Cecchi Chianti Classico Storia di Famiglia 2021

The Cecchi family has been in the wine business since the late 1800’s ever since Luigi Cecchi started a business as a wine broker. Greeted by early success, the family reputation grew and grew well beyond the family’s home region of Siena until it became a household name in Italian wine circles.

That rock-solid reputation throughout the country was built by forging ahead with new opportunities and constantly adding to their fleet of wines. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the family expanded their holdings considerably, looking to the future by buying properties in Tuscany and Umbria and upping their cellar-aging capacity.

The Cecchi’s would also make a key move into the borough of Castellina in Chianti – an area long known for making some of the very best classically produced Chianti Classicos out there. That has proven pivotal for the family’s recent success.

In the last few decades, not many wineries in all of Italy have been as highly regarded or as highly rated as the Cecchi’s and their Sangiovese based wines. Ever since they bought the historic Villa Rosa estate in Castellina, their quality has been nearly unrivaled and one of the few ‘guarantees’ in an industry so dominated by weather and uncertainty.