Rosso di Montalcino | San Guglielmo

San Guglielmo

The world of wine is rich with stories: stories of people, places, and spaces that intertwine, sometimes guided by intent, more often by chance. The story of Cantina San Guglielmo carries the powerful narrative of events that, over the centuries, seem disconnected, but are not. In the western quadrant of Montalcino, there is a parcel known as Il Chiesino. Here lie the rows of San Guglielmo's Sangiovese, a single vineyard of just one and a half hectares, gently stretched out on a slope entirely surrounded by oaks and holm oaks. In its simplicity, it is breathtakingly beautiful. Ilaria Martini runs the winery with the help of her father and husband and has decided to start bottling only in recent years, after a long period of winemaking and grape supply.

Montalcino

Montalcino is an area covering 24,000 hectares, of which only 15% is occupied by vineyards. The hill of Montalcino has numerous pedological environments due to its formation over different geological eras.

The soil becomes richer in skeleton while the active layer reduces, as these soils are formed from the decomposition of original rocks. The climate is typically Mediterranean, generally dry, but also with continental characteristics due to its intermediate position between the sea and the Central Apennines.

The presence of slopes with different orientations, the marked modulation of the hills, and the difference in altitude between valley areas and the higher territory create very different microclimatic environments, even in areas very close to each other. The most common training system in the vineyard is the spurred cordon, obtained through short pruning of a variable number of spurs.