Petrolo

Petrolo is an organically farmed estate in Valdarno di Sopra, on the southeastern edge of Chianti Classico between Florence and Arezzo. Once part of the medieval Galatrona fief, the property is marked by a historic tower and a villa built in the early 1700s by sculptor Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. The Bazzocchi‑Sanjust family acquired the estate in the 1940s, but it was from the late 1980s onward—under Lucia Bazzocchi Sanjust and later her son Luca Sanjust—that Petrolo shifted decisively toward low‑yield, terroir‑dr…