Est. 2000 
14 wines 
Tastings
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Booking required 
Chianti Classico tasting
A 90 minute seated tasting at Tenuta di Nozzole built around the estate's Chianti Classico.
Book this experienceTenute Folonari
Tenute Folonari is the six-estate Tuscan group that Ambrogio Folonari and his son Giovanni set up in 2000, with its cellar and tasting rooms 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 appellations.
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Tuscany
- Est. 2000
- 14 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Wines from Tenute Folonari
Experiences at Tenute Folonari
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Great Tour of Tuscany
Ninety minutes at Nozzole tasting across the Folonari estates rather than staying inside Chianti Classico.
Book this experienceA life and wine story
The estate's longest listed experience, two hours at Nozzole and the top of its published price list.
Book this experienceChianti Classico tasting
A 90 minute seated tasting at Tenuta di Nozzole built around the estate's Chianti Classico.
Book this experienceAbout Tenute Folonari
The Folonari wine story starts a long way from Chianti. Lorenzo Folonari, born in Valtellina in 1729, moved the family to Val Camonica, and 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 in 1967, Tenuta di Nozzole in 1971. In 2000 his son Ambrogio and 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, with the villa 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, and it is joined by the Le Bruniche Chardonnay vineyard and 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, between Greve and the hill village of Montefioralle, sits on gravel and marl of Pliocene origin, and 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, higher up at Panzano in Chianti on white clay and galestro, carries about 15 hectares of Chardonnay and Pinot Nero. Cabreo Il Borgo and the La Pietra Chardonnay both come from these vineyards, as do two old farm buildings on the Zano estate that the family converted into guest accommodation.
The coastal and southern estates widen the map. Tenuta Campo al Mare farms 30 hectares of Bolgheri split into six parcels, each planted to a single variety: sandy Fornacelle near the Tyrrhenian for Vermentino, the higher Segalari vineyard for the Cabernet Franc of Selvante, with Baia al Vento from Merlot and the Petit Verdot of Gallico alongside the Bolgheri Rosso. At Camigliano, southwest of Montalcino, Tenuta La Fuga has belonged to the family since 2001 and is the smallest holding at 9.8 hectares of vineyard, with 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.
What that adds up to for a buyer here is unusual reach under one family name. The Folonari bottles listed on this site cover Chianti Classico Riserva from Nozzole, the Cabreo pair of Il Borgo and La Pietra, Il Pareto, Bolgheri reds and Vermentino from Campo al Mare, and Brunello di Montalcino from La Fuga. Two further estates complete the group: TorCalvano at Montepulciano for Vino Nobile, and Vigne a Porrona in the Maremma for Morellino di Scansano and Montecucco Sangiovese.
Visiting Tenute Folonari
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Via di Nozzole 12, 50022 Passo dei Pecorai, Greve in Chianti, Firenze
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Tenute Folonari on the Tuscany wine atlas
What Tenute Folonari makes
Tenute Folonari's current bottle selection is led by Bolgheri DOC. The clearest grape signal comes from Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese.
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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, 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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