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DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI PRESENTS CANTINE APERTE

MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES AT CASATO PRIME DONNE AND FATTORIA DEL COLLE IN TUSCANY FOR THE 2024 EDITION OF CANTINE APERTE DEDICATED TO GREAT WINES AND DOP TUSCAN BREAD

Donatella Cinelli Colombini celebrates Cantine Aperte on 25-26 May 2024 by offering wine lovers who come to her wineries two different and memorable experiences. Itinerant tastings inside and outside the cellars interspersed with stories, tastings of great Brunello and Orcia Doc wines paired with traditional food.

CANTINE APERTE 2024 AT CASATO PRIME DONNE IN MONTALCINO

Here the DOP Tuscan bread made with regional wheat, sourdough and strictly without salt, is accompanied by very tasty Cinta Senese salami (medieval breed of pigs), aged pecorino cheese, extra virgin olive oil from Moraiolo, vegetables grown by the farmers, “Dante’s soup” made with the ingredients that were there in the year 1300 when the great poet passed through this area on his way to Rome.

10 March 2023

RATINGS REWARD BRUNELLO AND THE DOC ORCIA

Donatella Cinelli Colombini rejoices for the excellent 94/100 and 94/100 ratings for her Brunello 2018 from Canada and for the Cenerentola Doc Orcia 91/100 from Austria

Cenerentola 2018 Doc Orcia FALSTAFF TROPHY

When a wine producer sees his work rewarded by the judgment of great experts and the market, it is always a great joy and Donatella has many of these moments. Here you will find the description of her Brunellos by two super Canadian journalists. They tasted Brunello 2018 as a preview in November at the event organized by the Consortium. The ratings are excellent, 94/100 and 94/100, and the descriptions are wonderful.

Below follows the presentation of the Brunello Riserva 2016 by the LCBO, the very powerful Ontario monopoly based in Toronto.

And finally, the 91 points for Cenerentola Doc Orcia 2018 from Falstaff which, with its 144,000 copies, is the largest German-language food and wine magazine.

94 and 94 ratings for BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO 2018 DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI

MICHAEL GODEL ON BRUNELLO 2018

It is a long-awaited harvest for the cellars on the northern part of Montalcino because after some formidable vintages this one that stands out for its grace . The reality is just exactly that, warmth and exceptional liquidity. Everything works and works wonderfully. A multifaceted expressiveness, perfumes, concentration, integration and if there is wood (and there is some) you do not notice it. Everything plays and works authentically, with kindness and honesty. Clarity is above average. Incredibly fine tannins. To drink from 2024 to 2032

2 March 2023

EASTER IN TUSCANY AT FATTORIA DEL COLLE

7-10^th April 2023 Easter mini break with nature, masterpieces of art, traditions and great wines in Tuscany to regenerate and enrich with new knowledge

Pasqua panina di Pasqua, con uovo benedetto

Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s county inn is different from all the others and offers unique experiences. You’ll wonder what makes it so special. Great red wines with international recognition are born there, it has 430 years of noble history behind it and allows tourists to live inside this history, to eat it, to smell it, to touch it …. All of this with the frame of panoramas that have remained intact over the centuries and of an ORGANIC BIO nature in which to walk among olive groves, vineyards and woods.

For this reason, spending the long Easter weekend at Fattoria del Colle regenerates the body and mind even if perhaps it leads to a few interruptions in the diet and a few more during the tastings of Brunello. But if you are a wine lover, do not miss the opportunity because a tasting of 6 wines from the barrel and of 5-star Brunellos does not happen easily.

THE EASTER 2023 BANK HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Vasca vinoterapia e sala per il massaggio di coppia Fattoria del Colle Toscana

Overnight stay in double room or apartment
Buffet breakfast with homemade cakes and biscuits, cold cuts and cheese, omelette and pinzimoni, hot drinks
Use of parks and hiking trails
Guided tour of the historic rooms of the Fattoria del Colle (16th century kitchen, armorial hall, billiard room, chapel, Italian garden) with tasting of 2 Orcia Doc wines and 3 extra virgin olive oils
Casato Prime Donne winery in Montalcino – guided tour with a wine and music experience, including the barrel ageing cellar and the new fermentation cellar- with an itinerant tasting of 4 wines including Brunello
Guided tour on the theme “Wine, vineyard and video” in the cellars of the Fattoria del Colle including the area for refining the sparkling wine and the room that teaches how to listen to the vineyards. Mini photo -safari and at the end a tasting of Spumante Brut Metodo Classico from Sangiovese grapes.
Cooking lesson about Pici, the typical local handmade pasta

9 February 2023

WINERY TOURS 2023

Tourism in wineries 2023: increasingly technological contacts and increasingly territorial experiences that are starting to be segmented by price and target for winery tours

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The 2023 winery tourism proposals are coming, the result of a rapidly evolving wine tourism scenario.

WINE TOURISM NEWS 2023 TOURISTS AND EXPERIENCES CHANGE

Nothing is like before covid, not even tourists. At least 4 types of visitors arrive in Italian wineries: the classic wine tourists, therefore the true enthusiasts of the nectar of Bacchus, the majority group who seek recreation in unspoilt nature, the high-spending guests, especially from abroad, who ask for exclusive moments and finally the Taliban of “wines without hands”, ultra-famous or with other extreme characteristics.

Another new element is the overtaking of wine experiences: the winery that manages to promote a truly exceptional wine tourism proposal well wins over the prestige of the wine.Indeed it enhances it enormously. For this reason the number, size and spectacularizing of the new tourist wineries is growing enormously with Hollywood effects and often far from the local culture.

However, the small, true and different still wins so, even if it seems a paradox, the “old-fashioned” cellars have more appeal than in the past.

17 March 2022

in Farm experiences

in Characters and places, Forum: News and lifestyle

Exclusive wellness for two in the middle of the vineyards

Private spa for nature and wine lovers. Exclusively for those in love, an entire natural wellness area with massages and wine therapy for couples

Fattoria del Colle – massagges for couples with bio natural body treatment and Vinotherapy

It’s a new trend: a private spa where couples can go alone.

Every couple needs magical moments to build their own love story. Intimate places where you can feel at ease and let yourself go. Places designed for couples and capable of arousing emotions that will create memories.

PRIVATE SPA: NATURAL WELLNESS AREA FOR TWO

Fattoria del Colle massagges for couples and vinotherapy

One of these places is the natural wellness area at Fattoria del Colle, in southern Tuscany, in front of the wonderful panorama of the Crete Senesi and Val d’Orcia. Surrounded by organically grown vineyards and olive groves. The Farm is like a small hamlet with the noble villa and the chapel dating back to 1592, the old farmhouses transformed into rooms and apartments for tourists, a restaurant, 3 swimming pools, cooking school, parks and the cellar for the production of Supertuscan, Chianti Superiore and Orcia Doc wines.

It offers those in love an exclusive wellness experience for couples specifically designed for those who love nature and great wines.

The wellness area is located on the premises in an area formerly used by the farm’s blacksmith. It is small but elegantly equipped with hammam, sauna, emotional showers, foot bath, jacuzzi and relaxation room. It can receive a maximum of 6 people at the same time or be reserved exclusively.

9 February 2022

by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Wedding among the Tuscan vineyards

The informal elegance of the Tuscan countryside for those who dream of a unique wedding enlivened by great wines. At the Fattoria del Colle: history, nature and joy

Getting married in Tuscany, among the Chianti and Orcia DOC organic vineyards, in the “most beautiful wine in the world”. In front of the wonderful landscape of the Crete Senesi and Valdorcia. It looks like a movie, but instead it’s reality.

In a 16th century farm that has remained intact over time, with historic gardens, monumental halls, winery and restaurant. Almost a small rural hamlet where the old farmhouses have been transformed into rooms and apartments for tourists (106 beds) and are furnished with authentic antiques that transmit warmth and intimacy.

WEDDING AMONG THE VINEYARDS FOR THOSE WHO LOVE NATURE, HISTORY AND FINE WINES

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The wedding at Fattoria del Colle is for those who love nature and fine wines. For those who want a romantic and Tuscan-style wedding party. For those who want something elegant and informal at the same time, where everyone is comfortable.

For those who love the taste of typical cuisine but also refined things and then want to dance, go wild or let themselves be lulled by the magic of summer nights in the countryside ….
In the summer of 2022 some midweek dates are still available while the 2023 calendar is almost entirely empty. Obviously the weddings organized from Monday to Thursday have the advantage of a lower cost (10% or more off both the party and overnight stays). Not a bad choice, Donatella Cinelli Colombini got married on Thursday too!

CIVIL, SYMBOLIC OR RELIGIOUS BUT NOT CATHOLIC WEDDINGS

At the Fattoria del Colle civil ceremonies, non-Catholic religious rites and symbolic ceremonies are possible.

24 June 2021

in Vines and wines

Cenerentola wine underground cellar

Tuscan party for the inauguration of the winery of the Fattoria del Colle, almost a palace for Cenerentola wine that becomes princess of Doc Orcia

On June 26^th, Donatella Cinelli Colombini will inaugurate the expansion and restoration of the Fattoria del Colle winery with the blessing of Bishop Stefano Manetti and a “déjeuner sur l’herbe”, for 150 people. Typical Valdorcian dishes will be served accompanied by Brunello, Orcia Doc, Chianti Superiore and Supertuscans. A country party according to the great Tuscan tradition to celebrate the conclusion of a project that allows to increase the quality of wines and transforms the Fattoria del Colle into a wine destination capable of attracting enthusiasts and offering them unforgettable experiences and tastings.

CENERENTOLA WINE UNDERGROUND CELLAR

The main creation is a large underground area intended for the refinement of bottled wines for which 3,366 mc of earth and rock (231 hours of jackhammer by the Edilpellegrini Company) have been moved. The project by architect Silvia Nucci, from the Studio Luigi Rocchi,included a single large room of 450m2 for the aging of bottled wine.

Here the temperature must remain at constant 16°C while in the area for sparkling wine it drops to 12°C. It is in this area, separated by panels, that the pupitres have been placed for the manual remuage of the brut rosé classic method obtained from Sangiovese grapes.

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A WINTER OAK WOOD TRANSFORMED INTO A CORTEN SILHOUETTE

Outside Donatella Cinelli Colombini asked the designers and artisans who worked at the construction site – all local -, to be inspired by what they saw around them. Donatella is in fact a strong opposer of the “non-places” that take away identity from the territories. From this request and from the long months of lockdown, which have confined everyone around the house, the idea was born to reproduce in metal the oak woods near the Fattoria del Colle.

In winter the noblest trees of the Mediterranean scrub, become a lace of bare branches that rise to the sky. The young architect Elisa Boldi (Coima) designed them as silhouettes and cut them with laser on iron slabs making them then get rusty so that they had the same colour as the trees. Finally, the corten forest has been put, for 50 meters, around the new cellar and delimits the panoramic terrace above.

The silhouettes of the oaks allowed the designer Silvia Nucci to create continuity between the new building and the pre-existing part with the fermentation room, the bottling area and a farmhouse built about a century ago. In this last building the immersive room has been built, with the antique bottle library and a system of images, sounds and lights that teaches wine lovers to “listen to the vineyards”.

14 May 2021

in Vines and wines

CLUB OFFER OF 6 MIXED WINES

6 different wines for two memorable dinners: IGT Supertuscan white and rosé. Doc Orcia Cenerentola, Brunello IOsonoDonatella, highly rated Vin Santo and Passito

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Exclusive wines real rarities made in limited number of bottles. Family wines obtained from the grapes from the vineyards belonging to Donatella Cinelli Colombini and aged in the Casato Prime Donne winery in Montalcino and in the Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda, Tuscany. Wines destined to the more demanding of wine lovers and to those who want to experience unique moments enjoying extraordinary and rare bottles. These will be delivered directly to your home.

3 WINES FOR A ROMANTIC DINNER

– 1 bottle of Sanchimento IGT Toscana Bianco 2020 Biologico, organic, in preview (a series of 2.000 bottles)

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– 1 bottle of Cenerentola Orcia Doc 2017, dreaming of the Val d’Orcia while waiting to come back to Tuscany (series of 9.300 bottles)

– 1 bottle of Passito IGT Toscana 2017, 0,375lt, to be served cool together with a creamy dessert … (series of 346 bottles)

3 WINES FOR A MEMORABLE DINNER

– 1 bottle of Rosa di Tetto IGT Toscana Rosé 2019, because a “Pink wine” is the best way to begin a great night (series of 2.000 bottles)
– 1 bottle of IOsonoDONATELLA Brunello di Montalcino 2012, the most important wine produced by Donatella. The very last bottles available that we hope will be opened in special occasions (series of 800 bottles)
– 1 bottle of Vin Santo del Chianti DOC 2008, 0,75lt to end with a sweet bang … if you do not finish the bottle there is no problem, because Vin Santo can be kept for months with its original cork as a closure (series of 600 bottles)

17 March 2020

in Farm experiences