Featured producer  ·  Carmignano, Italy

Tenuta di Capezzana

One of the oldest wine estates in the world. On these hills west of Florence, vines and olive trees have been cultivated for more than a thousand years — a lineage recorded in documents dating back to 804 AD.

804 AD
Winemaking documented
Carmignano
Historic DOCG
Organic
Certified BIO estate
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Long before the term "Super Tuscan" existed, the Contini Bonacossi family were blending Sangiovese with a measure of Cabernet here in Carmignano — a tradition said to predate Tuscany's modern revolution by centuries.

Winemaking at Carmignano is almost as old as wine itself — Etruscan artefacts point to vineyards here 3,000 years ago, and a 9th-century parchment records vines and olives on the Capezzana estate over 1,200 years ago. In 1716 Cosimo III de' Medici named Carmignano one of Tuscany's superior wine zones.

Carmignano's growers were blending Sangiovese with Cabernet Sauvignon in the 18th century — long before the 'Super Tuscan' movement made the practice famous. Capezzana, farmed by the Contini Bonacossi family since 1920, is the estate that carries this legacy.

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“To pour a Capezzana wine is to drink a thousand years of Tuscan craft — and to taste the patience of a family that never chased fashion.”

The Wine Monk on Tenuta di Capezzana

A living heritage

The story in four chapters

  1. 804 AD

    The first record

    A leasing document references vines and olive trees growing on the Capezzana land — among the oldest evidence of winemaking anywhere.

  2. 1920s

    The Contini Bonacossi era

    The family takes the helm, shaping the modern estate and its devotion to Sangiovese and the Carmignano tradition.

  3. 1975

    Carmignano recognised

    Carmignano earns its own appellation — formalising a centuries-old practice of blending Sangiovese with Cabernet, long before "Super Tuscan."

  4. Today

    Organic & uncompromising

    Around 100 hectares of certified-organic vineyards and ancient olive groves, producing benchmark wines and prized estate oil — all carried by The Wine Monk.

In the vineyardTenuta di Capezzana

Carmignano, Italy

Where Sangiovese meets a thousand years of know-how

The hills west of Florence give Capezzana its signature: structured, perfumed reds with the warmth of Tuscany and the precision of a family that has done this for generations.

100 ha
Organic vineyards
Sangiovese
Signature grape
EVO oil
From estate groves

From the estate

Tenuta di Capezzana at The Wine Monk