27/07/2026
Our summer tour continues — rediscovering and retasting our favourite whites.
The Chardonnay Collezione by Castello di Monsanto is not what you’d expect from Chianti Classico country — and that’s exactly the point. Fabrizio Bianchi’s white has always stood slightly apart from everything else the estate does. Grown on the estate’s own vineyards in Barberino Val d’Elsa, precise, restrained, unhurried.
The 2024 is the current release. If you want to understand where it goes with time - swipe left and find the 2005.
The 2024 opens with citrus and white flowers, clean and taut, with a mineral finish that lingers. The 2005, tasted alongside, has moved somewhere deeper — dried fruit, toasted nuts, a richness that only time can build. Two expressions of the same conviction, twenty years apart.