The grapes were perfectly ripe but small, with thick, quite hard skins. Therefore, after removing the stems, the grapes were crushed. The vinification was the most delicate ever, and after fermentation, the newly born wine remained on the grape skins in closed vats much longer than usual. At the same time, the arrival of the new barrels was brought forward so that the 2022 wine could be transferred to oak containers in November.

These seemingly small changes are actually very important and able to smoothen the tannins that were abundant in the wine. The result is a powerful, harmonious, and pleasant IGT Toscana Il Drago e le 8 Colombe, a wine that beautifully captures the Tuscan countryside and the hot, dry vintage in which it was born. A wine with great personality that pairs well with Tuscan cuisine, Asian dishes, and brunches featuring cold cuts and cheeses.

IL DRAGO E LE 8 COLOMBE: A WINE DEDICATED TO MEN IN THE WOMEN’S WINERY

Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s wineries—Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino and Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda—are the first in Italy to have an entirely female staff. The cellar workers, winemakers, sales staff, and tourist reception staff are all women. But there are important male figures in the company and in Donatella’s family, and she felt the need to dedicate a wine to them: Il Drago e le 8 Colombe.…

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2019 the harvest of the super Sangiovese, the year in which the bunches and berries of the king of Tuscany grape variety looked like Cabernet, the king of the Bordeaux vineyard.A dream of a harvest, with abundant, perfect grapes that were harvested by hand and then vinified in small vats where the must quickly took on a very intense colour.

The bunches of Sagrantino and Merlot, which also make up the blend of Il Drago e le 8 Colombe were also of the highest quality. Each grape variety was vinified separately but, to make the most of the richness of the 2019 grapes, all made a very long post fermentation maceration. For this reason the racking was postponed for a week – ten days for all types: Sangiovese, Merlot and Sagrantino.

There was also a small variation in the aging in cask compared to usual. When the wine was ready to be moved from the vats to the barrels, the Covid epidemic caused the first lockdown, forcing the cellar work to be slowed down. Too bad because precisely because of the superior quality of the vintage, the quantity of barrels purchased was greater than usual.

IL DRAGO E LE 8 COLOMBE: A WINE DEDICATED TO MEN FROM THE ALL-FEMALE WINERY

The cellars belonging to Donatella Cinelli Colombini, Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino and Fattoria del Colle, in Trequanda, where this wine is born, are the first in Italy with an entirely female staff.…

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Leone Rosso Doc Orcia wine is dedicated Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s ancestors who built Fattoria del Colle in 1592 and had a rampant lion in their coat of arms. The grapes for the Leone Rosso Doc Orcia are born right in the vineyards of the farm.

A RED LION, SYMBOL OF THE ANCESTORS WHO FOUNDED THE ESTATE IN 1592

This is the Socini or Sozzini family composed of jurists and philosophers. Two of them – Lelio (1525-1562) and Fausto (1539-1604) – went down in history for having played an important role among the European free thinkers who gave birth to Protestantism.
It was precisely their opposition to the Church that led the family to ruin and the Colle farm to be confiscated. The property was bought back by Donatella’s great-grandfather, the engineer Livio Socini around 1919 who almost by chance, gained it from a bankruptcy. When he visited it he realized that in the chapel and in the villa  there were his identical coats of arms and understood that fate had put back in his hands, after 400 years, the farm founded by his ancestor Claudio Socini.

A mysterious thread with the past that Donatella Cinelli Colombini also felt when her father Fausto gave her the Fattoria del Colle in 1998.

LEONE ROSSO DOC ORCIA 2019

2019 is a memorable harvest.…

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