Fattoria Castellina is
a farm situated on the hills between Florence and
Vinci, in Tuscany with 110 hectares of land, including
10 ha of vineyard, 30 ha of olive grove. The remainder
is woods that surround the property.
In our red wines we endeavor to express our terroir
of Chianti Montalbano to its full potential by
practising organic farming and paying a lot of attention
to the respect of our beautiful landscape, vegetation
and animal life. The olive grove has been run organically
for over 8 years and since the last two we have been
farming biodynamically in the vineyard as well. Since
1996 we have been gradually renovating the vines and
in 2000 we have restored an old terraced vineyard
that was left uncultivated for 20 years. Here we have
replanted Sangiovese with a head training system and
“settonce” planting scheme, widespread
in ancient Greece. High plant density (8,300 plants/ha)
means that work is done entirely by hand and animal-towed
tools.