The estate vineyards comprise 14 hectares of high-quality vineyards dedicated to Chianti Colli Aretini DOC. In 2000, the winery launched a vineyard re-structuring programme, adopting the most up-to-date practices, a necessary foundation for producing wines of absolute quality.
Such vineyard management practices, which feature winter pruning, canopy management, and cluster thinning, have made possible a high-quality viticulture with low yields.
This philosophy, in conjunction with a modernised cellar, has yielded a new wine, beginning with the 2001 vintage, OCCHINI IGT, a Tuscan red wine. Occhini represents the perfect union between tradition, exemplified in its fermentation, and innovation, displayed in its barrique maturation. The reception and tributes it received gave it a place among Tuscany’s best red wines and provided the impulse, in the 2004 vintage, to produce our BERNARDINO Chianti DOCG.
For its production, optimally ripe grapes undergo fermentation with ambient yeasts in glass-lined cement vats. The malolactic fermentation occurs in barriques and large oak botti, where the wine matures for some 12 months. The wine is then bottled in the villa’s underground cellars, composed of massive 15th-century walls and vaulted ceilings.