Wineries

From day one, Brancaia produces high quality wines, which tell the story of the territory in which they are born: the satisfaction in the company is great for the achieved results, but the team is always aware of how vital it is to continue investing in development and research....

In 1938 the Cosulich Family acquired land in Collalbrigo as a vacation estate. In 1967, Alberto Cosulich enlarged the property and built the cellar, launching a business in winemaking. Now, Alberto’s grandson Federico, together with his father Francesco and Prosit Group, manage the Cellar and represent the fourth generation of winemakers in the family. We sat down with Federico to learn more about this historical Tenuta....

Just jocking, we are not playing Bingo! It is only the list of anniversaries that Brancaia will be celebrating this year. In fact, 2021 is a year of important milestones for Brancaia, both as a company and on a personal level, for the Widmer family....

My ancestors were Bulgarian wool merchants who, to escape the advance of the Saracen invasion, took refuge in Italy in the town of Miglianico, in the province of Chieti around 1560. During XVIII century they became landowners. In this period the Ciavolichs provided horses to General Gioacchino Murat’s army, marshal of Napoleone Bonaparte’s Empire. In 1853 Francesco Ciavolich built in Miglianico, opposite his private residence, the first winery, nowadays one of the most ancient and suggestive in Abruzzo, where to work independently grapes that came from the surrounding lands. At the end of XIX century an important marriage marked the future path of the winery on Loreto Aprutino’s side: the one between Giuseppe Ciavolich and the noblewoman Ernestina Vicini from Loreto Aprutino....

It was the summer of 1993 and I was an architecture student in Zurich, but I could no longer find the right motivations in what I was doing. A few weeks immersed in the nature of Brancaia, my parents’ estate in Chianti, were enough to make me find my way. I returned to Switzerland with the idea of dedicating myself to wine and, to test my decision, even before enrolling in oenology school, I spent a year at the Domaine des Balisiers in Peney (Geneva), which, with its 30 hectares of vineyards, was at the time the largest organic Swiss winery. It was truly an experience of great impact for me ...

Capannelle is located in Tuscany, in the heart of Chianti Classico, in the municipality of Gaiole in Chianti at an altitude of 430 meters above the sea level. The company covers about 35 hectares of which 16 with vineyards and produces about 80 thousands bottles per year. It was founded in 1974 thanks to the innovative intuition of the Roman businessman Raffaele Rossetti, since 1997 it has been owned by the English Sherwood family....

A wine, a family, a territory. Valpanera has been a family tradition for generations, in a place that is mostly unknown but that holds a central role in Hi...