Dario DainelliThe wine for me
When you decide to open a bottle of good wine, you already have the desire to live a special moment.
It’s an emotion, a sort of ritual, research of a state of wellness.
This is wine, for me.
It is with this purpose that I started the production: not with the presumption to produce a super wine, but with the dream of conveying this feeling to anyone who decide to uncork this bottle.
01COMPANY
Cantina Dainelli was born from Dario’s deep passion for his land and for wine. A love that grew over time, through years of hard work, ideas and expectations that recall the ground, grapes and bottles filled with perseverance. A second life, rich in enthusiasm.
Today Cantina Dainelli is an experience that aims to convey message of authenticity and craftsmanship. It is family, an intimate project created at home for the family. Between the new and the memory, between innovation and tradition, between ambition and moderation. Cantina Dainelli, nestled among the rolling hills near Cerreto Guidi knows for the Chianti appellation and the terraces overlooking the sea of Giglio Island, aims to be a small but well-maintained winery.
02TRADITION
Cantina Dainelli is not just a brand, it’s place. Here the nature and land dictate not only the timing, but also the different identities of the products.
Cantina Dainelli’s research does not aim to perfection, but to the enhancement of peculiarities. The result is wines that are not uniform, but recognizable. At Cantina Dainelli wine is irony, sharing, custom. Uncorking a bottle gives rise to a new emotion that pervades your daily life.
03OUR LINES
L’area di produzione vinicola di Cantina Dainelli
- we are located in Cerreto Guidi, at an average height of 150 meters above sea level.
- the area covers about 3 hectares of vineyards
- in the Cerreto area, the main variety is Sangiovese for almost all of the extension, except for a small part of Malvasia Nera Toscana (Tempranillo)
- on the Giglio Island, we harvest the Ansonica variety.
We harvest the Ansonica variety on terraces of dry stone walls overlooking the sea, among limestone and sandy soils, accessible only on foot through steep paths. The grape harvest is manual and yields are moderate, but our Ansonica is dense with aromas, those of the sea and wind that give it unique minerality and sapidity.
The soil of Cerreto Guidi is composed of a typical Tuscan highly clayey soil called mattaione, on which vineyards are often grown. It is characterized by little skeleton, but has a very strong presence of shells and calcium carbonate: that “salt” that gives the wines their elegance.
The Grapes varietals
The Grapes varietals
Sangiovese
One of the most widely grown black grape variety in our country and the most widespread in Tuscany. It has medium leaf, the berry is medium to large and the skin is purplish. In the right conditions, it gives fine wines that can mature over time, with hints of small red berries to which can be added those of the wood. At Cantina Dainelli we have chosen 3 different clones of Sangiovese, highly qualitative and widely used in Chianti and the reason is that we do not want to give up on the polyclonal nature of Sangiovese.
Malvasia Nera
Black grape vine native to the eastern part of the Mediterranean. It has medium leaf, medium spheroidal berry, thick skin and bluish-black colour. Sweet and fortified wines with an intense and pleasant flavour are made from this grape variety. At Cantina Dainelli we use Malvasia Nera, added to Sangiovese.
Colorino
Black grape variety grown in Tuscany, Umbria and Marche. It has medium-small leaf, medium-small berry, and black-purple skin. Its origin is remote and many believe it to be indigenous to the Valdarno hills, probably derived from the selection and domestication of some wild vines. From Colorino vinified in purity we obtain a wine of intense ruby red colour, fruity aroma, complex, fine, good acid and tannic.
Ansonica
White grape variety native to Sicily (Inzolia vine) and grown precisely in the south and on islands. It has medium-sized leaf and berry, amber-yellow skin. Vinified in purity, it gives a straw-yellow wine with greenish reflections and intense, enveloping aromas in which tones of fresh and unripe fruit, herbaceous, mineral, balsamic and an important savouriness can be recognized. We take it from the seaside vineyards of Giglio Island to produce the only white wine of the line: the SBRONZA.
Meet the teamSMALL TEAM, BIG FAMILY
When you decide to open a bottle of good wine, you already have the desire to live a special moment. Dario Dainelli
DARIO DAINELLI
