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Tenuta di Bibbiano Wine
Bibbiano is midway between
Florence and Siena, in
Castellina. It's a 220 hectare
estate with 25 hectares of
vines. Half of these were
planted in the late 1950s,
while the remainder was
planted between 2000 and
2005.
Here, the landscape is
different. It's a smoother
panorama, with many fields
that you don't really see in
the higher parts of Chianti,
and enjoys a dry, warm
climate.
It's a family property that's
been in the same hands since
1865. For almost 60 years
from 1943 the winemaking
was in the hands of the same
enologist, Julio Gambelli, who
still tastes the wines every
year, but since 2001 Stefano
Porcinai, a consultant who
works with a number of
properties, and who had
previously worked for the
Consorzio for 15 years.
How has Stefano changed
things? 'The main difference is
in the care of the vineyard',
explains owner Tommaso
Marrocchesi Marzi
(above). 'Julio Gambelli (his
predecessor) is a great taster
and skilled in the winery, but
didn't have any particular
interest in the vineyard.
Stefano was an agronomist
before he was an oenologist,
so he changed the way the
vines are cultivated and opted
for lower yields'.
One of the features of
Bibbiano is that they work
with Colorino, a lesser known
grape variety of Chianti. It's a
teinturier (red-fleshed)
variety, and in Autumn the
leaves of the vines turn dark
red. It's a very old grape
typical of this area of Chianti
Classico, but while it adds
colour to the wines, its
otherwise quite neutral in
flavour. |
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