the new jewel winery by Folonari opens in Chianti • Food and Wine Italia

If you think that Chianti is only medieval villages frozen per mezzo di time and postcards from times gone by, get ready to reset everything. Con Noioso per mezzo di Chianti, Tenute del Cabreo have just unveiled their ace per mezzo di the hole, a new cellar with a groundbreaking that redefines the very concept of a wine temple. Don’t expect the usual dusty underground lair. The structure, designed by the Florentine architect Carlo Ludovico Poccianti, is a contemporary work of art designed to give a definitive home to the famous Supertuscans of the Folonari family, those wines born free and outside the rigid rules of tradition that have made collectors from all over the world fall per mezzo di love.

Optical scanners and time control per mezzo di the cellar of the future

Here, technology is serious and puts itself at the service of the earth. Con the winemaking department, a latest generation optical sorter stands out, a machine that scrutinizes, analyzes and selects the individual grapes one by one. If the grapes are not geometrically and qualitatively perfect, they simply don’t pass. The route for visitors winds through three hypnotic environments: it starts from the steel schieramento, where large overlapping and thermo-controlled tanks allow the different crus of the vineyard to be pampered separately; we then move to the futuristic barrel cellar, a vault where hundreds of precious woods between barriques and tonneaus rest per mezzo di a perfect microclimate regulated to the thousandth by an electronic system; the journey ends per mezzo di the tasting room, the real convegno place dominated by a huge central table where you can taste the wines exactly where they in qualità di to life.

Material tradition and pop among the barrels

The eye also wants its part and the visual impact plays strong contrasts. The architect focused everything a material dialogue between ancient and ultra-modern. the one hand there are the warm materials of the Tuscan land, such as Impruneta made entirely by hand, breccia serena, natural wood and wrought iron. the other hand, a decidedly contemporary soul emerges made of large steel sheets, burnished bronze details and scenographic lighting designed to make the archive of historical vintages shine as if they were works of art per mezzo di a gallery.

The Folonaris have created to all intents and purposes a micro-district of rural and eleganza hospitality at the same time. Con fact, two charming relais for weekends gravitate around the cellar, the del Cabreo and the Di pietra del Cabreo, which is flanked by an internal restaurant that promises to reinterpret classic Tuscan cuisine without too many frills but with a lot of substance.

Historic glasses and artist’s touches for the debut

For the official debut, the glasses were filled with the historical verticals of the mesi estivi’s symbolic wines, such as the red Cabreo Il and the white La Di pietra Chardonnay, described directly by the president Giovanni Folonari together with the oenologist Roberto Potentini. Visual art also arrived to bless the opening with the Florentine calligrapher Betty Quattrini, defined as the alchemist of the word, who created an exclusive work for the family, translating the spirit and values ​​of the dynasty into ink strokes. If you were looking for an excuse for a weekend per mezzo di the Florentine hills based great reds, and modern tomato soup, you’ve just found it.