The Lamole di Lamole estate is located in Grave, in the Chianti territory in the Florence province. Its cultivated territories are all located in the Chianti DOCG area.
The company has 140 hectares among wood, vineyards and olive groves. The area intended to the grapes is 50 hectares with the vineyards located 350-550 meters exposed at south and located in one of the most interesting place in Lamole. The density is 3350 trees for the old ones and 5150 trees for the new implantation. The cultivation methods are the “archetto chiantigiano”, the cordon spur pruning and some little experiment with trees for the Chianti.
Since always the company had been careful in the use of the vineyard and the cellar to exalt the characteristics of the wines. The cellar and the production area allow the functional vinification of the grapes and the ideal maturation of the Chianti Classico basic and riserva, of the Lam'Oro and the Vinsanto by using working methods which exalt the phenolic and aromatic potential of the grapes picked with some specific technics during the working of the wine.
Territory
The Lamole di Lamole estate is located in the Grevi hamlet in the Chianti territory on a natural terrace which dominates the valley of the Greve torrent; an upland opened in the south-west side and it is protected in the north-east by the San Michele mountain a natural protection from the cold winds coming from the north while the opening on the west side exposes this area to the warm winds coming from the Tirreno sea.
We are located in the core of the classical area in the boundaries between the Florence and Siena province where the soils have Eocene origins composed by sand rocks and sand of the bedrock in particular marl that for its structure is easily friable on the surface and for its permeability and the presence of stones and nutrient microelements, the soil has a good vegetative balance and gives a remarkable character to its wines. It is very present also the limestone a compact rock characterizing of the middle-south Italy.
