About This Wine:

Good deep ruby red colour with purple highlights. Intense aromas, fresh, ripe fruit nose reminiscent of the harvest. Stylish, evolved, lingering. Slightly aggressive due to the lively tannins, but rounded enough to fully enhance the well-balanced body and structure. Full and lingering.

This wine is obtained from a selection of grapes grown from selected Sangiovese clones, with high quality features.

Vinification: Careful vinification respecting the traditional methods using selected yeasts and advanced cellar techniques. The long maceration on the skins gives intense colour and considerable quantities of extracted glycerine, obtaining overall an extremely interesting wine which is ready to drink after over eight months’ ageing in wood.

Food Pairing: Barbecued or roasted red meat, game, stews.

Serving Suggestion: 18-20°C. Uncork at least two hours before serving.

About The Winery:

The residence situated next to the winery has ancient, definitely Medieval origins.

The original tower was a guardpost for the nearby castle.

Writings from the period record that the family of Firidolfi da Panzano, feudal lords of the castle in the village of the same name, gave the land and house which today form La Marcellina farm to a certain Marcello, who had rid them of a troublesome enemy.

The destitute marcello now found himself the proprietor of a house and land, and named the property “Marcello”.

A subsequent transcription error transformed this into “Marcellina”, and later “La Marcellina”. The namen it retains to this day.

History of the Vineyards:

La Marcellina winery is an ancient Chianti-style building dating back to the Middle Ages, when its tower was used in wars by the nearby castle of Panzano.

When its military service was over, it became a rural home, and its structure was gradually extended and tarnsformed into the present day buildings.

13 of 20 hectares of farmlands are specialised vineyards, the birthplace of truly unique Chianti Classico D.O.C.G. wines.

Olive groves cover the remaining land for the production of a really stylish Extra Virgin Olive Oil, enjoyed around the world.

1000 years in Chianti

Along the gentle crest of the Panzano hill, immersed in the Chianti vineyards, La Marcellina farm has passionately cultivated vines and olives for years, in accordance with ancient traditions.

The farm suddenly appears at the end of a steep stony track, and two buildings can be seen at its centre: the cellar, built in recent times to satisfy the farm production requirements, and the house, whose origins date back to ancient – certainly Medieval – history. The original building with its little tower was a guardpost for the nearby castle. Writings from the period record that the family of Firidolfi da Panzano, feudal lords of the castle in the village of the same name, gave the land and house which today form La Marcellina farm to a certain Marcello, in recognition of services rendered to the Firidolfi. To register his acquired property, Marcello named it Marcellino: a subsequent transcription error transformed this into Marcellina, and the name has remained to this day.

When tourists and visitors arrive at La Marcellina to buy the products, they are met by a young family, husband, wife and three children, with the cheerful friendly faces typical of those who live in the Chianti area.
Sig. Fabio Castellacci and his wife Lianna tell us something of their story and the story of the business they run: the family from Panzano has owned the land for several decades. Sig. Fabio’s parents and brother have run another crafts-commercial business for many years and the family’s history is rather interesting. In the year 930, in Modena, an important family called the “AMICI” was experiencing a period of inexplicable historical decline and the various branches of the family left the city and spread throughout Europe, but with one particular feature: from that moment on they were no longer called “AMICI” but “CASTELLACCI”. Those who crossed the Appennines towards Tuscany, and on throughout the peninsula left a few representatives in Chianti, who settled first in Monteriggioni, near Siena, then in Panzano where they began to cultivate vines and olives. And after more than a thousand years in Chianti, Mr Fabio is their direct descendent, still managing the land and cellar alongside an oenologist and an agronomist, while Signora Lianna runs the farm.

Lianna Checchi, originally from Mugello, is a trained art teacher. Having tested her ability in a studio in Florence producing decorative glassware and mosaics, she decided to follow her husband into a “man’s” job. After a few years in Panzano their three heirs were born, Giovanni, Ginevra and Giacomo, and the whole family is now devoted to the quality of the farm products.

As well as Chianti Classico wines, the Extravirgin olive oil made from olives hand-picked in the traditional way, ground with stone and cold-pressed, is a feather in the company’s cap.

The Castellaccis are especially proud of the family traditions behind the decades of production: “working the vines and olives is an art and a long-established passion”, explains Sig. Fabio. And the genuine nature of the products originates from this love of the land, among the vineyards of a unique landscape, where time still follows nature’s slow rhythms. The traditional values, like a hereditary characteristic, have been handed down to the three children who, despite their tender ages, are highly interested in their family business, to the extent that they have involved their school in artistic and cultural activities linked to the countryside.

Technical Analysis:

Varietals: 100% Sangiovese

Alcohol: 13.0% vol.

TA: 5g/l

Net Dry Extract: 34.8 g/l