2018 is the year of change; great novelties at Fattoria Montecchio are on their way. The first, in chronological order, was introduced at the presentation of Chianti Classico Collection at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence and at the ProWein Fair, Dusseldorf.…
The situation explained by our oenologist, Stefano Di Blasi 2017 was a year characterised by higher than average temperatures. This information comes from the bank National Climatic Data Centre, that has been recording world temperatures since 1880. In the month…
The Fattoria Montecchio is offering a series of three dinner / conferences about the eating habits of the Etruscans. Following the great success of the conference of the same title as the book “From terra(cotta) to wine” (to buy it…
As usual the race was run by many participants and onlookers who enjoyed this 2017 edition. It was 500 kilometres long and was held on two days between San Donato in Poggio (Tavarnelle Val di Pesa) and Pietrasanta, near the…
The participants who took part in the conference of ´From terra(cotta) to Wine´, proposed and organised by the Fattoria Montecchio, were all qualified enthusiasts. In the elegant tasting room of the Fattoria, authoritative speakers spoke about the ever more popular…
The Fattoria Montecchio´s Extra Virgin Olive Oil D.O.P. had a huge success at the 2017 edition of Vinitaly. The precious “green gold” is the result of a careful selection of olives in the Chianti Classico area, – types like frantoio,…
The Fattoria Montecchio is participating in the VINITALY International Fair this year, as we usually do. The fair is in its fifty-first edition and it shows wines and distilled products, it will be from 9th to 12th April in Verona.…
Last July, on the 28th, in the Enoteca Italiana, Bastione San Filippo in the Medici Fortress, Siena, the final presentation of the six wine marketing projects done by the students of Oregon University were held. This was part of the…
The Fattoria Montecchio a participates in an important project promoted by the University of Oregon. It is the ´Global Education Oregon 2016´, and will bring 43 university students to the farm. Here a focus on the project. They will arrive…
One of the most important things of May 2016, for San Donato and its environs, was the ninth stage, timed, of the Giro d´Italia cycling race passing through the area. It went through the Chianti area and was called the…