Our wines, rich in heritage
A Unique Story
The Etruscans: fascinating and mysterious people. But who were the Etruscans really? Their civilisation is the result of a process of integration between various peoples and cultures that took place in Etruria at the end of the second millennium. Undoubtedly there is a deep and decisive influence on the Etruscan culture of the Greek world (artisanal and artistic ideas) but also of the Phoenician world (in particular the treatment of ivories and metals).
The history of the Etruscans is therefore the history of the movement of people, of the circulation of products often carrying messages from the Mediterranean and the East. Among these products is wine. The Etruscans developed a winemaking system that resulted in a drink with singular organoleptic characteristics: aromatic, very fragrant and precious. They harvested the ripe grapes, transported them to the cellars in wooden crates to preserve their quality, then the barefoot men trampled the deposited bunches to obtain the must or first wine; then they waited about ten days for the end of the fermentation to proceed with the racking of the wine in barrels. Here, the men passed to another phase of vinification; they returned to the barrels for a new pressing of the grapes left in the marc. A second racking wine is thus obtained which, with the initial must, represents the entire production. The wine was deposited and stored in amphorae and prepared for shipment.
Today in Clantenova, thousands of years later, in the wonderful lands of Chianti, we seek to preserve the art of making wine from those values which over the centuries have made of wine a tradition, but, above all, a passion for travel and renewed encounters.
