Losi family Chianti Classico estate at Pontignanello, organic since 2014. Traditionalist producer still doing the governo all'uso toscano and a Vin Santo Millennium aged 10+ years in caratelli.
Tip: Ask for the Vin Santo Millennium vertical; the solera-style caratelli have been refilled for decades.
Address: Loc. Pontignanello 6, 53019 Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy, Tuscany
Tiezzi-Borsa family estate east of Siena, a registered VinNatur member. Long macerations, native yeasts, no fining or filtration, minimal sulfur. Wines like Pacina, Donesco and La Cerretina are reference points for Tuscan natural Sangiovese.
Tip: Pacina is also a working farm with cereals, pulses and olive oil; a visit takes a full half-day.
Giovanna Morganti's three-hectare Castelnuovo Berardenga estate. Le Trame, the estate's only wine, is unoaked Sangiovese-led IGT Toscana (left the DOCG in 2012 in protest at wood-fashion rules), made from meticulously farmed organic fruit.
Tip: Allocations move via Rosenthal Wine Merchant; cellar visits by referral only.
Querciabella practices a strict vegan vinification, eliminating all animal-derived fining agents alongside its plant-only biodynamics. The estate is recognised as the largest extension of vegan organic vineyards in Italy.
Tip: Ask the Greve cellar team to walk through the green-manure cover-crop and plant-based-preparation regime.
Tiezzi-Borsa family estate east of Siena, a registered VinNatur member. Long macerations, native yeasts, no fining or filtration, minimal sulfur. Wines like Pacina, Donesco and La Cerretina are reference points for Tuscan natural Sangiovese.
Tip: Pacina is also a working farm with cereals, pulses and olive oil; a visit takes a full half-day.
Giovanna Morganti's three-hectare Castelnuovo Berardenga estate. Le Trame, the estate's only wine, is unoaked Sangiovese-led IGT Toscana (left the DOCG in 2012 in protest at wood-fashion rules), made from meticulously farmed organic fruit.
Tip: Allocations move via Rosenthal Wine Merchant; cellar visits by referral only.
Pioneer natural-wine estate above Massa Marittima. Founded by Fabrizio Niccolaini in the 1980s, biodynamic since 2004, run today by Francesca Sfondrini. Native yeasts, extended maceration, no filtration, minimal or no sulfur across reds, rose and white Vermentino.
Tip: The rose and the Vermentino offer the natural lineage at its most approachable; reds need decanting and tend toward funkier registers.
Querciabella practices a strict vegan vinification, eliminating all animal-derived fining agents alongside its plant-only biodynamics. The estate is recognised as the largest extension of vegan organic vineyards in Italy.
Tip: Ask the Greve cellar team to walk through the green-manure cover-crop and plant-based-preparation regime.
Avignonesi is registered with The Vegan Society and certified ISO 45001 by SGS; the estate's biodynamic-and-organic Vino Nobile carries vegan declarations on the technical sheets. The homepage lists Vegan among its certifications.
Tip: Verify on the bottle vintage by vintage; some single-vineyard cuvees outside the main Vino Nobile may not carry the same vegan declaration year to year.
Salcheto runs a no-added-sulfite vinification across its certified-organic-and-biodynamic Vino Nobile lineage; water waste is 100 percent recycled and the off-grid cellar runs on solar, geothermal and biomass energy.
Tip: The Salcheto Salco Vino Nobile bottling is the showcase no-added-sulfite Sangiovese; ask for the carbon-footprint passport at the cellar door.
