La Palazzetta di Luca e Flavio Fanti

Owned by the Fanti Family for generations, with the arrival of Flavio Fanti La Palazzetta has focused its attention on the vineyard. Thus, the vineyard has become a philosophy of life as well as a proper job: daily commitment, tradition and future goal. La Palazzetta vineyards are located in Montalcino and give life to fine wines such as Brunello di Montalcino and Rosso di Montalcino. Therefore, being a winemaker here means combining poetry and realism, effort, responsibility, will. Nowadays La Palazzetta Estate is run by Favio, his life Carla, and their daughter and son, Tea and Luca.

La Palazzetta is located in Castelnuovo dell’Abate, south-east of Montalcino and stretches out on over 20 hectares of vineyards and 3 000 olive trees, all organically farmed nearby the historical Sant’Antimo Abbey. It was Charlemagne who wanted to build the Abbey after his troop, struck by the plague on the return way to France, managed to recover thanks to the healing herbs that grow in the Starcia Valley, where now as back in those times, there is a vineyard, owned nowadays by La Palazzetta and called La Starcia. According to the legend, the first rows were destined for feeding pilgrims. From this same vineyard the estate will soon produce its first cru wine.