MARCHESI MAZZEI

Marchesi Mazzei is a family that can boast an incomparable legacy immersed in the Tuscan winemaking tradition. Theirs is in fact a history that begins many centuries ago, in the medieval village of Castello di Fonterutoli, and that has been going on

Marchesi Mazzei is a family that can boast an incomparable legacy immersed in the Tuscan winemaking tradition. Theirs is in fact a history that begins many centuries ago, in the medieval village of Castello di Fonterutoli, and that has been going on for 24 generations. The village of Fonterutoli, which overlooks the Val d'Elsa, and which belonged to the Mazzei family since 1435, still retains its original appearance as a quiet country village: a few houses, the church of San Miniato and the villa built at the end of 1500 in place of the fortified castle.
The estate is located a few kilometres south of Castellina, in the heart of Chianti Classico, and includes over six hundred hectares of land, more than one hundred of which are planted with vineyards and are located in the most beautiful areas of the appellation: Fonterutoli, Siepi, Badiola, Belvedere and Caggio. Vineyards that have made the history of Chianti Classico, mainly cultivated with Sangiovese, a variety that has found its land of choice here, capable of expressing great aromas and elegance in the higher areas, structure and power in the lower ones. It is therefore no coincidence that Castello di Fonterutoli is considered one of the most significant wineries in the entire Chianti Classico area, which has always been projected towards the search for new qualitative frontiers, both in the vineyard and in the cellar. A work and a path that have led the wines of the Castle to be world-renowned, and to be a point of reference for the entire Chianti Classico area.
But it doesn't end there: the propensity to always look for new challenges and the continuous search for excellence have pushed the Mazzei to expand their horizons towards new frontiers in viticulture and winemaking, in addition to Chianti Classico, also in the Tuscan Maremma, with Tenuta Belguardo, and in Sicily with Tenuta Zisola. Realities that today produce wines with a clear territorial imprint, true ambassadors of the respective denominations.

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