Badia a Coltibuono

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The word Badia means “Abbey” and Coltibuono means “Good Harvest / Good Cultivation”. As a monastery it produced wine almost 1,000 years ago and the Stucchi-Prinetti family has owned the estate since 1846
   
The winery has always been focused on traditional varietals of the region. All the Sangiovese for their estate wines comes from massal selection and they use only indigenous yeasts for fermentation
  
In the 1980s, the winery was one of the first in Chianti Classico to convert to organic viticulture. Since then they have been instrumental in moving the appellation towards these practices, with a goal of getting all the estates to convert to organic winegrowing.
  
Climate change is a major concern for the winery and they are constantly working with this mind by using procedures such as dry farming, increasing biodiversity, minimizing tilling, using compost in the vineyards and doing less green harvesting.