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This farm is located on the top of the homonymous hill, about 8 Km from San Miniato, 44 Km from Pisa and 35 Km from Florence.
The fields are cultivated on a hilly landscape about 150-200 meters above sea level..
The Estate, born in 1967, has an extent of 202 hectares; 18 as vineyards. The Estate is famous for its excellent wines, appreciated since ancient times (notes found in the Vatican archives dating back to 1508).
The San Quintino Estate is also famous for its production of olive oil, the typical highest quality Tuscan olive oil denominated “olio extravergine di oliva” (extra-virgin olive oil).
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EUR 10,80
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EUR 4,14
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When you leave San Miniato and descend into the valley of the Ensi river, and climb again to the hamlet of Volpaio, a massive hill will be directly opposite, its slopes gently declining into the valleys of the Ensi, of the Pilerno, and of the Pilernaccio, all of wich separate it quite distinctly from the nearby hills.
After crossing the Ensi, there’s a road that ascends to the top of the hill gradually revealing a vision of olive trees and extensive vineyards covering the slopes and the valleys below, broken only in the steepest sections by scrub woods that are haunt of local games.
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From here, in days with a clear sky, you can have a wide landscape vision till San Gimignano and Volterra, on a side, and Montecatini on the other one; in front of you, beyond the hills, the plain touches the sea...
If you can stop staring at this view, looking a bit around, you'll see what remains of the thousand years of history: a little cemetery covered with underbrush and invaded by thorn bushes, and, down in the valleys, heaps of darkened bricks and old farmhouses.
In ancient times, in fact, on the top of the hill stood a castle. There are evidences that this important structure was there even before the 1000 AD and that it had a significant role in the communal disputes. But already around the 1500 AD, as we know from ancient maps of this site, only a tower, with the "door of the castle", remained of all the building. |
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The hills around San Miniato, well-known for their most famous product: the white truffle, take part of the producing area of Pisa hills Chianti D.O.C.G. and of the white wine Bianco Pisano di San Torpè, D.O.C. since 1980.
In this context our farm produces, respectful of the ancient tradition, the following wines:
- Chianti D.O.C.G. (Sangiovese, Canaiolo, Colorino, Malvasia Nera);
- La Fagiana (Cabernet, Merlot, Sangiovese) aged for almost 2 years in oaken barriques;
- Bianco Pisano di San Torpè D.O.C. (Trebbiano Toscano e Malvasia).
Besides it can offer these particularly appreciated products:
- Vin Santo Bianco Pisano di San Torpè D.O.C. (Tuscan Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes accurately selected, hanged up and left to dry naturally);
- Grappa di Chianti (made from dregs of pressed Sangiovese grapes, still fresh and wine dripping).
It completes the production the precious extra-virgin olive oil from hand-picked olives and cold pressed.
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