Col d'Orcia winery
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The Col d'Orcia winery is one of the constants in a region that has developed with great dynamism in recent years. When the Marone Cinzano family came to Montalcino in 1973 to acquire Col d'Orcia, Montalcino was still virtually unknown.
The estate is named after a hill that towers over the River Orcia. The Val d'Orcia in the south of the province of Siena already characterised Renaissance landscape painting. At that time, there were only a dozen or so wineries. Brunello di Montalcino had been declared a DOC in 1966 and the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino was founded a year later. Accordingly, it caused quite a stir when the famous Turin-based entrepreneurial family acquired 530 hectares of land there - with 140 hectares of organically cultivated vineyards today. From the very beginning, they pursued a clear quality standard. In addition to Brunello, Count Alberto Marone Cinzano discovered the "Vino Rosso dai Vigneti di Brunello" produced in large containers. He saw this as the ideal everyday wine, and from 1976 he switched more than half of the production to Rosso, which was awarded DOC status as "Rosso di Montalcino" in 1983. To this day, the Col d'Orcia produces some of the best and most sought-after Rossi in the region.
At the same time, the estate established itself as a classic Brunello producer. Ageing in large vats was established early on - long before the debate between traditionalists and modernists. At the same time, the estate is at the cutting edge of technology. In addition to Brunello and Riserva, the estate also produces wines such as "Vigna Banditella", which is aged in smaller French barrels, and the single-varietal Cabernet Sauvignon "Olmaia". However, the estate's most famous wine is without question the single-vineyard Brunello "Poggio al Vento", a vineyard that the family had planted with old Sangiovese clones back in 1974.
in 2010, Francesco Marone Cinzano initiated organic certification. Today, Col d'Orcia is one of the largest organically farmed estates in Tuscany with vineyards, olive groves, fields and forests.
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