Today the beating hearts of Castello di Monsanto are Fabrizio and Laura Bianchi. They are the future and have preserved that impressive vision from 60 years ago. Their journey has been shaped with inspiration and choices that are not always easy and taking the road less traveled has made it more surprising albeit uncertain. Wine in Tuscany was not yet ready for a revolution. Audacity, determination, and foresight were key to pursuing ideas that might have seemed obscure at the time, but later played a large part in the history of Chianti Classico. Today Laura, Fabrizio's daughter, continues what her father, thanks to her grandfather Aldo, started, by transforming longstanding tradition with pride and tenacity. Because the future passes right through here: from what was built yesterday for a better tomorrow.

An inclination to be visionaries. The predisposition to see something where that something is not there yet. The capacity to think less and feel more. The ability to start writing a story without knowing what the ending will be, but with the absolute certainty that it will be told as though it were unique and unrepeatable for generations.
It was 1961 when Aldo Bianchi, Fabrizio's father, fell deeply in love with Castello di Monsanto and purchased it. It was true love, ceaseless and immediately shared by his son Fabrizio who looked out from the top of il Poggio and was able to see beyond the bounds. He saw not only the beauty of the panorama that stretches from San Gimignano to the Florentine Chianti where Mount Amiata and the Apuan Alps stand out. He saw much more. With his wife Giuliana at his side, moved by the passion for wine passed down from his mother and the amazement he felt while tasting some of the bottles found in the cellar, he managed to bring life to what destiny had already partially mapped out.

Not just an entrepreneurial project, but a life philosophy based on respect and love for man and nature. As new vines were planted and many farmhouses on the estate were renovated, bold intuition began to take shape. From this moment on, every choice became a step forward towards an objective in which man and nature were essential to one other. It was an inclination to allow the extraordinary to happen. As well as to be surprised. And the surprise was truly magnificent in 1962 when Fabrizio decided to separately vinify the grapes from Il Poggio vineyard, where Sangiovese reigns still today. A choice that was risky perhaps, but turned out to be a great success not only for Monsanto, but also for Sangiovese, which was appreciated again from that moment on. And thus the first Cru of Chianti Classico came to be, an eyewitness to how the past made room for the ideas of tomorrow and the unrelenting rhythm created not only by the courage of man, but also by the bounty of the surrounding nature. This was only the starting point of a long and incredible journey in the constant search for quality.