch this sell-off. He made a good offer and bought the old Fattoria San Michele with its remaining land. Within a few years, a model Tuscan farm emerged: the old villa was renovated in keeping with its style, and traditional crops returned to the fields. A small bakery makes traditional durum-wheat bread. In the attic, grapes for VinSanto are once again dried on wooden racks, with the wine then maturing in old-fashioned-looking caratelli. Grape reception and fermentation tanks use the latest oenological technology, while in the ageing cellar the old tiled concrete tanks were restored at enormous expense and brought up to modern hygiene standards. New vineyards are planted with material propagated from old vines specifically for San Michele. Sensitive estate manager and oenologist Leonardo Francalanci negotiates the fine line between welcome modernity and tradition worth preserving with almost instinctive assurance. Wines like these certainly need not fear competition from overseas. They can only come from this magnificent wine landscape and can never be imitated!