Tenuta San Jacopo

Tenuta San Jacopo

The history of Tenuta San Jacopo dates back to the early 18th century. An eighteenth-century villa, characteristic farmhouses, a cellar on a hill. Between the Chianti Classico and the Valdarno lie 130 hectares of vineyards, olive groves and woods which regained their ancient prestige thanks to the vision and work of a dedicated family.

When the three Milanese brothers Vanni, Carlo and Marco Cattaneo bought the property in 2002, an idea led them to enhance the identity of the place and innovate with an entrepreneurial spirit, to combine the tradition of Tuscan product culture with Lombard pragmatism. The first of their goals was to create “great” wines that are pleasant to the taste, elegant, respectful of local vines but treated with modern technologies. Producing olive oil, enhancing the great, natural vocation of the territory, is the second

The manual harvesting of the bunches from the different plots takes place using only crates, quickly delivered to the cellar. Here the grapes, after a careful selection, are de-stemmed without pressing and softly placed in small thermally conditioned steel tanks, respecting the origin by plot and variety. Subsequent cellar operations require suitable punching down, pumping over and delestage practices which allow for maximum extraction of colour and extremely fine and sweet tannins as well as the maintenance of all the aromatic components. After the first fermentation, the wines are transferred to small oak barrels to complete the malolactic fermentation, always separately for each vineyard and variety, in order to preserve their peculiar characteristics.