Villa Calcinaia: Greve Chianti Classico, Tasting, 17 November
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Tutored Tastings
Treat yourself, your family or a client to one of our exclusive tutored tastings. One of our experts will guide you through a range of wines or spirits while educating you on the evening’s topic. From style and regional focusses to cheese and wine pairings, these are unmissable chances to broaden your wine and spirits knowledge.
Held in the Pickering Cellar, the space is perfectly suited to convivial wine tastings.
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Description
The traditional Chianti Classico property of Villa Calcinaia in Greve-in-Chianti has been owned by the Capponi family since 1524. Conte Sebastiano Capponi is the 37th generation and significantly, the first generation of the family to manage the 200 ha estate in person; his ancestors employing agents during the feudal mezzadria (share-cropping) system that characterised Tuscany (and Italy in general) until the 1970s and 80s.
Since Sebastiano took over the reins in 1992 – having graduated from Florence University with a degree in Political Science – there has been an appreciable rise in the quality of the wines. This quality can be largely attributed to the employment in 1996 of Dr Federico Staderini as enologo (winemaker), and Conte Capponi’s switch to organic viticulture.
N.B. Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd stocks and the producers’s library & historic stocks and may not be available to order following the event.
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