LA PALAZZETTA

Owned by the Fanti Family for generations, with the arrival of Flavio Fanti La Palazzetta has focused its attention on the vineyard. Thus, the vineyard has become a philosophy of life as well as a proper job: daily commitment, tradition and future goal. La Palazzetta vineyards are located in Montalcino and give life to fine wines such as Brunello di Montalcino and Rosso di Montalcino. Therefore, being a winemaker here means combining poetry and realism, effort, responsibility, will. Nowadays La Palazzetta Estate is run by Favio, his life Carla, and their daughter and son, Tea and Luca. La Palazzetta is located in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, south-east of Montalcino and stretches out on over 20 hectares of vineyards and 3 000 olive trees, all organically farmed nearby the historical Sant’Antimo Abbey. Why sustainable farming? Our main duty is to pass on to follow generation the great richness we have received, preserving the natural environment as much as possible. This is why, in addition to keeping a small wood and its wild life that helps giving our wines a peculiar identity, we have decided to farm organically. Copper and sulfur, along with resistance inducers made of seaweed, help the plant better absorbing substances and better contrasting diseases. The high percentage of limestone we have in our soils contributes in creating acidity and, therefore, ageing potentiality, and combines with the wind constantly blowing on the vineyard which helps developing aromatic richness of grapes. Attention to each single vines or olive tree is a matter of family tradition and culture, something we have deep inside us.