MAZZEI

For more than six hundred years, the Mazzei family have produced unique wines with spirit and passion, renewed from generation to generation. Mazzei have three estates between Tuscany and Sicily and focus on retaining regional style and exceptional quality. 2016 Wine Specator Critics Choice AwardSer Lapo Mazzei is the author of the first known document to use the "Chianti" denomination in 1398; in 1435, when his granddaughter Madonna Smeralda Mazzei married Piero di Agnolo da Fonterutoli, the holding became part of the family's estate. Since then, for 24 generations, the Mazzei family produces wine at Castello di Fonterutoli, which even after its recent expansion still remains the beating heart of the company.