Montepulciano & Valdichiana

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Producer profiles

Producers in Montepulciano & Valdichiana

• Azienda Agricola ContucciFamily estate in Montepulciano making Vino Nobile from exclusively local grape varieties, with cellars built into the town's medieval defensive walls.
• Azienda Agricola PolizianoAzienda Agricola Poliziano presents Tuscan reds shaped by French-oak élevage, from the flagship Vino Nobile Asinone to the modern, ageworthy Le Stanze.
• Cantina Senesi AretiniA 235-grower cooperative in Sinalunga farming 350 hectares across the Siena-Arezzo border, making dry, mineral-driven Chianti from Sangiovese under minimal cellar intervention since 1971.
• Donatella Cinelli ColombiniDonatella Cinelli Colombini runs two Tuscan estates: Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino, where every vintner and winemaker is a woman, and Fattoria del Colle near Trequanda. The Brunello is aged in artisan-made 5- and 7-hectolitre French-oak casks with no barriques.
• Fattoria Il MuroPancaro family estate outside Arezzo making Chianti DOCG and a Chardonnay IGT from galestro hillside vineyards above the Castro stream valley, with a fresh, accessible house style.
• Podernuovo Srl Società AgricolaIGT Toscana estate in San Casciano dei Bagni, southern Tuscany, built from cleared ground by Paolo and Giovanni Bulgari after a 2004 purchase of abandoned vineyards. First harvest 2009. Three wines: Therra (Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot), Sotirio (Sangiovese), Argirio (Cabernet Franc). Organic farming, hand harvest, purpose-built cellar by Alvisi-Kirimoto.
• PolizianoCertified organic estate in Montepulciano farming Prugnolo Gentile across four Tuscan zones, with a range that moves from an approachable Rosso through village Vino Nobile to two single-vineyard crus, Asinone and Pieve di Caggiole.
• Societa Cooperativa Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano Societa AgricolaA grower cooperative at Montepulciano in southeastern Tuscany, founded in 1937 by fourteen local producers, now counting roughly 400 members farming approximately 1,000 hectares. Its Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG is built from Prugnolo Gentile and aged in Slavonian-oak casks in two underground barrel cellars.
• Tenuta di Gracciano della SetaFamily estate on the Gracciano hills in the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG zone, farming Prugnolo Gentile on silty-clay soils since the early nineteenth century. Vannozza della Seta manages the estate; the Podere Rovisci parcel feeds the Riserva.
• Tenuta LiciniaGalestro-rooted Tuscan estate near Lucignano making floral, graphite-edged Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese with light extraction.
• Tenute del CerroItaly's largest private Vino Nobile producer, with five estates spanning Tuscany and Umbria and three distinct Italian red wine identities.
• Tipici dell'AretinoAgricultural cooperative in Arezzo province, southeastern Tuscany, founded in 1970. Around 400 member growers farm 800 hectares across Chianti Colli Aretini and Valdichiana. Sangiovese-based Chianti is the core red; D'Estate Vermentino is the white anchor.