Pomona

Pomona

Toscana

Castellina in Chianti

Monica Raspi has lived in the small hamlet of Pomona in Castellina in Chianti since 1991. A veterinarian by trade, in 2007 she decided to close here clinic and begin farming grapes and making wine. That leap was not such a strange one, given that her family had been producing wine since 1982 but her focus has taken the estate from a simple local concern to one of Chianti Classico’s finest small makers.

The family property had been bought in 1890 by Giovanni Bandino Bandini, Raspi’s great-grandfather, who purchased the preindustrial Riccieri furnace and turned the property into a mixed agriculture farm. In 1982, Raspi’s parents, Enzo and Inge, resurrected two old vineyards and began to make wine on a small scale. ...READ MORE

Pomona

Toscana

Castellina in Chianti

Monica Raspi has lived in the small hamlet of Pomona in Castellina in Chianti since 1991. A veterinarian by trade, in 2007 she decided to close here clinic and begin farming grapes and making wine. That leap was not such a strange one, given that her family had been producing wine since 1982 but her focus has taken the estate from a simple local concern to one of Chianti Classico’s finest small makers.

The family property had been bought in 1890 by Giovanni Bandino Bandini, Raspi’s great-grandfather, who purchased the preindustrial Riccieri furnace and turned the property into a mixed agriculture farm. In 1982, Raspi’s parents, Enzo and Inge, resurrected two old vineyards and began to make wine on a small scale. 

Today, the vineyard consists of 6 hectares, with the farming certified organic since 2012. There are three sites at Pomona, with various vine ages and soils, with Alberese and calcium carbonate at the original Pomona site, limestone and clay at Vigna del Termine, and marl, Alberese and clay at Sant’Ilario.

Raspi’s Chiantis are 100 per cent Sangiovese and are fermented with native yeasts and aged only in large, old Slavonian oak barrels. The wines are pure wines of place, with an emphasis on elegance and fine-boned structure, but not for lack of depth and complexity.

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