San Polino

The history of this small family farm goes back at least 1000 years, but the first written account of a vineyard here came as part of a registry in 1581. Then, it was part of a hospital, Santa Maria Della Croce: “The farmstead of San Polino, with its house, its worked fields and woodlands, has a vineyard, and there are, on this farmstead, six olive trees…” And those six olive trees are still producing olives!

The estate today has been owned by Luigi Fabbro and Katia Nussbaum since 1991, when they bought a house with five hectares of land, including 1.5 hectares of olive trees, in Montalcino (Tuscany). They renovated the estate for seven years, planting 2.5 hectares of Sangiovese. Their first vintage came in 2001, and they have been a soaring success story ever since. The key to their success may well be their obsessive attention to maintaining a st...