Lornano

Lornano is a Chianti Classico producer in the southwest hills of Castellina in Chianti, producing wine since 1904 and owned by the Taddei family since that year. In the early 2010s, Nicolò and Galileo Pozzoli led the estate with guidance from enologists Franco and Matteo Bernabei.

Across its 180 hectares, over 51 hectares of vineyards form a single plot, with Sangiovese occupying 80% alongside Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Trebbiano and Malvasia. Lornano follows an SQNPI-certified agricultural model and avoids chemical fertilizers, herbicides and vineyard irrigation. Following mostly manual harvesting and careful grape selection, estate-grown grapes are vinified in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks before the wine ages in French oak barrels in an underground cellar. Its wines include Chianti Classico Annata, Riserva and Gran Selezione, all made entirely from Sangiovese, as well as Commendator Enrico Supertuscan and Vin Santo del Chianti Classico.