Our Vineyard
La Festeggiata has two hectares of vines. Our vins are situated in three separate vineyards around the villa.
We mainly have sangiovese grapes along with some merlot and cabernet sauvignon.
Our top field at 550m is steep, turning South west, therefore we have the cool mornings with shadows and sunny afternoons. At the bottom of this field we harvest Sangiovese grapes for our Spumante – the grapes are harvested early to keep acidity and freshness in the grapes - normally we harvest mid-September.
At La Festeggiata every grape is handpicked. Harvesting by hand makes it possible to do selections in the fields. We can leave the unripe and unhealthy grapes and only pick the best!
Later – start October – we harvest for the red wines. We go thought the fields several times picking only the best grape bunches for our top wines and at last pick the healthy bunches for our Chianti Classico DOCG wine. We harvest several days as our grapes matures differently on the different fields, the altitude on our top field delays the harvest a few days.
Every year is different therefore we carefully follow the vines and grapes during the season to obtain the best quality possible for our wines each vintage.