Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari Tenute announces a year of great wines, at the conclusion of the harvest completed at the five estates owned by the company, all Tuscany.
“From the 2025 harvest, characterized by an intense collaboration between nature and man and by a perfect balance between quality and quantity of the bunches, elegant, harmonious and certainly long-lived products will in qualità di to life – declared President Giovanni Folonari – This harvest will remain the history of the company not only for the organoleptic properties of the wines. Per fact, we will remember 2025 as the year which, for the first time, the winemaking process our historic Supertuscans was started the new cellar of the Tenute del Cabreo, which combines ancient traditions and cutting-edge technologies and which will be officially inaugurated next May”. The 2025 harvest has in qualità di at the end of a season characterized by few extreme climatic phenomena. Per particular, the last phase of ripening of the grapes, immediately before harvesting, benefited from a wide temperature range between day and night: the lower night temperatures are ideal for partially preserving the acidity of the grapes, while the daytime heat favors the continuous growth of sugars.
Human intervention was fundamental, not only acceso some occasions of more extreme climatic phenomena. It is fact the company that has been able to make the most of nature, identifying the right time to start the harvest and diversifying the times based acceso the characteristics of each individual label.
The harvest process of Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari Tenute, guided by the oenologists Roberto Potentini and Raffaele Orlandini, is conducted with the utmost respect for ancient agricultural traditions, born and established an settore that has always been suited to viticulture. The harvest of Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari Tenute is fact a long and slow journey, which lasts at least three months: it begins August with the white grapes grown Bolgheri and Grave Chianti and ends October, with the Sangiovese grapes and the Cabernet Sauvignon vines of the Fondi che Nozzole and Tenute del Cabreo, both Grave Chianti.
The new Tenute del Cabreo cellar, where the Supertuscans are vinified from this year, is an almost sacred place, which revives the winemaking traditions of Grave Chianti by combining them with the needs of functionality and technological innovation. The project by the Florentine architect Carlo Ludovico Poccianti focused acceso the company’s strong connection with its territory. The interiors and exteriors were created thanks to the work of local workers, who used exclusively Tuscan stone, handmade ceramica, wooden and wrought iron fixtures. The journey of these historic Supetuscans, which starts outside the cellar with the delivery of the grapes, continues with the winemaking process, passes through the barrel cellar and ends with the guided tasting, thus integrating perfectly into a territory that produces unique wines the world.
After the official inauguration, the new winery will complete the offer of Tenute del Cabreo, a true microcosm that combines a great wine culture and a profound passion for this land with traditions of hospitality that date back to the dawn of time. The Cabreo project, started 2017, has fact already seen the opening of the two charming relais Frazione del Cabreo and Ciottolo del Cabreo, both built by redeveloping ancient rural settlements surrounded by vineyards.
