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NATURAL WINES BY FATTORIA DI SAMMONTANA
Fattoria di Sammontana sits in Montelupo Fiorentino, on the hills behind the Arno valley about 20 km west of Florence. The estate goes back to the 12th century and once belonged to the Medici. A Polish nobleman, Michele Dzieduszycki, bought it in the 19th century, and his family still runs it four generations on, today with Daniele, Andrea and Lorenzo Dzieduszycki. Vines and some 3,000 olive trees grow between 70 and 150 metres, on stony alluvial soils full of gravel and pebbles, farmed holistically.
Reds ferment with wild yeasts in glazed cement tanks, whites in steel, and the wines mature in steel, concrete, old barrels or terracotta amphorae. Sulphur has been cut back year after year. Start with the Alberese, Sangiovese with a splash of Trebbiano, made to drink lightly chilled, then the Chianti Superiore 'San Firenze', and the Stamattane, a whole-bunch Syrah.
