Podere Poggio Scalette

Cantina e Vini

PODERE POGGIO SCALETTE became an autonomous wine-producing estate in 1991 when Vittorio Fiore and his wife Adriana Assjè di Marcorà acquired several plots of land and a rural building on the hill of Ruffoli, in the township of Greve in Chianti, in the very heart of the Chianti Classico appellation. The property came from the division of an heritage and the sale of proprety consisting of old stone farmhouses, vineyard land, olive groves, pasture land, and woods which had been abandoned years previously after the death of the former owner.

On these terraces and on an ample plot of vineyards, called by the local peasantry “IL CARBONAIONE”, are planted the Sangiovese vines which – as has been discovered - were the first to be planted in the decade following First World War (1914-1918), after the destruction of the largest part of Europe’s vineyards by the phylloxera plague which struck in the late 19th century. We are dealing, therefore, with vines that have reached the venerable age of more than 80 years and which constitute, without the slightest doubt, one of the rarest (if not the sole) example of a Tuscan vineyard with this age, prevalently composed of an important member of the large Sangiovese family known by the name of “Sangiovese di Lamole” and born in the territory of the Chianti Classico appellation. This first nucleus, five hectares (12.5 acres) in size, was joined by a second one in 1996, other Sangiovese vineyards planted during the 1960’s and 1970’s and, again, five hectares in size. New vineyards began to be planted in the new millennium to bring the overall surface under vine – in 2007 – to an area of approximately 15 hectares (37 acres). Of this vineyard surface a bit more than a hectare is registered as “Alta Valle della Greve” IGT, with a small portion of white Chardonnay grapes, while the rest is carried on the official Chianti Classico appellation (DOCG) rolls.