IGT Toscana Tag

by Donatella

WHAT ARE “LOW-NAT” WINES AND WHY I LIKE THEM

I NOT ONLY ENJOY WINES WITH LOW NATURAL ALCOHOL CONTENT, BUT I ALREADY MAKE ONE: THE ROSA DI TETTO IGT ROSE’. LOW -NAT WINES ARE LESS PROCESSED AND TASTE BETTER

Rosa di Tetto, IGT Toscana rosato Low Nat

Low Nat Rosa di Tetto, IGT Toscana di Sangiovese Fattoria del Colle Donatella Cinelli Colombini

by Donatella Cinelli Colombini, winedestination, Casato Prime Donne Montalcino, Fattoria del Colle Trequanda

A wonderful article by Gianluca Atzeni in “Trebicchieri” explains the reason for the great enthusiasm surrounding “LOW-NAT” wines—a category with an alcohol content similar to beer, yet which is unequivocally wine. This enthusiasm has led to amendments to the production regulations for appellations such as Orvieto, Pinot Grigio delle Venezie, Prosecco, and Garda.

LOW-NAT WINES: A WINNING FORMULA FOR EVERYONE

The fact is that temperatures are rising and consumer needs are shifting. There is a decline in overall consumption—including daily home consumption—alongside an increase in social drinking away from home. Coupled with this is a growing focus on health and waistlines.

4 June 2026

IL DRAGO E LE 8 COLOMBE IGT TOSCANA 2022

WE WILL REMEMBER THE 2022 GRAPES FOR THE VERY SMALL BERRIES, WHICH FORCED DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI'S WINEMAKERS TO CHANGE THEIR USUAL WORKPLAN....

26 June 2025

Super offer with Rosa di Tetto 2024 and Brunello 2020!

Do you want to receive this offer made of 100% Sangiovese wines at €154.90 directly at home?

Dear friends, we have prepared for you an unmissable opportunity for true Sangiovese lovers! Two masterpieces from amazing vintages. The Rosa di Tetto IGT Toscana 2024, in preview, and the Brunello DOCG 2020.

🎁 together with the bottles you will find: two blue shopper bags, two sheets of tissue paper (to give a touch of elegance to a gift you will give to your friends) and the package sealer

What’s special about this offer?

This is a special opportunity to receive 2 different expressions of Sangiovese from the Donatella Cinelli Colombini farms. For the first time, part of the grapes used for the Rosa di Tetto 2024 come from the Casato Prime Donne vineyards in Montalcino. Donatella’s vineyards are grown organically and with great commitment.

🍇 Offer of the Month – For Members of Donatella’s Club

3 bottles 0.75L Rosa di Tetto IGT Toscana 2024

3 bottles 0.75L Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2020

two blue shopper bags, two sheets of tissue paper and two package sealers, all with the logo of the Donatella Cinelli Colombini wineries

🎯 Special price: €154.90 (instead of €184.20)

🚚 €10 discount on shipping

💡 Want to double?

12 bottles for €289.00 (instead of €368.40) with the same advantage on shipping.

12 June 2025

ROSA DI TETTO 2024 IGT TOSCANA ROSATO BIOLOGICO-ORGANIC

ROSA DI TETTO 2024 MARKS A RETURN TO THE OLDEST TUSCAN TRADITION OF ROSE’ WINE, THAT OF THE COLOURFUL WINES THAT FARMERS MADE IN SECRET

Rosé wines intense enough to accompany the entire meal and soft enough to be drunk cold.

Fattoria del Colle has been producing rosé wines for over forty years but in 2024, for the first time, part of the grapes for this wine come from the Montalcino vineyards of Casato Prime Donne. A circumstance that gives greater structure to the Rosa di Tetto.

ROSA DI TETTO IGT TOSCANA

The choice to produce a more structured rosé stems from the international success of this type and the demand for rosés with greater personality and aging capacity. A change that coincided with a return to the origins, inspired by the “acquati” produced by Tuscan farmers since time immemorial. Those of a century ago were fragrant but poor-quality rosés obtained by stealing a part of the must at the beginning of fermentation or by refermenting the marc. They were therefore poor wines.

16 May 2025

SANCHIMENTO IGT TOSCANA WHITE 2024 BIO-ORGANIC

2024 ABUNDANT AND QUALITATIVE HARVEST IN WHICH THE TRAMINER GRAPES FOR SANCHIMENTO WERE VINIFIED IN STEEL, IN TERRACOTTA AMPHORA AND IN CLAYVER CERAMIC

By Donatella Cinelli Colombini #winedestination

SANCHIMENTO 2024 A SUPERTUSCAN FROM ORGANIC AND TOURISTIC VINEYARDS

Sanchimento is obtained from organic grapes from the small vineyard around the chapel of the Fattoria del Colle dedicated to San Clemente or Chimento as the saint himself was called in medieval times. The wine therefore takes its name from the small sixteenth-century church. Both the chapel and the adjacent vineyard are open to tourists, in fact the vineyard of Traminer grapes used for the Sanchimento wine is the starting point for a trail in the vineyards that leads visitors to discover all the grape varieties grown at the Fattoria del Colle through the use of signs and QR codes.

THE PARTICULAR VINIFICATION FOR SANCHIMENTO

The cellar workers led by the oenologist Barbara Magnani have developed a very particular process for the Sanchimento IGT Toscana white. An unprecedented method that manages to enhance the characteristics of the grape variety, increase the complexity of the wine and its distinctive characteristics.

9 July 2021

JULY OFFER FOR THE CLUB

Two cases containing 10 bottles of Super Tuscan white Sanchimento 2020 and 2 bottles of Passito di Traminer 2017 BIO, 2 custom drop stops and a manual on wine

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Extraordinary wines that transform your summer dinners into unique and unforgettable moments. These are two exclusive series: the white Sanchimento IGT Toscana Supertuscan is produced in 1800 bottles and the Passito in just 346 small 375 ml.

Together a small “brief handbook” manual for great wine lovers and 2 personalized drop stops will be sent to your home and will help you pour the wine into the glasses.

PASSITO 2017 A SUPER EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTION

Passito is a passion for Carlo, husband to the producer Donatella Cinelli Colombini, who personally cares for it. The 2017 vintage got 94/100 from Robert Parker Wine Advocate who appreciated the honeyed and very elegant taste of this dessert wine. The grapes for the Passito and white Supertuscan Sanchimento are produced in the small BIO vineyard of Traminer variety at Fattoria del Colle.

SANCHIMENTO 2020 SUPERTUSCAN WHITE FROM A 5 STAR VINTAGE

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Sanchimento Super Tuscan IGT bianco was born in the 2020 five-star harvest. Some of the grapes have been vinified by traditional method and part of them with orange- method which means in contact with grape skins and indigenous yeasts. Before bottling, the wine obtained with the two systems was combined to get a white with a golden colour and a complex and slightly mineral scent. In the mouth the wine is harmonious and surprisingly intense. It will fascinate you for its elegant character, it is fresh and at the same time rich.

OFFER FOR MEMBERS OF DONATELLA’S CLUB

Price of 159 Euro (instead of 181 Euro)

For two cases containing 10 bottles (750 ml) of Sanchimento IGT Bianco Supertuscan 2020 and 2 bottles (375 ml) of Passito di uve Traminer 2017, 2 drop stops and a manual for wine lovers.

For those who want to double the purchase: 298 Euro (instead of 362 Euro)

14 May 2021

CLUB OFFER OF 6 MIXED WINES

6 different wines for two memorable dinners: IGT Supertuscan white and rosé. Doc Orcia Cenerentola, Brunello IOsonoDonatella, highly rated Vin Santo and Passito

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Exclusive wines real rarities made in limited number of bottles. Family wines obtained from the grapes from the vineyards belonging to Donatella Cinelli Colombini and aged in the Casato Prime Donne winery in Montalcino and in the Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda, Tuscany. Wines destined to the more demanding of wine lovers and to those who want to experience unique moments enjoying extraordinary and rare bottles. These will be delivered directly to your home.

3 WINES FOR A ROMANTIC DINNER

– 1 bottle of Sanchimento IGT Toscana Bianco 2020 Biologico, organic, in preview (a series of 2.000 bottles)

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– 1 bottle of Cenerentola Orcia Doc 2017, dreaming of the Val d’Orcia while waiting to come back to Tuscany (series of 9.300 bottles)

– 1 bottle of Passito IGT Toscana 2017, 0,375lt, to be served cool together with a creamy dessert … (series of 346 bottles)

3 WINES FOR A MEMORABLE DINNER

– 1 bottle of Rosa di Tetto IGT Toscana Rosé 2019, because a “Pink wine” is the best way to begin a great night (series of 2.000 bottles)
– 1 bottle of IOsonoDONATELLA Brunello di Montalcino 2012, the most important wine produced by Donatella. The very last bottles available that we hope will be opened in special occasions (series of 800 bottles)
– 1 bottle of Vin Santo del Chianti DOC 2008, 0,75lt to end with a sweet bang … if you do not finish the bottle there is no problem, because Vin Santo can be kept for months with its original cork as a closure (series of 600 bottles)

31 March 2021

ROSA DI TETTO IGT Toscana Rosato 2019

Rosé wines are extremely trendy in the new millennium. The appreciation of the consumers increases and with it the request for wines richer in personality, finesse and quality

Rosa di Tetto 2019 IGT Toscana – Donatella Cinelli Colombini

A project that at Fattoria del Colle, begins with the Sangiovese grapes and its specificities such as the particular aroma of violets, that in the Rosa di Tetto, blends with that of apples and cherries.
The BIO (organic) vineyards are cultivated by hand with obsessive care; the grapes are picked by hand, vinified, and refined under the observant eyes of the three estate winemakers, Barbara, Sabrina and Giada. These give origin to some small series of “family wines” wines made on the estate. In this case it is a production of only 2.000 bottles, real jewels destined to wine loving clients.
At Fattoria del Colle the production of rosé began more than 30 years ago with the name “Aqua di Tetto”. When Donatella Cinelli Colombini received the farm form her father Fausto Cinelli in 1998, she decided to change it into Rosa di Tetto and to put on the label the flowers from the old climbing rose that covers the facade of the 16th century villa.

Rosa di Tetto 2019 IGT Toscana – Donatella Cinelli Colombini

The 2019 harvest quality wise has been considered one of the best in the last 50 years. It was abundant and with grapes never seen before. For this reason it was decided to begin with this vintage a change of style for the Rosa di Tetto, aiming at a type of rosé that is more complex, important and structured and where the Sangiovese imprint is very evident. A wine to drink “with the whole meal”.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ROSA DI TETTO IGT 2019

TYPE: rosé
PRODUCTION AREA: Tuscany, Trequanda, Fattoria del Colle, Cenerentola vineyard.
CLASSIFICATION: IGT Toscana Rosato
VINTAGE CHARACTERISTICS: mild and dry Winter. In the Summer the hot days were interrupted by great storms, there where vast temperature excursions between day and night, and this favoured the synthesis of the aromas.

17 March 2021