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A very, very good 4* vintage.
The Colombini Family can trace back to ancestors who were traders and bankers scince 1000AD, In 1352 the family arrived in Montalcino. Giovanni Colombini, born in 1906, was an innovator, a pioneer of the modern viticulture. The opening of the first Italian public wine shop in the Fortress of Montalcino, in 1936, was his idea. The same Fortress was restored during his years as Mayor of the city. He was the one that started the first mail-order selling of Tuscan wines and also the first sales overseas in many markets. He was also innovative in the way of selling hundreds of thousands of bottles for a very high price, changing the future of a wine, from a restricted élite of consumers to a much wider category. The opening of the Fattoria dei Barbi cellar to visitors in the Fifties is one of the first steps to the Wine Tourism. Since the death of Giovanni Colombini in 1976, the Fattoria dei Barbi has been managed first by his daughter Francesca and afterwards by his nephew Stefano. They both developed and expanded the property, making it what you see today.
This is the first vintage since Giovanni’s death to be over seen bt Francesca, and she had a great vintage to work with.
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