Castello di Monsanto owns some of the best vineyard sites within the appellation and are home to the largest reserves of Chianti Classico in Tuscany. In 1962, Fabrizio Bianchi founded the winery after it was presented to him as a wedding gift from his parents. That same year, pioneering Monsanto was the first winery to make a Chianti Classico Cru from the single‘Il Poggio’vineyard and worked to eliminate white grapes from Chianti Classico Riserva blend.

Out of the 72 hectares of vineyards, between 260 and 310 metres a.s.l., 56 hectares are of Sangiovese, the vine which the company has always deeply believed in right from the start. The Sangiovese clones present in the vineyards come from a mass selection of the vines found in the vineyard “Il Poggio”, the “mother” of all the vineyards at Monsanto. Also present in a small percentage are the two historic vines of the Chianti Classico grape blend : Canaiolo and Colorino.