Castello di Fonterutoli

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Fonterutoli Chianti Classico

Chianti Classico

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£21.60

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Castello di Fonterutoli Chianti Classico Riserva Ser Lapo

Chianti Classico

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£20.17

£24.59

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Mazzei Concerto Di Fonterutoli

Toscana

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£39.92

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Castello di Fonterutoli Philip

Toscana

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£24.28

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Mazzei Castello Fonterutoli Chianti Classico Gran Selezione

Chianti Classico

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£40.10

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'Siepi' Castello di Fonterutoli

Toscana

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£92.30

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Castello di Fonterutoli Concerto IGT

Toscana

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£79.00

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About Castello di Fonterutoli

The word Chianti enters wine history through a Mazzei. On 16 December 1398 the Florentine notary Ser Lapo Mazzei recorded a payment to Piero di Tino Riccio for six barrels of Chianti wine. He wrote it in his letters to the merchant Francesco Datini. That is the first documented use of the name for a wine.

In 1435 his granddaughter Smeralda married Piero di Agnolo da Fonterutoli. The marriage brought the estate into the family, where it has stayed for twenty-four generations. Filippo and Francesco Mazzei lead the company today. Francesco drove the purchase of Belguardo in the Maremma in 1997. The twenty-fifth generation is already at work: Giovanni oversees Il Caggio, home of the Ipsus Chianti Classico Gran Selezione, and Lapo runs the retail side. Philip, the estate's Cabernet Sauvignon, honours Filippo Mazzei, the eighteenth century Tuscan who exchanged ideas with Thomas Jefferson.

Fonterutoli covers 650 hectares between Castellina and Siena. Vines take up 110 of them, planted between 220 and 570 metres in seven zones. The zones divide into 114 parcels, picked by hand and made into wine separately. Agnese Mazzei, the family's architect, designed the winery that makes this possible. It works by gravity across three levels, with 74 tapered steel vats of 100 hectolitres each, about 13,300 bottles' worth. The barrel cellar sits 15 metres down in the rock. There, five natural springs hold temperature and humidity steady for more than 3000 casks. The building is part of the Toscana Wine Architecture circuit of designer cellars.

From these parcels come the Fonterutoli Chianti Classico, the Ser Lapo Riserva and the estate's Gran Selezione wines, led by Castello Fonterutoli and its single-UGA siblings. Siepi, the estate's benchmark blend of Sangiovese and Merlot, comes from the parcel of the same name. Concerto di Fonterutoli has been in production for more than four decades.

The family's map now runs well beyond Chianti. At Belguardo in the Maremma the focus has swung to Vermentino. The range spans the Maremma Toscana DOC bottling, Belguardo V, a Vermentino Superiore built on clones from Corsica and Sardinia, the Tirrenico red and a Bronzone Morellino di Scansano Riserva. At Zisola, outside Noto in south-east Sicily, the Mazzei make Noto Rosso from Nero d'Avola, the Doppiozeta selection under Noto DOC, the Azisa Grillo and the Effe Emme Petit Verdot. Across the estates, farming leans on company compost and green manure, and chemical weedkillers have been dropped. The family calculates that Fonterutoli absorbs more carbon than it emits, though the wines carry no certification badge.

Few Tuscan estates are as open to visitors. The Fonterutoli Wine Tour runs 75 minutes through the working cellar and includes four wines. Private tiers stretch to the 3 Cru, 3 UGA, 3 Gran Selezione tasting: 100 minutes and six wines. There are wine and food experiences too, plus private visits at Zisola and Belguardo. The Fonterutoli hamlet operates as a widespread hotel, the Castello di Fonterutoli Wine Resort, with rooms and suites scattered through its old houses. The Osteria di Fonterutoli serves its gourmet take on Tuscan cooking every day of the week.

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A widespread hotel inside the estate's own hamlet: rooms and suites spread through the village's stone houses, with the Osteria, the village bar and the winery a short walk apart. Books online with seasonal stay-and-taste packages.

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Localita Fonterutoli, 53011 Castellina in Chianti (SI)

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What Castello di Fonterutoli makes

Castello di Fonterutoli's current bottle selection is led by Toscana IGT. The clearest grape signal comes from Sangiovese and Merlot.

Key grapes

Sangiovese (san-jo-vay-zeh) is the undisputed king of red wines in central Italy.

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Merlot is a red grape with a serious Italian footprint.

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Cabernet Sauvignon is a red grape born in Bordeaux, and it reshaped modern Italian wine.

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Common questions

Yes, daily, and with unusual range. The Fonterutoli Wine Tour lasts 75 minutes, includes four wines and costs 45 euros. Private formats step up from there. The 3 Cru, 3 UGA, 3 Gran Selezione tasting costs 85 euros. The Icons, at 170 euros, pours two vintages each of Castello di Fonterutoli, Concerto and Siepi. Tours are booked through the estate's site, mazzei.it.
Yes. The Castello di Fonterutoli Wine Resort is a hotel spread through the hamlet. Its rooms and suites sit in the village's stone houses. Booking is online, and the Osteria di Fonterutoli is on the doorstep. The address is Localita Fonterutoli, Castellina in Chianti, telephone +39 0577 735790.
Siepi is the Mazzei family's best-known wine, a Toscana IGT. It headlines the estate's top tastings. The Super Tuscan Grand Tasting pours three vintages of Siepi beside three of Concerto di Fonterutoli. The Icons adds the Castello di Fonterutoli Gran Selezione to the line-up.
Because the region's paper history starts with them. On 16 December 1398, Ser Lapo Mazzei ordered six barrels of Chianti wine from Francesco Datini. His letter is seen as the first written record of Chianti as a wine zone. The family has made wine at Fonterutoli without a break since 1435.
Fonterutoli is a hamlet on the via Chiantigiana, just outside Castellina in Chianti, in the province of Siena. That is roughly halfway between Florence and Siena on the old road south. The whole village belongs to the estate.
Yes, two addresses in the same hamlet. The Osteria di Fonterutoli is the estate's restaurant. The Societa Orchestrale bar serves wine by the glass. Wine and food packages pair the cellar tour with lunch or dinner. They run from a tapas lunch at 75 euros to the VIP wine and food pairing at 160 euros.

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