Born in Castelnuovo Berardenga, in between Chianti Classico and Colli Senesi, Fèlsina is among the renowned business of the Chianti location, which right away stood apart for the improvement of its primary grape range: Sangiovese. With the start of the summertime season, the business led by Giovanni Poggiali opens its doors for tastings, directed trips and musical occasions, to communicate to lovers all the enthusiasm for its area and to let them taste its items.
On Friday 2 August at 7:30 pm Fèlsina will host among the musical occasions of the Chigiana Chianti Classico Experience with a viola and piano performance arranged by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena and the Consorzio del Chianti Classico. Later on, for those who want, it will be possible to find the business’s white wines accompanied by a choice of items from the Fèlsina farm and the area.
The tastings will continue throughout the summertime in the cellar, open from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, when it will be possible to go to the business by booking through various directed trips that start from the Bottega & Mescita, the pounding heart of the white wine tourist deal. From here, visitors will have the ability to immerse themselves in the history of Fèlsina and the various elements of its “farm”: from the vineyards to the olive trees, to the breeding of farmyard animals, approximately the woods, now a searching reserve. For those who desire a more daring experience, it is possible to reserve a trip of the vineyards aboard a jeep, where it is not unusual to come throughout wild animals such as roe deer, swines and pheasants.
The schedule ends with the go back to the business and a walk in the suggestive historic cellar and in the barrel space, where the most valued white wines of the business rest before bottling, and with a check out to the Enoteca, where the tasting of the white wines and the valued additional virgin olive oil is prepared.
For additional details and bookings, go to the site www.felsina.it or call 0577 355117.
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The Fèlsina winery was established in 1966 in Castelnuovo Berardenga by Domenico and his boy Giuseppe Poggiali. Both were right away familiar with the fantastic wine making occupation of this border area, in between the hills of Chianti Classico and those of the Colli Senesi, where Sangiovese discovers fantastic expression. With the entry into the business of Giuseppe Mazzocolin and the wine maker Franco Bernabei, the profile that the business still preserves today which has actually been effectively continued considering that the 1990s by Giovanni Poggiali, 3rd generation of wine makers and now at the helm of Fèlsina, was even much better specified: a continuous look for credibility in the vineyard and in the cellar, in between nature and method, in 500 hectares of land, of which 72 are committed to natural vineyards.
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