Chianti Colli Fiorentini DOCG is a red wine produced 18 municipalities in the hilly area around and including Florence. Chianti Colli Fiorentini means ‘Florence Hills Chianti’ and is one of the sub-regions within Tuscany‘s wider Chianti DOCG, in this case the Province of Florence (‘Firenze’), just north of Chianti Classico. The Chianti Colli Fiorentini DOC was recognized in 1932 and later became Chianti Colli Fiorentini DOCG.
Consorzio: The consortium was founded in 1994 to protect and enhance the Chianti Colli Fiorentini wine and the Vin Santo del Chianti Colli Fiorentini. Its trademark is the “Marzocco”, the lion symbol of Florence represented on the tower of Palazzo della Signoria, symbolically joined with the right paw to the goblet of Chianti Colli Fiorentini.
Production zone: The DOCG’s production zone stretches from near Pistoia in the northwest where it neighbours Chianti Montalbano, along the Arno around the southern and eastern limits of Florence, where it borders the Chianti Classico DOCG zone to the north, and on to Dicomano at the southern border of the Chianti Rufina zone.
The production area also includes 3 offshoots that descend to the south and which include: to the west the municipalities of Montespertoli, San Casciano Val di Pesa, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa up to Certaldo and Barberino Val d’Elsa; to the east, Incisa and Figline Val d’Arno. The area extends to the far east, in a narrow strip of territory from Pelago to Reggello.
Communes: Bagno a Ripoli. | Barberino Val d’Elsa. | Certaldo. | Fiesole. | Figline Val d’Arno. | Firenze (Florence). | Impruneta. | Incisa. | Lastra a Signa. | Montelupo Fiorentino. | Montespertoli. | Pelago. | Reggello. | Tavarnelle Val di Pesa. | Pontassieve. | Rignano sull’Arno. | Scandicci. | Tavarnelle Val di Pesa.
Terroir: The territory consists of hills and valleys at an altitude between 150 and 400 metres above sea level. From the geomorphological point of view, in this territory there are four systems: the Holocene alluvial deposits, the intermontana basin of the upper Valdarno and the Pleistocene deposits, the Pliocene hills and the Miocene Orapennine hills.
Wine style: ‘Good quaffing Chianti as well as some of the finest reservas,’ (David Gleave MW: 1989, p.99).
Organics: 2016 ‘25% of wine estates belonging to the Chianti Colli Fiorentini consortium now have organic certification status,’ (Helen Farrell: 2016).
Wineries
Certified organic, Biodynamic practices: Fattoria Le Masse (Barberino Tavarnelle).
Certified organic: Fattoria San Michele a Torri (Scandicci). | Gualandi. | La Spinosa. | Podere Casaccia. | Ottomani. | Tenuta San Vito in Fior di Selva (Montelupo Fiorentino). | Villa Spoiano (Tavarnelle Val di Pesa).
No certification: Castelli del Grevepesa (San Casciano in Val di Pesa). | Castelvecchio (San Casciano). | Fattoria di Bagnolo (Impruneta). | Fattoria Lilliano (Bagno a Ripoli). | Lanciola (Impruneta). | Tenuta La Cipressaia (Montespertoli).
Website: www.consorziovinochianti.it/?lang=en
Bibliography
David Gleave, ‘The Wines of Italy‘ (Salamander Books, London, 1989), p.99.