Tenute Silvio Nardi

Tenute Silvio Nardi is a important winery in Montalcino that for more than 70 years has been committed to offering the area's excellent wines through family-run management. It all began with Silvio Nardi, an Umbrian entrepreneur who in the 1950s purchased the Casale del Bosco estate, located at the northwestern end of the Ilcinese district, setting himself up as the first "outsider" to invest in Montalcino's wine industry. The winery's first Brunello di Montalcino was then produced in 1958, while the purchase of the Manachiara estate in Castelnuovo dell'Abate followed in 1962. Silvio Nardi was also among the founding members of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino in 1967 and, five years later, the entrepreneur invested in a new estate, Bibbiano, located in the municipality of Buonconvento. With the 1985 entry of Emilia Nardi, Silvio's youngest daughter and current owner, the winery experienced a series of radical changes in technical and commercial management, with the producer also renovating vineyards and facilities. Emilia then dedicated herself to an ambitious work of clonal selection, aimed at isolating five prized clones of Sangiovese Grosso from the estate's old vineyards.

The 36 hectares of vineyards on which the Silvio Nardi Estates are spread out over different areas, particularly around the Casale del Bosco and Manachiara estates. The plots in Casale del Bosco have an abundance of skeleton, jaspers, marly schists, clays and sands while those in Manachiara are rich in clays, sandstones and marly limestones. Altitudes range from 140 to 480 meters above sea level, and in addition to Sangiovese Grosso, Montalcino's symbolic variety, the Nardi's raise small percentages of Merlot, Petit Verdot, Syrah, Colorino, Malvasia and Moscato. In the winery, fermentations take place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks while subsequent aging takes place among French oak barriques and tonneaux and large Slavonian oak barrels, in a connection between tradition and innovation.

Tenute Silvio Nardi's production can only be centered on Brunello di Montalcino, declined in the 'classic' version and in the 'Vigneto Manachiara' and 'Vigneto Poggio Doria' crus. These are subtle and enveloping expressions of the terroir, of sublime pleasantness.