Fattoria Selvapiana

Via Selvapiana 43,
50065 Pontassieve (FI)
TEL. +39 055 8369848
FAX +39 055 8316840
E-mail: selvapia@centroin.it

OWNER
Francesco Giuntini

ENOLOGIST
Franco Bernabei

PERSON IN CHARGE OF VINEYARDS
Federico Giuntini Masseti

TYPE OF FIRM
Farm

SURFACE AREA OF VINEYARD
40 ha. In the wineyards: Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.

TOTAL SURFACE AREA OF ESTATE
240 ha

YEAR IN WHICH FIRM WAS FOUNDED
bought by Michele Giuntini in 1827

CELLAR CAPACITY
steel and vitrified cement vats with a capacity of 5.500 hl, oak casks and "barriques" making a total of 1.080 hl EMPLOYEES - 6 permanently employed, 3 temporary workers and 2 part-time workers

NUMBER OF BOTTLES PRODUCED
130.000

TOTAL PRODUCTION
1500 hl

DESCRIPTION OF ESTATE
Selvapiana is a typical Tuscan estate of the sort that used to be run according to the crop-sharing system with, at its centre, the manor-house, cellars and other in- stallations which have now been abandoned: olive-mill, granary, carpenter's workshop, blacksmith's forge, and brick-kiln. In the middle-ages the buildings consisted of two towers probably used as watch-towers or being part of a small castle. They have successively been incorporated into the later wall structures which stem mainly from the Renaissance period. Today the estate's vineyards and olive-groves are specialized installations.

HISTORY OF THE ESTATE AND ITS PEOPLE
From the late middle ages until an unknown time Selvapiana was the holiday seat of the Bishops of Florence. It subsequently belonged to various rich florentine merchant families including the Strozzi, probably the Vecchietti, and, lastly the Scalandroni families. Michele Giuntini a very succesful banker between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, acquired Selvapiana following a mortgage granted to Maria Gaetana Aldovranda Scalandroni in 1827.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE OWNER
Five generations of the Giuntini family have run Selvapiana since 1827. The present owner, Francesco Giuntini, was born in 1932 and has graduated in agricultural studies from the University of Florence. He has strived to make sure the "Chianti Rùfina" produced in Selvapiana gain the prestige the wine has alwais enjoied at least since the 1716 decree issued by Cosimo the third of Medici which, among others, delimited the celebrated "Pomino" wine-region in which Selvapiana was at the time included.

WINES PRODUCED
Chianti Rùfina d.o.c.g. Chianti Rùfina Riserva d.o.c.g. vigneto "Bucerchiale", Chianti Rùfina Riserva d.o.c.g. "Fornace", Vin Santo del Chianti Rùfina d.o.c.