Dievole, Chianti Classico

A truly historic estate, this winery has become a leading light in the search for site-specific wines that reward the best clone selection of the Sangiovese grape variety.

With three single-vineyards in their range (we have two), they are a living example of how to respect nature and harness its generosity with as little intervention as possible.

From our perspective it is their use of huge vat for maturing that is so immediately noticeable - never a toasted stave in sight, meaning that, with no toast in the barrels, you are presented with fruit quality and a natural oak impact, that is far softer and more "natural" feeling than conventional barrel use. It's daring but ultimately immensely rewarding and pleasurable!

The history of Dievole is quite incredible. The estate has ancient roots dating to 1090, but for the following 850 years or so, didn't make any wine. Its strategic positioning in Castelnuovo Berardenga meant that it occupied a key place along the politically important trade routes between Florence and Sienna. The name "Dievole" officially appeared for the first time in a contract selling the estate for "two capons, three loaves of bread, and 6 silver Lucca denari" - oh for such times... and then again the estate appears in papers kept by the noblewoman Ildegonda Camaiori where the estate was her wedding gift from her husband Count Giulio Terrosi Vagnoli in 1870s Tuscany (makes a Le Creuset pot seem rather small), and the detail is wonderful: the whole estate cost 361,632 Lira (just shy of €200 in 2025). But the most important part of the papers from a wine perspective is that they show the ledger of balances giving the information pertaining to all of the peasant families, who at the time worked each section of land-holding entrusted to them. Many descendants of those families named in the papers from the 1870s are still working and living in Chianti today.

In Italian, the English phrase "God Willing" translates as "Dio Vuole" and this is widely believed to be the manner in which the name of the Dievole estate came about: if it is God's will, the estate will...

Dievole, Chianti Classico

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