Isole e Olena

Isole e Olena is a benchmark Chianti Classico estate in San Donato in Poggio, halfway between Florence and Siena. The property was created in 1956, when Francesco De Marchi united the neighboring hamlets of Isole and Olena into a single estate, set among 56 hectares of vineyards at 300–500 meters above sea level. In 1976 his son, agronomist Paolo De Marchi, took over and became one of the key figures in the quality renaissance of Chianti Classico from the late 1970s onward, focusing on Sangiovese, massal selection…