Mazzei MAZZEI FONTERUTOLI Chianti Classico 2021

Description

The Chianti Classico of Fonterutoli is the result of a variety of parcels owned by the Mazzei family in Castellina and Radda in Chianti. A wine that has become a point of comparison for the category. The traits that best describe it are: elegant body, fruity aromas with spicy references, soft and velvety tannins. Fonterutoli is one of the noble estates of the Chianti Classico most steeped in history. The company is in the center of the small village of Fonterutoli, 5 kilometers south of

Castellina in Chianti and is owned by Marchesi Mazzei since 1435 when the niece of Ser Lapo Mazzei – a notable from the Carmignano area and also the first person to use the name Chianti in connection with wine (a white wine in a document from 1398) – married Piero di Agnolo di Fonterutoli. Another Lapo Mazzei, together with his sons Filippo and Francesco, made Fonterutoli one of the most dynamic companies in the denomination at the end of the 2000s with important investments both in the vineyard and in the cellar. Today the company can count on 117 hectares of specialized vineyards divided into five areas located between 220 and 550 meters above sea level, which are in turn divided into 120 individual parcels. All in perfect harmony with other more marginal crops and with the woods, an ideal environment for different types of game that populate it in its natural state. The grapes from the 120 parcels are harvested by hand, vinified and matured in wood separately, translating the value of diversity into an extraordinary breadth of aromas and complexity.