SAN DONATINO

In 1971 Léo Ferré - the well-known French singer and poet - and his wife Maria Cristina Diaz bought this farm where they would settle with the whole family and where Maria Cristina and her children still live today. Right from the start, the Ferré

In 1971 Léo Ferré - the well-known French singer and poet - and his wife Maria Cristina Diaz bought this farm where they would settle with the whole family and where Maria Cristina and her children still live today. Right from the start, the Ferré family took care of putting the vineyards and the approximately 5,000 olive trees back in shape and making them productive. The first harvests were sold in bulk until the early 1990s when it was decided to bottle and start marketing on their own. Located in one of the most suitable positions of the entire Chianti Classico, overlooking the SW on the Val d'Elsa at an altitude of 420 meters, San Donatino has always been a family-run company in the best sense of the term, where everything is followed in first person with love and experience. The winery, followed to the end by Giulio Gambelli and today by Federico Staderini, has a traditional setting where the sign of the territory and the difference of the vintages have absolute prevalence over any form of standardization of wines. Fermentation takes place spontaneously without the use of selected yeasts, macerations are prolonged and the wines remain “sur lie” for several months. The base wines are refined only in steel while the crus are aged in wood. In the vineyard since 2012, the conversion to certified organic has begun, although the BIO management has been in place for over twenty years. In San Donatino it is always possible to have a free tasting at any time of the year and without the need for a reservation, while in San Donato in Poggio (about 10 km) the farm will allow you to stay pleasantly surrounded by vineyards and olive trees.