Frescobaldi

Around the year 1000, the first members of the Frescobaldi family moved to Florence from the Val di Pesa, where their most ancient agricultural estate, Tenuta Castiglioni, flourishes. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the house supplied wine to the Court of England and the Papal Court in Rome, and during the Renaissance, Donatello and Michelozzo Michelozzi regularly bought wine from the Nipozzano estate.

Nipozzano Castle is situated in Chianti Rufina. In 1855, the forebears of the family introduced vine varietals including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Nero, and Chardonnay, with Chardonnay vineyards planted at 700 meters of altitude as early as 1855 at Benefizio. Castello Nipozzano and Castello Pomino were the first estates in Tuscany to receive PEFC certification, and Frescobaldi estates practice integrated production and sustainable agriculture, earning AgriQualità certification from the Region of Tuscany in 2012.