Sensational "La Porta di Vertine" ended its short history in 2016. They could produce only 9 vintages but that was good enough to give big impact to scene of Chianti Classico, and played a important role in the natural wine movement.
Those vineyards had been sold to new owner and they will release new wines soon. Recently we were contacted by that new owner and they asked us if we wish to take heritage stock of La Porta di Vertine. Immediately we grabbed those stock as much as possible. 2006 - 2016 ver.1.0
La Porta di Vertine has ended its short but brilliant history of ver.1.0. Their first vintage was 2006, and we are not sure for the last vintage. The last delivery was 2014 vintage(Rosato). The winery activities had already suspended in autumn 2015, and we received official announcement of closing in spring 2016 finally. This Gambelli inspired Sangiovese winery splendidly impressed natural wine drinkers and producers in these ten years.The last message from La Porta di Vertine"A big hug and a heartfelt thank you to all of our customers, collaborators, friends and all of those who have followed, supported, inspired, criticized and loved us, those who believed in us and helped contribute to the success of La Porta di Vertine.
Thank you to Vertine and Adine. Thank you to the vineyards, the stones, the sun, the rain, the wind, the yeast, the insects, the microorganisms and the mycorrhiza…. and to Ruggero who helped us get along with all of it! Thank you most importantly to Ellen and Dan who made this possible. It went how it went, La Porta di Vertine, as we conceived it, lived it and loved it is closed!!! Now it waits for someone else to reopen it with new ideas and new enthusiasm, we wish the best of luck to them! We did our best and we are very proud of our efforts."
 Best regards from the whole team,
Limited production : only 12,000 bottles of CHINATI CLASSICO, 8,000 bts : RISERVA, 4,500 bts : SASSI CHIUSI, 3,500 bts : ROSATO. The legendary guardian of Tuscany Sangiovese, Guru Giulio Gambelli(He also made SOLDERA, POGGIO DI SOTTO, MONTEVERTINE) took care of La Porta di Vertine in the last stage of his life.
La Porta di Vertine’s was founded in 2006, which is a amphitheater shaped vineyard in Vertine, a tiny ancient hamlet in the Chianti Classico area of Gaiole. Its main interests are to explore the characteristics of Sangiovese by selecting vineyards and soils to exalt and reflect the complexity and longevity of the variety, in order to bring the masterpiece wines to all wine lovers.
Giacomo Masteretta – La Porta di Vertine’s wine maker and director – has his own philosophy of “less is more” and it is being applied throughout the vineyard and cellar, natural is always the best when people have to do as little as possible in a vineyard. The vineyard management produces small, healthy grape bunches and the average yield per plant is one kilo or less of fruit. La Porta di Vertine is also honored to have Giulio Gambelli – Sangiovese’s legendary advocate to be their oenological consultant for the first two vintages 2006 & 2007.
La Porta di Vertine sees its greatest advantage in the Galestro and Alberese (shale and limestone) soils, whose content makes the region – Chianti Classico unique. The estate tends to use natural viticultural method to cultivating high altitude vineyards in order to sustain the landscape and regenerate the environment. The soil’s high stone content stores the heat of the sun and radiates it back to the plants at night, the constant movement of air in these desolate terrains naturally helps in battling with fungal disease. La Porta di Vertine has also experimented with ungrafted vines, which makes the wine more wonderful, intense, rich and full flavored.
The low nutrient content of La Porta Di Vertine’s soils is not seen as a challenge. In fact, it’s the key to the personality in final wines.
The low nutritional soil helps to grow natural yields in low vigor and increase the extract. As a result wines are balanced and elegant, delivering the perfume and freshness of the grape variety, and in time gaining in richness and complexity without losing any of their initial vibrancy. The wines are aged in the traditional Slovenian Oak casks as well as oval Austrian casks and double barrels.
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