First edition of “DegustaVino Via Gioberti”: a new wine experience in Florence.

Florence, October 2024. The association Le Cento Botteghe di Via Gioberti organizes the first edition of DegustaVino Via Gioberti, in collaboration with the Consorzio Chianti Rufina.

Sunday 13 October, from 10:00 to 19:00, Via Gioberti will be transformed into a large open-air wine cellar, with shops open and the street pedestrianized for the occasion. Visitors will have the opportunity to taste DOC and DOCG wines from 18 wineries of the Consorzio Chianti Rùfina for free and to buy bottles at cellar prices.

It will be possible to take part in a wine tour along the street, with a glass in hand, a carnet of tastings and a map to guide the experience. The tasting booklet, the glass and the glass holder can be collected directly on October 13th with a deposit of €10 at the InfoPoint stands in via Gioberti.

The event is organized with the contribution of Toscana Promozione Turistica.

Rùfina is the smallest of the seven specifications of Chianti: it occupies a surface area of ​​12,483 HA, with 750 HA registered in the Register destined to become about 1000 with a production of about 27,000 HL corresponding to 3,500,000 bottles on the market every year.

Out of a total of 22 producers of Chianti Rùfina, 20 are members of the Chianti Rùfina Consortium chaired today by Federico Giuntini Masseti.

These numbers demonstrate how the fame of Rùfina wine is not linked to large quantities of production, but rather to the very high peculiarity of the Sangiovese of this territory and to the high levels of quality achieved by the wines of the individual producing companies, which in the last fifteen years have undertaken a very important operation of renewal of the vineyards and their cellars.

The production area is located in the province of Florence, at a distance of about 20 km from the capital, and is distributed in the municipalities of Pontassieve, Rùfina, Londa, Pelago and Dicomano. It falls in the north-eastern part of Tuscany and includes a piedmont territory located on the middle slope of the Sieve Valley, in an area of ​​high hills and low and medium mountains. It is a unique environmental and productive reality in Tuscany, where the specific ecological microcosm and climate makes possible the perfect balance between vineyards, fir woods, chestnut groves and olive groves.

For Chianti Rufina the ampelographic base requires Sangiovese from 70 to 100% and among the other permitted grapes, white grapes cannot exceed 10%, while Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon cannot exceed 15%.

The wine cannot be released for consumption before September 1st of the year following the harvest. The Riserva mention requires a minimum aging of 2 years, of which six months in wooden barrels and a minimum alcoholic strength of 12.5%.