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    91 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    118
  • Region Ranking?

    40
  • Popularity ranking?

    175

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Castello Banfi Brunello Harvest Optimal, Possibly Best Ever

Castello Banfi just completed its Brunello harvest and is already reporting that it appears to be their best Brunello harvest on record. General Manager Enrico Viglierchio reports, “We are experiencing in the first wines fermented incredible concentration, an explosion of fruit and marvelous balance. This vintage will make a lot of very happy Brunello drinkers!”

Beyond Brunello,...

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History

Banfi was founded in 1978 thanks to the will of the Italian-American brothers, John and Harry Mariani. From the beginning, the goal of the two brothers was to create a state-of-the-art winery combined with the most advanced science in the vineyards for the production of premium wines. Together with the Mariani family, Ezio Rivella, one of Italy's foremost enologists, who understood that due to the richness of the soils and the privileged micro...

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Vineyards

The Castello Banfi estate extends to the south of Montalcino, to the borders of the Val d’Orcia. Of the 7,100 acres of land, about one third is under vine in a constellation of single vineyards, the remainder occupied by olive groves, fruit trees (mainly plums), woods and scrub. As a project dedicated to highlight the prized denominations oflower Piedmont, Banfi Piedmont represents the perfect unionbetween the centuries-old sparkling wine trad...

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Winemaking

Designed to protect the integrity and richness of the grape, the winery employs state of the art technology, the result of revolutionary technical research and innovation. And in this same philosophy, based on continual research, that a number of projects came to be on our estate, including the clonal study of Sangiovese, research on the composition and aging of wood for barrels – the great protagonist of aging wine – and the completion of our...

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Inside information

“We are selling not just wine, but a way of life. It’s about something slower, calmer, more in touch with family.” — Cristina Mariani-May Cristina Mariani-May is the CEO and president of Banfi, a global wine brand that includes the internationally renowned Castello Banfi vineyard estate in Montalcino, Tuscany; leading US importer Banfi Vintners; and US Northwest wine specialist Pacific Rim & Company. The youngest daughter of Banfi Chairman Eme...

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