Giacomo Mori

Giacomo Mori

Toscana

Palazzone

Unlike many Italian estates that have gone from selling grapes or wine to co-ops or merchants to bottling under their label, the decision made by Giacomo Mori’s grandsons to launch their own label was a return to the estate’s roots. Prior to the economic hardship felt between the two World Wars, Giacomo bottled Chianti under his own name for a good thirty years. His son Giovanni carried on with the family wine business, but the market had changed, and though wine has consistently been made in the Mori cellars, the market was a bulk one, and the eponymous label lay dormant.

In 1995, Giacomo’s grandsons resuscitated the family holdings by carefully replanting the vineyards...READ MORE

Giacomo Mori

Toscana

Palazzone

Unlike many Italian estates that have gone from selling grapes or wine to co-ops or merchants to bottling under their label, the decision made by Giacomo Mori’s grandsons to launch their own label was a return to the estate’s roots. Prior to the economic hardship felt between the two World Wars, Giacomo bottled Chianti under his own name for a good thirty years. His son Giovanni carried on with the family wine business, but the market had changed, and though wine has consistently been made in the Mori cellars, the market was a bulk one, and the eponymous label lay dormant.

In 1995, Giacomo’s grandsons resuscitated the family holdings by carefully replanting the vineyards with rigorously selected clones of Sangiovese, Colorino and Canaiolo. The vines are planted at a relatively high density and the viticulture only employs organic principles. Winemaking is traditional, though a variety of essentially neutral oak barrels (including barriques) are used to build complexity. The old cellars have been renovated to enhance and simplify the winemaking approach; stainless steel is used for fermentation, and the wine is moved entirely by gravity. The Chiantis of Giacomo Mori (the current custodian is also Giacomo) are wines of intensity and purity, but they are also effortlessly evocative of the land and its history. 

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