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DOMAINE BALLORIN
Producer
San Donatino
Italy, Tuscany
Castellina in Chianti, Siena
Castellina in Chianti, Siena
25000 bottles in the cellar
Specialities: Red wine
The history of San Donatino began in 1971 when Leo Ferrè, a well-known French poet and singer, bought with his wife Maria Cristina Diaz the estate located in one of the most vocated areas of Chianti Classico in Castellina in Chianti in the Elsa valley at 420 meters above sea level.
Right from the start, the Ferrés set about restoring and making productive the vineyards and the approximately 5,000 olive trees. The first vintages were sold in bulk until the early 1990s when the decision was made to bottle and begin marketing on their own.
From Gambelli through Staderini to Giovanni Stella, important names have worked in the winery, united by a very precise production philosophy: traditional winemaking where the sign of the territory and the difference of the vintages have absolute prevalence over any form of standardization of the wines. Fermentations take place spontaneously without the use of inoculated yeasts, macerations are prolonged and the wines remain “sur lie” for several months. The base wines are aged only in steel while the crus age in wood.
A mosaic of vines and soils
There are three vineyard areas on the estate, which have always been vinified separately to create wines with distinctive characteristics, true mirrors of the terroir. All the vineyards are located in the middle belt of the hillside at an average altitude of 450 meters above sea level.
San Donatino is the area close to the winery with vineyards facing south, more clayey soils that give mature wines with a complex and deep soul.
Poggio ai Mori is a particular terroir with vines on both slopes of the hill and consequent variable exposure from southeast to northwest. The soils are very old and predominantly marly, particularly suited to the cultivation of Sangiovese. From these plots come Chianti Classico and Riserva.
Campolungo is located in San Donato in Poggio about 12 km from the winery, we are in the westernmost part of Chianti Classico, characterized by soils of limestone matrix with Alberese a typical rock of these areas. Here temperatures are cooler and particularly suitable for the production of light reds, whites and the estate rosé.
