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MICHAEL GODEL FROM CANADA SENDS US 11 EXCELLENT SCORES

BRUNELLO, ROSSO DI MONTALCINO AND ORCIA DOC IN THE LEONE ROSSO AND CENERENTOLA VERSION ON WINE ALIGN THE PORTAL BY CANADIAN SUPER TASTERS

Michael Godel with Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s staff

Michael Godel is among the foreign wine critics who know Montalcino best. He often participates in Benvenuto Brunello and the Tuscan wine previews and has visited hundreds of wineries in this area. He loves Sangiovese but also greatly appreciates the Foglia Tonda variety for its acidic richness which makes the wines long-lived and fresh.

Our importer in Ontario, Bernard Stramwasser Les Sommelier sent us 11 sheets and 11 scores from Michael Godel on Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino, Leone Rosso Doc Orcia and 6 vintages of Cenerentola (based on Sangiovese and Foglia Tonda) from 2021 to 2001. They are published on Wine Align, the portal of the major Canadian wine experts.

BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO DOCG 2020 SCORE 93/100

Godel appreciated this wine and the respectful way in which it was vinified and matured, allowing the vintage to express itself without intervening in the cellar. The result is a good richness of extracts and a natural balance.

9 January 2025

95,94, 94,93 STELLAR RATINGS BY WINE ADVOCATE FOR DCC’S BRUNELLOS

EXCELLENT RATINGS AND A MOVING MEMORY OF CARLO GARDINI IN THE INFORMATION SHEET WRITTEN BY MONICA LARNER ABOUT BRUNELLO 2018, 2019 AND 2020 BY DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI

Donatella Cinelli Colombini has known Monica Larner for many years, they have different ideas but they respect each other and above all they are fond of each other. This is why Donatella cried reading what Monica wrote about her husband Carlo in Wine Advocate –Robert Parker. She felt understood and embraced with affection. << I don’t remember having met Donatella without the super supportive Carlo right there at her side. They were a strong couple who were on an equal footing>>.

This is perhaps the most important thing for a producer: feeling understood in his or her deepest life choices.

2 January 2025

BRUNELLO RISERVA 2019 ORGANIC CASATO PRIME DONNE

THE 2019 VINTAGE SEEMS BORN TO CHALLENGE TIME AND TO BECOME BRUNELLO RISERVA. GRAPES SO PERFECT THAT NEEDED ONLY PATIENCE

There are vintages that seem born to produce wines capable of defying time and 2019 is one of them.

These are the harvests in which the grapes arrive in the cellar so perfect that they don’t need anything, just attention and patience.

Brunello 2019 is celebrated by critics and consumers as one of the best vintages of the last 20 years and in the Riserva version it finds its most enthusing expression for the silky harmony that hides a powerful structure.

Contrary to what usually happens in the best harvests, 2019 was abundant. A circumstance that also occurred in the legendary 2010 vintage and reveals how global warming has changed the internal balance of plants. In both of these vintages the vines were still in vegetation at the time of the harvest. This is also a rare but very favourable feature.

27 December 2024

Exclusive Preview: Brunello 2020 and Riserva 2019!

Do you want to receive 3 bottles of Brunello 2020 and 3 bottles of Riserva 2019 preview directly at home for € 324,00 ?

An unrepeatable opportunity for true connoisseurs. We are pleased to present a preview of two new extraordinary vintages. These two wines will be released on the market on January 1st so whoever makes the most of this offer will be among the first in the world to taste it and offer it to friends. An exclusive privilege for members of our Club.

This offer is for those who want to start the new year with the right wines to celebrate any special occasion!

As gifts, you will receive a vacuum pump to remove the air from the bottles and a wine skin to carry your favorite

Dal casato Prime Donne le nuove annate del Brunello e della Riserva in un'offerta speciale

Nuove annate Brunello di Montalcino

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The 2019 harvest is to be considered one of the best Montalcino harvests with perfect grapes for the production of a great aging Brunello. The 2020 vintage, however, is reminiscent of the splendid 2015. They are two vintages that are part of the “Vineyard first” project where we make every effort to pick the grapes as soon as they are ready and we develop a system to choose the harvest day based on the tasting of the grapes and on the day in which the quantity of total polyphenols begins to decrease.

OFFER FOR MEMBERS OF DONATELLA’S CLUB

3 bottles of Brunello 2020 in preview
3 bottles of Brunello Riserva 2019 in preview
1 wine saving pump
1 Wine Skin to transport your wine in style

19 December 2024

DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI AND DOCTOR WINE DANIELE CERNILLI

92/100 TO BRUNELLO PRIME DONNE IN THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE WINES OF ITALY BY DANIELE CERNILLI DOCTOR WINE,WITH ALSO A STAR FOR DONATELLA’S WINERIES

DanieleCernilli DonatellaCinelliColombini ONAV Congress 2013

By Donatella Cinelli Colombini, #winedestination

I have known Doctor Wine-Daniele Cernilli for almost forty years, when he was a young philosophy professor with a passion for tasting wine and the mission of raising the quality of Italian wineries by forcing them to compare themselves with each other and with the rest of the world.

We respect each other and are fond of each other. I cannot forget his words of comfort after the death of my husband Carlo.However, our sensitivities for wine diverge: Cernilli prefers leading wine makers like Carlo Ferrini, I believe in nature as the absolute protagonist. A distinction that leads to different outcomes especially in style. In fact, those who, like me, pick the grapes before over- ripeness softens the skin, produce more elegant but less powerful wines than those who wait. But I am convinced that this choice maintains a greater imprint of the terroir and the vintage in the wine. I intend to continue along this path: less power and more territoriality because the wine must tell and surprise and not always be the same.

I am grateful to Daniele Cernilli for having included my winery in the Essential Guide of Italian Wines 2025, also assigning it a star. It’s a joy and an honour.

25 November 2024

WHICH WHITE VARIETY SHOULD BE PLANTED AT FATTORIA DEL COLLE?

TASTING OF 16 NATIVE TUSCAN WHITE WINES AND A LABORATORY OF IDEAS FOR CHOOSING THE VARIETIES TO PLANT. ROBERTO BELLINI NEXT TO DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI’S STAFF

Donatella Cinelli Colombini is in serious difficulty choosing the white grape variety to plant and proceeds by trial and error. Like many Tuscan producers, she wants to have vineyards able to produce high-profile white wines capable of establishing themselves on the market. Everyone is aware that, in our region, there are areas suited to the production of great white wines which must be identified and characterized with the use of the most suitable grape variety.

Vini bianchi diversi per scegliere il vitigno da piantare alla Fattoria del Colle

16 diversi vini bianchi in degustazione provenienti da diversi vitigni toscani

TUSCAN PRODUCERS IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT WHITE

But everyone goes on their own.

And in this way, it will take decades to understand the right path.

There is no connection between the ongoing experiments that allows us to identify excellence, above all there is no study on the different types of Tuscan Trebbiano or other native white grape varieties that identifies those with greater potential.

One wonders why the two Universities of Agriculture and Oenology in Tuscany have not begun. This would speed up the identification of the best clones and the best areas, perhaps with a view to the creation of a new denomination.

While Tuscany is still stuck on white wines, the other major wine regions have already moved forward. Piedmont has relaunched itself with Alta Langa and Derthona, Lombardy has Franciacorta and Lugana, not to mention Veneto with the Prosecco phenomenon. Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino have always had a prevalence of high-end white wines.

15 November 2024

BRUNELLO 2020 JAMES SUCKLING 93/100

AS ALWAYS, THE FIRST RATING ON THE NEW BRUNELLO COMES FROM JAMES SUCKLING, THE AMERICAN CRITIC WHO WAS THE FIRST GREAT FLAG-BEARER FOR BRUNELLO IN THE USA...

25 October 2024

OFFER: WINES FOR THE FESITIVITIES AND CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Spumante Brut Rosé 2020 preview and Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2018 late vintage release, to give prestige to Christmas gifts and meals at €299.00

For you 2 exclusive wines, produced in very small series and intended for a small number of connoisseurs.

For this offer an excellent Tuscan style Spumante designed to accompany the entire meal. It is a Metodo Classico rosé Brut obtained from organically grown Sangiovese grapes

The offer also includes bottles of the late release Brunello di Montalcino 2018, each numbered and wrapped separately.

A unique opportunity for true wine lovers who want to receive two 100% Sangiovese wines produced in Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s wineries, ideal for Christmas and New Year celebrations but also for making very exclusive gifts.

OFFER FOR MEMBERS OF DONATELLA’S CLUB

2 bottles of Spumante Metodo Classico Rosé millesimato BIO 2020

4 bottles of Brunello 2018 late vintage release BIO

2 cotton sachets customized with the Donatella Cinelli Colombini logo

DURATION OF THE OFFER

The offer ends on November 8, 2024

27 September 2024

OFFER: RISERVA SUPER VERTICAL FOR THANKSGIVING

Receive 2 bottles of Brunello Riserva of each of the 2018, 2016 and 2015 vintages at your home for €399.00

A unique opportunity for true wine lovers who want to receive 3 premium wines to open for important occasions such as festivities to serve with delicious dishes, or to organize a nice tasting with 3 vintages to be compared.

The Brunello di Montalcino Riserva by Donatella Cinelli Colombini is a great, extremely balanced and fine wine, which comes from a small vineyard of the Casato Prime Donne di Montalcino, the first winery in Italy with an all-female staff.

WHAT MAKES THE RISERVA SPECIAL

All Brunellos are able to last many years in the bottle, but Brunello Riserva is one of the greatest red wines in the world created for very long cellaring.

Donatella Cinelli Colombini produces Brunello Riserva in the Casato Prime Donne winery in Montalcino, Tuscany,

Super Verticale di Brunello Riserva

only in the best years and choosing by hand, one by one, the best bunches of Sangiovese grapes. A slow and careful way of working that allows only perfect grapes of the same level of ripeness to be sent to the cellar.

Before the harvest, the vineyards are divided into small parcels based on the tasting of the grapes. The area with the greatest qualitative potential is destined for the production of Brunello Riserva. The selection is made by tasting the grapes, just as was done a century ago, the laboratory analysis confirms the decision. Generally, the best grapes come from the Ardita vineyard, planted and cultivated at the highest point of the vineyards around the property.

13 September 2024

MONTALCINO SEPTEMBER 14TH CASATO PRIME DONNE AWARD 2024

Maria Canabal's quote to Montalcino and many young people destined to become positive examples for their peers: artists, pastry chefs, goldsmiths and students...

26 July 2024

by Donatella Cinelli Colombini #winedestination

SAN QUIRICO D’ORCIA THE INLAYS THAT CHARMED FEDERICO ZERI

FEDERICO ZERI, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING EXPERTS, STUDIED HISTORY OF ART IN THE COLLEGIATA OF SAN QUIRICO D’ORCIA IN FRONT OF A MASTERPIECE THAT IS STILL THERE

Antonio Barili San Quirico d'Orcia tarsie del coro della Collegiata

Antonio Barili San Quirico d’Orcia choir inlays in the Collegiata

As you know, I produce wine but I did not study oenology but rather the history of medieval art. I consider it a privilege to have dedicated years to the study of paintings, sculptures and minor arts but I also feel the privilege of living in Tuscany, a region that resembles an immense widespread museum, full of great works of art.

FEDERICO ZERI IN SAN QUIRICO D’ORCIA

Here I’ll tell you about one of them: the inlays by Antonio Barili in San Quirico d’Orcia, 30 km from Fattoria del Colle. During the last Orcia Wine Festival I met Marco Torchi who told me about Federico Zeri, one of the greatest Italian art historians and critics, who decided his destiny while he was in San Quirico d’Orcia.

4 July 2024

in Characters and places

NEW ENTRIES AT FATTORIA DEL COLLE

THE NEW FACES AT DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI'S ESTATE: IRENE LESTI, KETTY LA ROCCA, BIANCA MARIA VIERUCCI, ANNA TRUFFELLI AND THE VERY YOUNG EMMA AND LAVINIA...

20 June 2024

RED WINE SERVED COOL: WHERE WHEN & WHY

CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTHIER MEALS AND THE DESIRE FOR NOOVELTIES ARE INCREASING THE CONSUMPTION OF RED WINE SERVED COOL AND SEEING IT IN THE FRIDGE IS NO LONGER SURPRISING

By Donatella Cinelli Colombini #winedestination

Red Wine served cool with strawberries

Winters so warm that you can have lunch outside, very hot and then very cold spring days… a truly crazy climate that also brings changes to menus and wines. The consumption of white wine increases and the serving temperature of red wine decreases.

If once it was said to bring bottles of red to the table at “room temperature”, now the specification of 16-18°C is written everywhere. Refrigerated cabinets for red wines are in every good restaurant and there are many more red wines to drink cool.

WHICH RED WINES ARE THE MOST SUITABLE TO BE CONSUMED COOL?

It is an effect of the new climate and the new attention to well-being deriving from food: more vegetables, less meat, more lightness, less cooking. Uncorking a cool red wine becomes trendy but which wines are suitable for reaching the table at 8-12° centigrade?

6 June 2024