Blog
29 March 2024
Speaking of 2022: an "otherwise warm" year
Discover how the 2022 vintage in Montefioralle has broken Chianti Classico conventions, combining climatic challenges with surprising results in the glass—an intimate and passionate story about a wine that has defied expectations.
2 September 2023
A downy mildew makes for a sad harvest in 2023
Due to a fungus organism that attacked the vines at the beginning of the summer, the 2023 harvest at Montefioralle seems to be the scarcest ever registered in 50 years
14 October 2022
The harvest of 2022
Here is the final report on the 2022 season in our Montefioralle vineyard. The harvest has just ended and these are our notes hot off the press.
13 July 2022
Is it safe to ship wine in the summer?
We have used temperature control devices for our international shipping for a year. Here are the results!
12 March 2022
Tasting of barrel samples for the vintages 2020 and 2019
Lorenzo’s tastings of barrel samples that still need to be bottled.
25 November 2021
How to taste an old vintage
What can you expect from a wine that is a couple of decades old? Manila offers advice on the best way to taste an old vintage red wine.
3 September 2021
Chianti Classico 2019 and Riserva 2018, the winning combination!
Lorenzo presents the Chianti Classico 2019 and the Riserva 2018: two such outstanding vintages in a row does not happen very often.
23 July 2021
The first test of maturation in ceramic vessels for our wine
We matured a Chianti Classico and a Chianti Classico Riserva for 12 months in Clayver ceramic vessels. Thereafter, we organized comparative wine tastings to better try and understand the potential. This is how it went.
14 May 2021
The recipe for Peposo (peppery stew)
Many of you have asked about a dish to pair with the most structured of our red wines such as the Riserva, Gran Selezione, and IGT Monteficalle. Manila will explain how you can make this traditional Tuscan meat dish.
24 March 2021
The advantages of natural cork
Many have asked us why we haven’t switched yet to one the many alternative stoppers available today. We are convinced that cork is still the best choice for our wines. Let us tell you why.
7 November 2020
The main difference between Chianti and Chianti Classico
Chianti and Chianti Classico share the same name but they are two significantly different wines. Let’s take a closer look at why.
29 May 2020
Red wine temperature: how to drink and enjoy it during the summer
Some recommendations from Lorenzo about how to better taste red wines even in very warm weather.
13 May 2020
Our ragù and meatball recipes
Here we give you some of Manila's food recommendations to pair with our red wines at the guided tastings.
5 April 2020
The maturation curve for wine
How does a wine change through aging? How long is the right time to wait before drinking a bottle of wine? Let us discover more about this together with Lorenzo.
14 March 2020
Our Gran Selezione, an “experimental” wine
At Montefioralle, the Gran Selezione was the beginning of a new challenge for our family with the possibility to find space for a new wine, a wine with a strong identity, that would be different from other wines in our selection.
7 November 2019
Wines from Iowa at Montefioralle
How come there are two bottles of wine produced in Iowa, in the US, on the table at Montefioralle? Well, it is a long story that had its beginning a couple of years ago.
8 October 2019
The harvest of 2019
We have reached the end of the harvest of 2019, the 51st for our winery.
4 June 2019
The Legend of the Black Rooster, the Symbol of the Chianti Classico
The Black Rooster is a very important symbol for all the Chianti Classico producers.
17 April 2019
How our Monteficalle IGT was born
In the early 1980s, that Fernando also felt like trying to plant a couple of hundred Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot vines in a new vineyard lot at the Montefioralle estate.
8 March 2019
Tasting the new vintages (2016 -2017)
In order to check the evolution of the wine and to be sure that there are no problems during the maturation period, every now and then we taste samples from all of our barrels.
16 February 2019
The Vin Santo 2015 has been released
We have just finished the filtering and bottling in January and we are now ready to release the Vin Santo 2015.
1 June 2018
Celebrating 50 harvests: our memories
On the occasion of the 50th harvest at Montefioralle, we retraced the historical memories of these years with the Sieni family and their friends via a video reportage.
31 March 2018
Recipe of cookies with raisins
Alessia’s famous recipe of her `cantuccini` with raisins, cookies that pair excellently with our Vin Santo.