Castello Pomino

The castle at Pomino was constructed in 1500, and the wines produced from this estate have been garnering acclaim for centuries. Only 20 miles east of Florence, the Pomino area, which takes its name from this estate, is a universe apart from the traditional Tuscan wine growing areas. It is a mountain region, cooler, with twice as much rain as the average in Tuscany, snow in the winter, and a landscape defined by sequoias, firs and chestnut trees – it looks, smells and feels completely different, and is the original and most suited area for white wine production in Tuscany.

In 1716, when the Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici issued a notice recognizing the quality of the wines of four territories in Tuscany, he listed Pomino alongside Chianti, Carmignano and the Val d’Arno di Sopra. This proclamation is widely considered a very early step on the way to the modern DOC classification. The modern history of the estate began in the mid-1880s, when Leonia degli Albizzi, the Burgundy-born wife of Angiolo Frescobaldi built a gravity-fed winery and began growing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay at altitude.