92, 92, 92 points for Brunello 2006, Brunello Prime Donne 2006 and Riserva 2005 by Antonio Galloni for "Wine advocate" ...
The Rosso di Montalcino 2008 from Casato Prime Donne is perfect for welcoming the springtime first relaxing moments outdoors...
The Leone Rosso Orcia Doc has obtained extraordinary results from the most authoritative wine magazine in the world, Wine Spectator ...
“Sangiovese’s specificity to be exalted and a return to the use of barrels”, these are the indications given by the French wine maker Valérie Lavigne for the perfect harmony of the greatest Brunello. This type of affirmation is one that gets people talking, mostly because it comes from a French person and the barriques which have populated Italian wineries for the past ten years are French too. It is Valérie Lavigne speaking, the new extraordinary wine maker in Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s Tuscan wineries. She teaches winemaking in the most famous wine making university in the world, Bordeaux, she is consultant together with Denis Dubordieu...
[caption id="attachment_352" align="alignleft" width="200"] Tinaia del Vento al Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino. Un progetto realizzato da Donatella Cinelli COlombini e Oliver Ogar.[/caption] AT CASATO PRIME DONNE IN MONTALCINO At Casato Prime Donne the “Tinaia del Vento” is immersed among the vineyards and brings together nature and technology. The area is open on four sides to let the must oxygenate naturally during vinification, just as it once occurred in the old wineries where high ceilings and large doors allowed for a complete change of air. The new modern stainless steel vats are equipped with heating and cooling systems, they are open-topped, with a...
PRACTICAL/TECHNICAL INFORMATION: [caption id="attachment_343" align="alignleft" width="195" caption="Donatella Cinelli Colombini - Foglia Tonda"][/caption] The Foglia Tonda variety has a very ancient origin. One can find traces of it in the treatises of the mid 19th century. It originated in Tuscany, particularly in the South of the Siena area, precisely where we are now. Its cultivation was abandoned owing to the type of pruning with a renewable vine-shoot (guyot or upside down), which produced quantities of grapes resulting in lower quality wine. . It was salvaged by our estate in an effort to appreciate the grapes of our territory, by changing the type of pruning: we...
Once again Montalcino proves itself to be a wine producing region of excellence. The favourable climate, the hilly land full of stones,the choice of producing fewer grapes, but most of all the presence of top rate technicians and grape pickers makes Montalcino a territory able to bring grapes to perfect ripening before the arrival of the autumn rainfalls. This year the thinning out of grapes just before their changing of colour helped the vines bring to ripening the clusters left on the plants. This operation together with the diminishing of the leafage, which uncovered the grapes, accelerated the last part of the...
