Terra & Gusto
January 30, 2017
From Spaghetti westerns to a wine which is a symbol of ‘Made in Italy’. The
entrepreneurial history of the Zingarelli family, of Roman origin and today a
symbol of the Tuscan wine and oil, evokes the myth of King Midas. Italo
Zingarelli’s father bought it in 1973, the Tenuta delle Macie, with 3,200 acres
of vineyards in Castellina in Chianti, after having made a fortune as the youngest
film producer at Cinecittà during the good times. Former stuntman, Italo had
the courage to buy the rights to a western movie rejected by all the producers,
"They Call Me Trinity." And the sequel “Trinity is STILL My Name”
with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, “Trinity Is STILL My Name”, is still today
holds the record for number of tickets sold said Sergio Zingarelli in a press
conference in Rome.
But the Zingarelli family does not stop to live on the
income and proceeds of its acquisitions, even in Castellina in Chianti Tenuta
St. Alphonsus (5,000 acres) and then the Fizzano estate (6,500 acres), a
village of 11th century now tied in with a Tuscan restaurant. And
then new real estate acquisitions in Chianti Classico with the estate's
Tavolelle, and a new winery in Maremma, the Campomaccione estate, with 8,000
acres of vineyards and DOC Morellino di Scansano and bianchista production with
Vermentino of Casamaria Farm (6,000 acres).
Sergio Zingarelli, who also holds the post of chairman of
the Chianti Classico Wine Consortium, declares he is now ready for new
challenges that perceive the quality achieved by the Sangiovese. "We will
provoke the market - he announced - with the bottling of 2014, a difficult year
in which we will do very little but bottle an amazing reserve and will not make
the IGT. We were the first to come out with it" Great Selection "for
the top of the range, 10 thousand bottles of "Sergio Zingarelli." I
am not a fanatic of native grapes but that was not possible with pure
Sangiovese which we can do today. We are witnessing a qualitative accelerated
growth thanks to investments in research, the pruners that we consider them as
real surgeons, investment and consultancy of a local winemaker Lorenzo Landi. A
well-perceived quality in the US market first, followed by Canada and Germany.
From 18 months - has finally matured - we are growing in Italy and drive sales
for high end bottles".
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