“Le Chiuse” has very ancient origins.It was in fact part
of the Biondi Santi family properties and was brought as a dowry
by Maria Tamanti when she married Clemente Santi in the lasts 1700s.
Their daughter Caterina married Jacopo Biondi and their son Ferruccio
(Simonetta Valiani’s grandfather) joined the names in Biondi
Santi.
Ferruccio was in war with Garibaldi and after that he continued
his grandfather work enhancing the value and selecting the vines
to obtain this particular clone of Sangiovese (Grosso) called Brunello. |
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At the origin Le Chiuse used to produce wine, wheat and oil. Tancredi
(Ferruccio’s son) bequeathed “Le Chiuse” and two
others proprieties to her daughter Fiorella (Simonetta’s mother)
when she got married exhorting her never to sell “Le Chiuse”
because there the best Brunello for the reserves grew.
Fiorella rented hers lands to his Brother Franco Biondi Santi the
actual owner of “Greppo” who has been cultivating and
making wine with the grapes since the 1990s.
Fiorella died in the 1986 and her daughter Simonetta Valiani who
inherited from her grandfather love for the lands and passion for
making wine, started to produce her own wine “Brunello Le Chiuse”.
It was a hard-work: together with her husband Nicolò Magnelli
and her son Lorenzo she restored the farm-buildings, the chapel,
built a new underground-cellar and planted new vineyards.
To maintain the wine typicalness the new vineyards are implanted
with wild feet all grafted one by one with the buds taken from the
old vine stumps (60/70 years old). These mother-vines in fact had
been selected by his grandfather Tancredi. |
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