I’m sometimes asked at wine courses and wine tastings about the connection between various Heidsieck champagnes. The story starts in the late 1600s, when the Champagne region was a busy trading route for cloth from northern Europe and goods from the Mediterranean. The original Florens Louis Heidsieck, a cloth merchant from Germany, switched from bouclé […]
Castellani: blending old & new
Piergiorgio Castellani is the fourth generation of the Castellani family to run the estates. Castellani have six properties, five in Chianti (in Colline Pisane) and one in Chianti Classico. It’s a sizeable portfolio for a family-owned winery: • 300ha vineyards. Sourcing from growers in a further 1,000ha. • 90 employees • 26 million bottles per […]
