Fontodi – The Greatest Producer in Chianti! The Biggest Offering Ever Including the newly released 2023 vintage wines.
If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.
SCOTT LYNCH, The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Manetti family has owned Fontodi since 1969 but has been in Chianti for centuries. Though they have always made wine, their primary business is still the production of Chianti´s finest terracotta at their factory in Ferrone. Giovanni Manetti has run the property since 1980 and ensures the wines are as meticulously made as the vineyards are immaculately tended. Their 80 hectares of vineyard, 90% of which are Sangiovese, are situated in the prime i´concadi´oroi´ (golden shell) of Panzano, and over the past decade these have been converted to organic viticulture. Giovanni is now following biodynamic principles to obtain the best quality fruit. There are 80 hectares of south facing vineyards, all of which are found in an amphitheatre-shaped valley to the south of Panzano. This shape facilitates the full ripening of the grapes. The stony galestro soils allow for excellent drainage and encourage the vines to put down deep roots.
Fontodi has been one of our favorite wineries in Tuscany since before I bought the store in 1998, these wines were on the wine list at Café Maxx when I was the sommelier there from 1990-1996 and we have hosted dozens of events with the wines of Fontodi over the years. We just had Giovanni’s Manetti and his son Bernardo here for a special night at the wine bar in November and it is good to see that the next generation of the Manetti family is involved in the family business.
We do not even look at the press when we order the new vintage from Fontodi because even in challenging vintages like 2023 they make outstanding wines and as I always say the vintage is just an indication for how long to cellar the wines and even the Chianti Classico from Fontodi can be cellared for two to three decades almost every year.
If you LOVE Fontodi’s wines we have one of the largest collections of their wine in the world with bottles up to 12 liters in size with over 80 different selections going back to the 1997 vintage!! We offer these sale prices for the next two weeks leading up to the releases of the 2023 vintage which should be here in mid-July.
Fontodi – The Best Producer in Chianti!
2024 Fontodi Meriggio Colli Toscana Centrale IGT, Tuscany
Price: $60.00 Your Price: $54.00
2023 Fontodi Meriggio Colli Toscana Centrale IGT
Price: $56.00 Your Price: $50.40 Quantity in Stock: 26
This Sauvignon Blanc is made from Fontodi’s organically tended, north-facing La Rota vineyard, this wine’s Sauvignon Blanc grapes ferment in temperature-controlled stainless steel, and the wine ages on the lees for six months, also in stainless steel. Just over 650 cases made each vintage.
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2022 FONTODI PINOT NERO TUSCANY
Price: $70.00 Your Price: $63.00
2021 FONTODI PINOT NERO TUSCANY
Price: $83.00 Your Price: $74.70
2018 Fontodi Pinot Nero Case Via Tuscany
Price: $82.00 Your Price: $73.80 Quantity in Stock: 1
2015 Fontodi Pinot Nero Tuscany
Price: $84.00 Your Price: $75.60 Quantity in Stock: 11
The 2015 Pinot Nero Case Via is gorgeous. Racy and perfumed, with no hard edges, the Pinot Nero captures all the best the vintage has to offer. Rose petal, lavender, sage and spice notes infuse a core of red/purplish fruit in this very pretty wine. The Pinot Nero is not especially varietal - sometimes an issue with this wine in warmer years - but it is absolutely delicious. -James Suckling.
2022 Fontodi Syrah Case Via Tuscany
Price: $70.00 Your Price: $63.00
2021 Fontodi Syrah Case Vie Tuscany
Price: $85.00 Your Price: $76.50
Smoke and char, ripe fruit and light toasty oak character, with hints of new oak and spices mark the Fontodi Syrah Case Via. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins, fresh acidity and a flavorful finish. Made from organically-farmed fruit, this Syrah has big dark fruit, chewy tannins, and just a touch of pepper on the finish.
2020 Fontodi Syrah Case Vie Tuscany
Price: $72.00 Your Price: $64.80
2018 Fontodi Syrah Case Vie Tuscany
Price: $81.90 Your Price: $73.71 Quantity in Stock: 5
2017 Fontodi Syrah Case Via Tuscany
Price: $81.00 Your Price: $72.90
2012 Fontodi Syrah Case Via Tuscany
Price: $93.00 Your Price: $83.70
2004 Fontodi Syrah Case Vie Tuscany
Price: $94.00 Your Price: $84.60 Quantity in Stock: 1
2003 FONTODI SYRAH CASE VIE TUSCANY
Price: $96.00 Your Price: $86.40
2000 Fontodi Syrah Tuscany
Price: $105.00 Your Price: $94.50
2023 Fontodi Chianti Classico
Price: $55.00 Your Price: $49.50
2022 Fontodi Chianti Classico
Price: $55.00 Your Price: $49.50 Quantity in Stock: 25
(94 Points) Emblematic of the exceptional quality offered at Chianti Classico’s annata level, Fontodi’s 2021 over-delivers yet again, exuding the wild, tousled, arid Tuscan countryside on a backdrop of dark, layered fruit. Hints of coffee and liquorice ripple through concentrated black cherry and blackberry. With ripe, gravelly tannins, this shows the power of the vintage without being forceful and maintains charismatic energy throughout. It's worth waiting a few more months before tucking in, but properly cellared, this will easily keep delivering for a decade. Decanter, Review Date: N/A
2021 Fontodi Chianti Classico DOCG Tuscany
Price: $64.00 Your Price: $57.60 Quantity in Stock: 11
2021 Fontodi Chianti Classico Magnum
Price: $132.00 Your Price: $118.80
2020 Fontodi Chianti Classico (3L)
Price: $310.00 Your Price: $279.00
2020 Fontodi Chianti Classico Magnum
Price: $126.00 Your Price: $113.40
2020 Fontodi Chianti Classico
Price: $60.00 Your Price: $54.00
2023 Fontodi Chianti Classico Filetta di Lamole
Price: $60.00 Your Price: $54.00
2021 Fontodi Filetta Di Lamole Chianti Classico
Price: $55.00 Your Price: $49.50 Quantity in Stock: 1
(93 points) The 2021 Chianti Classico Filetta di Lamole is fabulous. In fact, it is the best edition of this wine yet, as it marries all the aromatic intensity and energy of Lamole with an extra kick of fruit and mid-palate pliancy. Dark red cherry, plum, spice, rose petal, crushed rocks and herbs build into the layered finish. What a wine. -Vinous.
2019 Fontodi Filetta di Lamole Chianti Classico
Price: $57.00 Your Price: $51.30
2018 Fontodi Filetta Di Lamole Chianti Classico
Price: $57.00 Your Price: $51.30
2020 Fontodi Chianti Classico Dino Amphora
Price: $92.00 Your Price: $82.80
2018 Fontodi Chianti Classico Dino Amphora
Price: $86.00 Your Price: $77.40 Quantity in Stock: 6
2016 Fontodi Chianti Classico Dino Amphora
Price: $84.00 Your Price: $75.60 Quantity in Stock: 2
(93 Points) The 2016 Dino is 100% Sangiovese done in terra cotta which brings out the wine's perfumed aromatics and bright acid profile. A touch of reduction -typical of wines done in amphora - adds striking character to play off the young Sangiovese acids and tannins. Dino remains distinctive if hard to place stylistically within the range as it is quite different from the other wines here. Vinous
2023 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO 3 Liter
Price: $660.00 Your Price: $594.00
2023 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO Magnum
Price: $285.00 Your Price: $255.60
2023 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO
Price: $136.00 Your Price: $122.40
2022 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $150.00 Your Price: $135.00 Quantity in Stock: 10
(95 points) Blackberry, black currant, plum, tar and sweet spice flavors are aligned with thick, beefy tannins in this red. Unevolved at this stage, showing plenty of fruit that needs to come together with the structural components. Best from 2028 through 2045. 1,600 cases made, 670 cases imported. Wine Spectator
2021 Fontodi Chianti Classico Vigna Del Sorbo Grand Selezione Docg Magnum
Price: $300.00 Your Price: $270.00
2021 Fontodi Chianti Classico Vigna Del Sorbo Grand Selezione Docg
Price: $145.00 Your Price: $130.50 Quantity in Stock: 3
2020 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO MAGNUM
Price: $305.00 Your Price: $274.50
2020 Fontodi Chianti Riserva Vigna Sorbo 3 LITER
Price: $595.00 Your Price: $535.50
2020 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo
Price: $147.00 Your Price: $132.30 Quantity in Stock: 1
2019 Fontodi Vigna Del Sorbo Chianti Classico Riserva (3 Liter)
Price: $816.00 Your Price: $734.40
2019 Fontodi Vigna Del Sorbo Chianti Classico Riserva Magnum
Price: $354.00 Your Price: $318.60
2019 Fontodi Vigna Del Sorbo Chianti Classico Riserva
Price: $170.00 Your Price: $153.00
2018 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $180.00 Your Price: $162.00
2017 Fontodi Chianti Riserva Vigna Sorbo Gran Selezione MAGNUM
Price: $338.00 Your Price: $304.20
2017 Fontodi Chianti Classico Vigna del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $162.00 Your Price: $145.80
2016 Fontodi Chianti Classico Vigna del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $183.00 Your Price: $164.70
2014 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $145.00 Your Price: $130.50
2013 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $170.00 Your Price: $153.00
2012 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Gran Selezione
Price: $160.00 Your Price: $144.00
2012 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Gran Selezione DOCG 5 Liter
Price: $1315.50 Your Price: $1183.95
2011 Fontodi Vigna del Sorbo Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG 5 LITER
Price: $1308.00 Your Price: $1177.20
2011 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO 3 LITER
Price: $780.00 Your Price: $702.00
2011 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO MAGNUM
Price: $345.00 Your Price: $310.50
2011 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO
Price: $165.00 Your Price: $148.50
2009 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna del Sorbo MAGNUM
Price: $436.00 Your Price: $392.40
2009 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo
Price: $210.00 Your Price: $189.00
2008 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna del Sorbo
Price: $215.00 Your Price: $193.50
2006 Fontodi Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna Del Sorbo Magnum
Price: $470.00 Your Price: $423.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2000 FONTODI CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA VIGNA DEL SORBO
Price: $245.00 Your Price: $220.50
1998 Fontodi Vigna del Sorbo, Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG, Italy
Price: $240.00 Your Price: $216.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
1997 Fontodi Chianti Riserva Vigna Sorbo
Price: $195.00 Your Price: $175.50 Quantity in Stock: 1
(95 points) Another showy, highly expressive wine today, the 1997 Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna del Sorbo is quite resonant and giving today, but it needs quite a bit of air to show the full breadth of its personality. Freshly cut flowers, sweet spices and red berries are all supported by silky tannins. There is an immediacy and pure raciness to the 1997 that is compelling, but I wouldn't plan on cellaring this vintage as long as some others. The warm vintage produced small berries with thick skins, which gives the 1997 much of its density, and may explain why the wine needs so much air to become fully expressive. Stylistically, the 1997 reminds me of the 2009, but with a bit more texture. (AG) (2/2014) Vinous
2023 Fontodi Terrazze San Leolino Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Docg
Price: $167.50 Your Price: $150.75
2020 Fontodi Terrazze San Leonlino Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG, Italy
Price: $150.00 Your Price: $135.00 Quantity in Stock: 8
2019 Fontodi Terrazze San Leolino Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Docg
Price: $146.00 Your Price: $131.40
(96 Points) Fontodi’s brand spanking new Terrazze San Leolino Gran Selezione is a stunner. San Leolino was recognised locally as a cru site 200 years ago. The recently renewed terraces sit at 450 metres in Panzano but - unlike Fontodi’s Vigna del Sorbo, which is characterised by Galestro - the soil here is calcareous Alberese. Though recently bottled, this is forthright in its earthy, stony, mineral-like aromas. Elegant yet profound, the palate demonstrates decisive rose, red cherry and long-chained, enveloping tannins, finishing with a tangy salinity. It is still very buttoned up but has so much promise. Decanter
Fontodi Flaccianello Key Points:
1. 100% Sangiovese aged in French oak barrels
2. Since 2001 made from the estate’s best fruit across a number of vineyards in Panzano’s historic Conca d’Oro, prior to that a strict single-vineyard wine.
3. Flaccianello’s status as an icon wine is cemented beginning in 2001
4. One of the more powerful of the 100% Sangioveses from Chianti Classico
5. Aging potential: 20 years
2023 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany 3 Liter
Price: $1140.00 Your Price: $1026.00
2023 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany Magnum
Price: $506.00 Your Price: $455.40
2023 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $246.00 Your Price: $221.40
2022 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany Magnum
Price: $520.00 Your Price: $468.00
2022 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $235.00 Your Price: $211.50 Quantity in Stock: 10
2021 Fontodi Flaccianello Tuscan 3 Liter
Price: $1035.00 Your Price: $931.50
2021 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany MAGNUM
Price: $460.00 Your Price: $414.00 Quantity in Stock: 5
2021 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $220.00 Your Price: $198.00 Quantity in Stock: 5
(98 points) The 2021 Flaccianello della Pieve is another exceptional wine from Fontodi this year. Ripe, silky tannins wrap around a core of dark fruit as the 2021 makes its presence felt from the first taste. Sumptuous, racy and dense, this is just magnificent. As has been the case for some time, Flaccianello is a blend of mostly three parcels throughout the estate but closer to town. -Vinous.
2020 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany MAGNUM
Price: $420.00 Your Price: $378.00
2020 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany 3 Liter
Price: $960.00 Your Price: $864.00
2020 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve ( 6 Liter)
Price: $2220.00 Your Price: $1998.00
2020 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $200.00 Your Price: $180.00 Quantity in Stock: 11
2019 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve ( 12 Liter)
Price: $5650.00 Your Price: $5085.00
2019 FONTODI FLACCIANELLO Della Pieve TUSCANY MAGNUM
Price: $460.00 Your Price: $414.00
2019 FONTODI FLACCIANELLO Della Pieve TUSCANY 3 Liter
Price: $1056.00 Your Price: $950.40
2019 FONTODI FLACCIANELLO Della Pieve TUSCANY
Price: $216.00 Your Price: $194.40 Quantity in Stock: 11
2018 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany 3 Liter
Price: $1980.00 Your Price: $1782.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2018 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $412.50 Your Price: $371.25 Quantity in Stock: 12
2018 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany MAGNUM
Price: $850.00 Your Price: $765.00
2017 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Tuscany 3 Liter
Price: $1115.00 Your Price: $1003.50
2017 Fontodi Flaccianello Tuscany Magnum
Price: $485.00 Your Price: $436.50
2017 Fontodi Flaccianello Tuscany
Price: $235.00 Your Price: $211.50
2016 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Tuscany MAGNUM
Price: $725.00 Your Price: $652.50 Quantity in Stock: 5
2016 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Tuscany 3 Liter
Price: $1475.00 Your Price: $1327.50 Quantity in Stock: 1
2016 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $300.00 Your Price: $270.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
2015 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $270.00 Your Price: $243.00 Quantity in Stock: 26
2014 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $270.00 Your Price: $243.00
2012 FONTODI FLACCIANELLO DELLA PIEVE TUSCANY 3 LITER
Price: $1296.00 Your Price: $1166.40
2012 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany Magnum
Price: $510.00 Your Price: $459.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
2011 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany Magnum
Price: $560.00 Your Price: $504.00
2011 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve ( 6 Liter)
Price: $2955.00 Your Price: $2659.50
2010 Fontodi Flaccianello Tuscany 3 Liter
Price: $1380.00 Your Price: $1242.00
2010 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $270.00 Your Price: $243.00 Quantity in Stock: 5
2009 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve ( 6 Liter)
Price: $2650.00 Your Price: $2385.00
2009 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $262.00 Your Price: $235.80
2008 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany MAGNUM
Price: $540.00 Your Price: $486.00
2008 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $255.00 Your Price: $229.50 Quantity in Stock: 10
2007 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany Magnum
Price: $578.00 Your Price: $520.20
2007 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany
Price: $278.00 Your Price: $250.20 Quantity in Stock: 7
2006 Fontodi Colli della Toscana Centrale Flaccianello 6 Liter
Price: $3500.00 Your Price: $3150.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2004 Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve Tuscany Magnum
Price: $680.00 Your Price: $612.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
(96 Points) Manetti-s 2004 Flaccianello della Pieve (100% Sangiovese aged in 100% new oak) is simply stunning. Fresh and vibrant, it offers compelling aromatics and endless layers of fruit that develop in the glass, with superb length on the palate and gorgeous overall balance. Although it is still holding back much today, make no mistake about it, Flaccianello is one of Italy-s blue-chip wines and the 2004 is a profound vintage for this wine. In order to enjoy its full range of expression readers will have to wait at least another five years after which it will provide memorable drinking to age 25, perhaps longer. A recent bottle of the 1982 was still full of life when tasted a few months ago. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2029. Wine Advocate # 171, June 2007
2009 FONTODI VIN SANTO 375ML
Price: $156.00 Your Price: $140.40
2011 FONTODI VIN SANTO 375ML
Price: $156.00 Your Price: $140.40
2012 Fontodi Vin Santo 375ml
Price: $142.00 Your Price: $127.80 Quantity in Stock: 6
2016 Fontodi Vin Santo (375ml)
Price: $160.00 Your Price: $144.00
Rich, opulent, and wonderfully complex, this organic Vin Santo from Fontodi offers terrific complexity, profound aromatics, and a decadent drinking experience. Layers of dried figs, apricots, and raisins are dusted with cocoa powder and baking spices, drizzled with salted caramel, and shot through with orange zest and marmalade in this important Vin Santo. A blend of Malvasia and Sangiovese, Fontodi’s Vin Santo gives a nice balance among its elements — silky tannins, fresh acidity, juicy fruits, salty minerals, and lingering sweetness.
The Fontodi estate is known for making exceptional Chianti Classico wine, as well as the finest in Tuscan extra virgin olive oil produced mainly from Frantoio, blended with Moraiolo, Leccino and Correggiolo varieties. The olives are harvested by hand and gently pressed as soon as possible to retain maximum freshness and fragrance of the fruit. The delicate balance of components produces oil rich in colour with fine aromas of artichoke leaf and an elegant taste.
Fontodi Olive Oil Tuscany 500ml
Price: $46.25 Quantity in Stock: 5
Fontodi Olive Oil Corregiolo Tuscany 250mL
Price: $31.25 Quantity in Stock: 16
A bit about Fontodi:
In the beginning there were Fontodi bricks and tiles. The work comes from fonte di odo, which means a place rich with water. Brunelleschi’s Florentine cupola was restored with Fontodi tiles. Ancient and modern day Florentine homes use Fontodi tiles for decoration and for their natural warmth. The same family made the bricks that pave the Uffizi Galley in Florence. This family with the same hand and the same will has also been involved with the wine but for a shorter time. It was Maria, the mother, who took an active part in the winery. She first got the family interested in wine They purchased the winery in 1968, and by 1980 the had moved there from Panzano. It is a difficult land to farm but it yields some of the finest stone and clay for bricks, and tiles, but the finest oils and the most noble wines.
Today, Fontodi is one of the leaders in Chianti, their wines have consistently impressed the critics; from the Gambero Rosso (the Italian wine bible), Robert Parker of The Wine Advocate (the American authority on wine), to The Wine Spectator (the most popular international wine/lifestyle publication), all of these publications have waxed poetic about the wines from this estate. The estate of Fontodi is on a hill just south of Panzano, from where you can look across the valley towards Rampolla and Cafaqqio. The gardens are full of Rosemary and in May the cuckoos are noisy. Since the Manetti family has owned the estate they have undertaken a major renovations of the vineyards. The young and talented owner, Giovanni Manetti, is one of the most far-sighted and intellectual grower-producers in all of Italy. His estate is enchanting, not only because of the villa where it is based is spectacularly beautiful, but also because Manetti has consistently made quality the first priority in all areas of the business, from rootstock, to trellising, to hiring the brightest mind in winemaking in all of Italy, Franco Bernabei. Franco has won more "Glasses" in Gambero Rosso than anyone in the history of the guide. Manetti’s greatest attribute is his common sense and his commanding personality which makes others stand up and listen.
The winery focuses its efforts on seven wines. Two Chianti’s, a Classico and a single vineyard wine called Vigna Del Sorbo. The Chianti Classico is 100% sangiovese and is the product of traditional winemaking. The wine is aged for six months in oak barrels, it completes its refinement in the bottle. It is a graceful, balanced, elegant, and stylish wine, but still easily to enjoy in its youth. The Vigna Del Sorbo Chianti Classico Riserva is a blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon blended according to traditional methods and matured in small oak casks.
The flagship wine Flaccianello Della Piave, a 100% Sangiovese based wine which until the 2004 vintage this wine was made from a single vineyard surrounding the age-old parish church in Panzano, but from 2005 on it has become a selection of the best Sangivoese from the entire property. This wine is made with carefully controlled fermentation and strict temperature control during the initial stages. It is big and powerful wine yet retains a ripe, soft, seductive character.
The only white produced here is named Meriggio, it is 100% sauvignon blanc grapes vinified in stainless steel tanks, temperature-controlled and matured on lees for 6 months. This is the first time this wine has been exported to the U.S. and we are proud to be the exclusive retailer of this wine in South Florida!
Two of the smallest production wines with the Fontodi moniker are the Syrah and Pinot Nero cuvées bottled under the Case Via label. The Pinot Noir reflects the influences on Giovanni's wine education, having grown up at a time when Chianti was a much derided region, and he looked abroad to Burgundy, among other regions, for inspiration. The Pinot Noir vines were planted in 1985, as were the Syrah vines, during a period of youthful experimentation for Manetti. The Syrah is one of the best examples of this varietal made in Italy and can rival the Flaccianello in quality in great vintages.
Fontodi also makes a Vinsanto, an Italian dessert wine, this is a blend of malvasia and sangiovese grapes which are naturally air dried on straw mats until December. After a soft pressing the wine is aged for four years in four different kinds of wood (oak, chestnut, cherry and juniper) in cask that vary also in age and capacity. This wine has a yellow-golden color and a delicate fragrance of honey and hazelnuts. On the palate it is dry, warm, fragrant but suitably soft.
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