Chiara Condello

Chiara Condello

Chiara Condello was born from the awareness of being a keeper of a wine growing history that was written for hundreds of years in the Predappio hills and by my desire to give a revolutionary interpretation to this unique, generous land.

It is located in the foothills of the Apennines, in the heart of the appellation Predappio, and is characterized by a sedimentary soil called spungone, which is relatively young (three million years old, from the Pliocene epoch).  It contains abundant, intact shells of marine life, often quite large, and is chunky and porous, held together by a calcareous sandstone “cement.” Sangiovese has been deeply rooted in this poor soil for hundreds of years.

Chiara works following a concept: produce a wine that express the high potential of the land, releasing it from all the things that are not essential. She is opposed to anything standardized, so her way preserves all the sources of diversity: organic viticolture, indigenous yeast fermentation, very little temperature control and long maceration, ageing in slavonian oak barrels, no filter before bottling. The results show the nuances and energy that Sangiovese lovers can’t live without!