Brunello di Montalcino

At first there was the Brunello di Montalcino. I found in the best restaurants the Brunello di Montalcino Mastrojanni and consumed often. In 1983 I came to Montalcino for the first time and I bought the Brunello di Montalcino wine in different place. In 1987 I visited Sandro Chia: he also producer of Brunello di Montalcino. And I met Carlo Vittori made into wine, Brunello di Montalcino by Sandro. So I'm in love with Charles Montalcino and began to look for me on a farm with the rights of Brunello di Montalcino to make me as producer of Brunello di Montalcino. It took ten years because we found Podere Le Ripi, 54 hectares of land with only one recorded in the Brunello di Montalcino. Wolf & Sirens was born in 2003, my first Brunello di Montalcino produced at Podere Le Ripi. And in 2008, confining Podere Le Ripi with Mastrojanni, after a long friendship with Andrea Machetti, former producer of Brunello di Montalcino and responsible Mastrojanni, we purchased with the Illy Group SpA (the holding company of us brothers Illy) the Mastrojanni which is now one of the best known brands of Brunello di Montalcino.

Brunello di Montalcino

Today, the Brunello di Montalcino Back of Donkey Mastrojanni often gets 94 points WAS and Parker and Brunello di Montalcino Wolves & Sirens Podere Le Ripi obtained with 2004 Weinwisser of 19,5 / 20, an exceptional result for an exceptional wine as Brunello di Montalcino. This ten-year adventure in Montalcino and in particular with the Brunello di Montalcino was the most beautiful of my life and continues: we are building a new cellar for Brunello di Montalcino, Podere Le Ripi that would become the cathedral of wine, with lots of pulpit to preach to Brunello di Montalcino and refined in our oak barrels. But we are also pursuing the project of Bonsai wine or the vineyard Brunello di Montalcino densest in the world. With 62,500 plants per hectare this Brunello di Montalcino comes from vines with deep roots that produce more than 2 meters per plant on average, a cluster: a new innovation in the world of fine wine that was born right here at Podere Le Ripi, in the town of Montalcino under the specification of Brunello di Montalcino. Today, the Brunello di Montalcino wine, Podere Le Ripi is a very rare because they produce very little and with the concept Bonsai wine become, I hope, the Brunello di Montalcino's most wanted in the world. Francesco Illy Winemaker in Montalcino Producer of Brunello di Montalcino At Podere Le Ripi, Montalcino
 
 
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Francesco Illy, vignaiolo
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Phone +39 0577 835 641
Cell +39 347 258 2749

Podere le Ripi srl
53024 Montalcino, Italy,
P. IVA 00974960528

 

gps 43.00.000  N.11 : 32.700E

 

 

 

How to reach Podere Le Ripi from Genova

Highway direction Livorno,
through till highway end in Rosignano.
Continue south direction Grosseto, Roma.
Reaching Grosseto pay attention to signes direction Siena, Firenze and take that exit.
Follow direction Siena and exit in Paganico.
Follow direction Monte Amiata, Arcidosso, Montalcino, Castel del Piano
Through Paganico and after next villane (Borgo Santa Rita) pay attention for signes to Montalcino, Sant’Angelo on your left.
Through Sant’Angelo Scalo and
after few km you’ll have Sant’Angelo on your right
in the middle of a sharp left curve:
continue toward Montalcino,
make a right curve and on the next left curve keep right and
enter natural road direction Sesta, Castelnuovo dell’Abate.
Go straight for 5 km until you enter Castelnuovo dell’Abate and
go just straight as if you would enter the restaurant door you see in front (Restaurant Bassomondo).
The road curves left in front of the restaurant:
continue (signals Mastrojanni, San Filippo etc.) for 2km
until you see on your right a road discending with signal
Podere Le Ripi: 1 km and you are arrived.

How to reach Podere Le Ripi from Milano/Bologna

Highway direction Firenze/Roma,
through till highway exit in Firenze Impruneta.
Take Highway Firenze Siena Grosseto south direction Siena Grosseto.
Reaching Siena (after ca 50km) pay attention to signes direction Siena Sud and take that exit and follow blue signs Roma (Cassia road).
Follow direction Buonconvento and after Buonconvento (1km after railroad passage) turn right to Montalcino.
At roundabout in Montalcino take 4th exit (5th you would go back) direction Castelnuovo dell’Abate, Monte Amiata, Abbazia Sant’Antimo.
Continue for ca. 10 km until and you enter Castelnuovo dell’Abate
Turn left as if you would enter the restaurant door you see in front (Restaurant Bassomondo).
The road curves left in front of the restaurant and becomes a dirt road:
continue (signals Mastrojanni, San Filippo etc.) for 2km
until you see on your right a road discending with signal
Podere Le Ripi: 1 km and you are arrived.

How to reach Podere Le Ripi from Roma

Highway direction Firenze/Bologna/Milano,
through till highway exit in Chiusi.
Take direction Chianciano Terme.
Follow sign on left and immediateliy right after about 5 km direction San Quirico, Castioglione d’Orcia, Siena, Pienza
Follow through La Foce and continue through Gallina folowing sings Castiglione d’Orcia and go through the villane of Castiglione.
Continue in direction Montalcino, Castelnuovo dell’Abate, Monte Amiata, Abbazia Sant’Antimo.
After ca. 10 km until and you enter Castelnuovo dell’Abate
Turn right as if you would enter the restaurant door you see in front (Restaurant Bassomondo).
The road curves left in front of the restaurant and becomes a dirt road:
continue (signals Mastrojanni, San Filippo etc.) for 2km
until you see on your right a road discending with signal
Podere Le Ripi: 1 km and you are arrived.

 

 


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