The career of Baldassare Filippo Fanti, scion of an old Montalcino family, reassumes and epitomizes in many ways the evolution and development of the entire production zone, the town of Montalcino, its wines, and its various appellations.

The story of the Val di Cornia, at least in terms of its emergence as a well known and prestigious wine-producing area, is a rather recent one.

Giovanni Carlo Sacchet and Antonio Mario Zaccheo founded their firm, which has become an important force in Tuscan wine, in 1967,

That the appetite comes with eating is a proverb in many languages, and its truth is also born out in the world of wine.