CANTINE BARONCINI

In 1500, or thereabouts, if someone had told Messer Antonio di Bastiano that, one day, descendents of his descendents would have created and catalogued an excellent Caucasian wine alongside famous Etruscan nectars, he simply wouldn’t have believed it. Nor would he have understood. Yet a dynamic conception of the landed estate in San Gimignano had already identified in the family harmony the key to change in the harmonious production development model. Messer Antonio was aware of this and married off his daughter Apollonia to a man who possessed both a noble title and vineyards! Centuries later, Jaures Baroncini was equally aware of this, and in the 1960’s he decided to create Cantine Baroncini: a top quality winemaking and commercial venture, destined to climb the ladder of success, thanks to the complicity of these peaceful lands and their civil nature; thanks to a farsighted strategy of gradual purchases; thanks mainly to the active involvement of his wife Ilva and his children Bruna and Stefano. Ilva, Bruna and Stefano now run the business -which is capable of placing over two million bottles a year on the tables of connoisseurs all over the world-, and have taken up the challenge, aided by their staff, of a decidedly unexpected expansion: departing this time for Kvareli in Georgia, where the slopes of the Caucasian mountains, by some sort of miracle, are incredibly similar to the fertile hills of San Gimignano, so dear to Messer Antonio.

Chianti, Italy

Loc. CASALE, 43,

0577 940600