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Wines by Conti
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Conti
Costanti
When Cosimo de’ Medici finally
prevailed in 1559 after years of fighting for control of
Siena, an indignant group of nobles preferred to leave their
home than to submit to their new lord: it was this emigration
that brought Conte Scipione Costanti to Montalcino, where
he built a villa in Colle al Matrichese. Generations later
on the same property, Santi and Tito Costanti grew the first
of the local clone of Sangiovese to be vinified as a single-varietal
wine, and Tito presented two bottles of this Brunello –
labeled 1865 and 1869 – at an exhibition of quality
wine from the territories surrounding Siena.
The 20th century saw the first commercial Costanti Brunello
with Conte Emilio, who built on his ancestors’ labor
and study of the land when he began production in the
early 70’s. He and his brother Elvio created a top-flight
wine made from 10 ha of vineyards within the family’s
25 ha estate. In 1982 the time came to pass the precious
operation to younger hands, and the estate lured their
grandson Andrea away from his studies in geology. This
current generation, still living in the ancestral villa,
engrossed himself wholeheartedly in the Costanti estate,
where he enlisted the direction of consultant Vittorio
Fiore. Together, the two present elegant, fragrant Brunello
and Brunello Riserva as well as a Rosso di Montalcino
and Vermiglio. Despite the oak used sparingly for all
but the Brunello normale, they maintain traditional practices
and keep production extremely limited for these stellar
wines.
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