Podere di'Giachetti
San Casciano in Val di Pesa — Chianti Classico — since 1964
We have been making wine since 1964.
3 hectares in 1964. 90 hectares today.
Silvano Giachetti bought the first three hectares from the Curia of Florence. There were a few rows of vines, scattered about. Today the estate runs to ninety hectares of land and olive groves, and we are the third generation.
For more than fifty years the wine made here ended up in other people's bottles: it was sold in bulk, and whoever bought it put their own label on it. Plenty of Chianti works this way, and almost nobody says so.
In 2018 we began bottling on our own account. A few bottles out of everything we make, from the vineyards we know best. The rest still leaves in bulk, and that is fine.
Four wines, four household names
A Chianti Classico, a straight Sangiovese, a rosé and a white. No agency chose these names: one comes from a wooden tub, one from a customer who got up from the table merrier than he had bargained for.
Alberese, galestro, clay
More than a dozen plots scattered across the hills, between 220 and 300 metres, facing south. The soil changes from one piece to the next; what they have in common are the stones. San Casciano sits on the northern edge of Chianti Classico: cooler, and in the wine you taste it as acidity and scent.
Not a typo
di' stands for del. I' stands for il. It is the Tuscan article, still heard in the street here.
That is why the estate is written Podere di' Giachetti and one of the wines is called I' Bugiardo. The apostrophe stays where it is.
Twenty-five minutes from Florence, thirty from Siena
San Casciano in Val di Pesa is the Chianti town closest to Florence. Twenty-five minutes of road and the houses give way to hills, rows of vines and cypress trees. The other way, Siena is half an hour off.
This is not the postcard part: it is the part where the work gets done. At Sant'Andrea in Percussina, a few bends from here, the Chianti Classico Consorzio has its seat in the house where Machiavelli wrote The Prince in exile.
Direct sales at the estate, by appointment
Write us an email saying which wines and how many bottles: we answer the same day and settle a day for collection. Even for a single bottle.
Cellar visits and tastings: they are coming. We are finishing the work on the cellar and the outdoor spaces.