Est. 2000 
25 wines 
Tastings
Tours
Accommodation
Booking required 
Wine area
Chianti Classico
The galestro and alberese hills between Florence and Siena, where Sangiovese became Italy's most quoted red.
Tenute Folonari
Tenute Folonari is the six-estate Tuscan group that Ambrogio Folonari and his son Giovanni set up in 2000. The cellar and the tasting rooms are at Tenuta di Nozzole, in Greve in Chianti. From that hill the family also farms Bolgheri, Montalcino, Montepulciano and the Maremma. So a single sitting at Nozzole can run from Chianti Classico to Brunello and Bolgheri reds. Under the barrel cellar sits the group's caveau of older vintages, more than 25,000 bottles drawn from seven Tuscan denominations.
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Tuscany
- Est. 2000
- 25 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Wines from Tenute Folonari
About Tenute Folonari
The Folonari wine story starts a long way from Chianti. Lorenzo Folonari was born in Valtellina in 1729, and he moved the family to Val Camonica. By 1882 his descendants Italo and Francesco had shifted the firm's base to Brescia. In 1911 they bought Ruffino, then known for Chianti Classico shipped in straw-wrapped flasks. The turn towards estate wine came in the 1960s, when Nino Folonari stepped away from volume production and bought land at Greve in Chianti. Tenute del Cabreo came in 1967, Tenuta di Nozzole in 1971. In 2000 his son Ambrogio and his grandson Giovanni founded Ambrogio e Giovanni Folonari Tenute, around those Greve properties and the estates they went on to add elsewhere in Tuscany.
Tenuta di Nozzole is the address visitors want. The farm is documented from the 1300s and covers 385 hectares, 90 of them vineyard and 15 olive grove. The villa stands on a ridge that climbs from 150 to around 300 metres. Sangiovese leads here, in the estate Chianti Classico, in the La Forra Riserva and in the Gran Selezione bottlings. It is joined by the Le Bruniche Chardonnay vineyard and by two plots of Cabernet Sauvignon that produce Il Pareto. The barrel cellar dates from the 1990s and runs beneath vaulted ceilings. A passage from it leads to the caveau, where more than 25,000 bottles of older vintages from the group's cru wines are held.
Tenute del Cabreo accounts for the Supertuscan half of the range. Zano sits between Greve and the hill village of Montefioralle, on gravel and marl of Pliocene origin. It was here that the family planted the Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot clones selected in the early 1970s, after studying French viticulture. Casa di Sala lies higher up at Panzano in Chianti, on white clay and galestro, and carries about 37 acres of Chardonnay and Pinot Nero. Cabreo Il Borgo and the La Pietra Chardonnay both come from these vineyards. Two old farm buildings on the Zano estate were converted by the family into guest accommodation.
The coastal and southern estates widen the map. Tenuta Campo al Mare farms about 74 acres of Bolgheri, split into six parcels, each planted to a single variety. Sandy Fornacelle, near the Tyrrhenian, carries the Vermentino. The higher Segalari vineyard gives the Cabernet Franc of Selvante. Baia al Vento comes from Merlot and Gallico from Petit Verdot, alongside the Bolgheri Rosso. At Camigliano, south-west of Montalcino, Tenuta La Fuga has belonged to the family since 2001. It is the smallest holding, with about 24 acres of vineyard and vine age running from about 10 to 30 years. It makes Rosso di Montalcino, the La Fuga Brunello di Montalcino and the Le Due Sorelle Riserva from Sangiovese Grosso.
That adds up to unusual reach under one family name. The range covers Chianti Classico Riserva from Nozzole, the Cabreo pair of Il Borgo and La Pietra, and Il Pareto. It also covers Bolgheri reds and Vermentino from Campo al Mare, and Brunello di Montalcino from La Fuga. Two further estates complete the group. TorCalvano at Montepulciano makes Vino Nobile, and Vigne a Porrona in the Maremma makes Morellino di Scansano and Montecucco Sangiovese.
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Winery
Tenute Folonari
Greve in Chianti, Firenze · Chianti Classico
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Visit & Experiences
6 bookable experiences at Tenute Folonari
6 tastings, checked by our editors. From €35.
Tasting & Tour
Chianti Classico
1h 30
From €35 per person
A path that will accompany you to discover the Chianti Classico between tradition and innovation. The tour includes a visit to the barrique cellar of the Nozzole Estate, to the museum of historical vintages where the best labels of the Folonari estates are kept from 1980 to today and a guided tasting of the three Chianti Classico labels: Nozzole Chianti Classico, La Forra Chianti Classico Riserva and Giovanni Folonari Chianti Classico Gran Selezione. The absolute protagonist is the Sangiovese which, in the Nozzole estate, located in a unique ecosystem of Mediterranean maquis, in the hills of Greve in Chianti, expresses its maximum potential and elegance. Upon request, it is possible to accompany the tasting with a platter of Tuscan specialties. We kindly ask you to report the presence of minors for a better management of the experience, the contribution for them is required only in the case of a platter of Tuscan specialties to accompany your degusta
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The evolution of the Supertuscans
1h 30
From €40 per person
The tour includes a visit to the barrel cellar of Tenuta di Nozzole, to the historic cellar where the best labels of the estates from 1980 to today are preserved and a guided tasting to discover the three Supertuscans that represent the winemaking history of Tenute Folonari. From the territory of Greve in Chianti to Bolgheri, the oenological innovation in the use of international grapes and French barriques in the maturation phase has made it possible to obtain complex, powerful and elegant wines. We will accompany you on a sensorial journey full of emotions through three protagonists of the Tuscan wine renaissance. What's included: - Visit to the barrel cellar and museum of historical vintages - Tasting of 4 labels - Organoleptic analysis of the wines being tasted - Selection of cheeses and toasted bread with our Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Tenuta di Nozzole
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Tasting & Tour
Bolgheri away
1h 30
From €40 per person
From the small and prestigious DOC of Bolgheri, our wines from the Campo al Mare estate. This denomination with a relatively recent history (born in 1994) boasts an international reputation as a new point of reference in the world wine scene. Come and discover our labels on the Nozzole estate. A visit that will introduce you to the history of the Folonari family, through their winemaking projects and will end with a tasting of Bolgheri wines. What's included - Tasting of 4 labels - Organoleptic analysis of the wines being tasted - Pairing with Tuscan gastronomic specialties Dogs are welcome, but will not be allowed access to the barrel cellar for food hygiene reasons.
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Tasting
Chianti Classico tasting
90 minutes
From €35
A 90 minute seated tasting at Tenuta di Nozzole built around the estate's Chianti Classico.
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Tasting
Great Tour of Tuscany
90 minutes
From €60
Ninety minutes at Nozzole tasting across the Folonari estates rather than staying inside Chianti Classico.
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Tasting
A life and wine story
2 hours
€150
The estate's longest listed experience, two hours at Nozzole and the top of its published price list.
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Via di Nozzole 12, 50022 Passo dei Pecorai, Greve in Chianti, Firenze
What Tenute Folonari makes
Tenute Folonari's current bottle selection is led by Toscana IGT. The clearest grape signal comes from Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Visits are at Tenuta di Nozzole, Via di Nozzole 12, at Passo dei Pecorai in Greve in Chianti, roughly 25 km south of Florence. The estate lists eight booked experiences. They run from a 90 minute white-wine tasting at 25 euro to a two hour session at 150 euro. The group's other estates do not run the same visitor programme.
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