An important anniversary for the Montecucco Consortium, renewing its ongoing commitment to excellence, sustainability and looking to the future. Francesca Granelli tells us about it.
The Consortium for the Protection of Montecucco Wines celebrates an important milestone in 2025. 25 years of activity, during which it has been able to enhance an extraordinary territory, rich in tradition and dedicated to quality viticulture. This anniversary marks a quarter of a century of successes, but also of challenges overcome, with an ongoing commitment to excellence, sustainability and innovation.
The positive numbers of the 2024 vintage
During 2024, the Consortium recorded significant results that demonstrate the vitality of the appellation. The 2024 vintage saw a 41 percent increase in grapes delivered to the winery compared to the previous year, from 12,682 quintals to 17,924 quintals. Bottled wine also marked a +10 percent increase, with 5,500 hectoliters of wine in the Montecucco Doc and Montecucco Sangiovese Docg types, equivalent to more than 720,000 0.75-liter bottles. A balance that confirms the growing focus on quality and sustainability, core values for the Consortium.
Giovan Battista Basile, president of the Consortium, said, “The year 2024 is a year that gives us great satisfaction. The growth figures are confirmation that our commitment to quality and a sustainable viticulture model are paying off. We look to the future with great optimism.” .
Celebrations previewed in Florence
The Montecucco wineries, present at the day dedicated to the Other Tuscany during the Toscana 2025 Previews at Palazzo degli Affari in Florence, offered a selection of their wines paired with a specially designed menu at the Cibrèo restaurant.
Cibrèo’s cuisine, under the signature ofExecutive Chef Oscar Severini and Resident Chef Maurizio Corsini, offered its iconic dishes to best express the restaurant’s history, which has been handed down since 1979, with flavors aimed at emphasizing wine pairings.
Dances then opened with theamuse bouche of liver pate on salted dark chocolate, accompanied by a glass of Peteglia’s Montecucco Vin Santo Le Stoie 2015, also rerpopulated in the finale. It continued with “Un insieme di cose buone,” the entrée dish with samples of Tuscan flavors: Crostino with liver and onion pate, Pane bruscato e alici, Sundried tomatoes, Tuscan ham, Pecorino cheese, Herring. An escalation of flavors that required not only pairing with Pierini and Brugi’s Montecucco Vermentino Lillatrino 2022, but also with the two Montecucco Rosso Leremo 2022 and Scarafone 2019 respectively from Villa Patrizia and Palmoletino.
Wines that, along with Tenuta L’Impostino’s 2019 Montecucco Rosso Riserva Impost ino, also served excellently with the Plin Ripieno di Genovese di Bezo brasato lentamente e crema di Parmigiano. A blend of Sangiovese, Merlot and Syrah, vinified in cement and wood, this wine in the glass is extremely elegant. Olfactory notes of cherry and berries, spices, a good sensation of freshness on the palate balanced by a young and excellent tannin.
From plin to tortiglioni timbale
Another representative dish of Cibrèo is the Timballo di tortiglioni, with porcini mushrooms covered “della Nostra Cacio & Burro.” The pairing was with Basile’s Montecucco Sangiovese Cartacanta 2021, Tenuta Pianirossi’s Montecucco Sangiovese La Fonte 2021 and Poggio Stenti’s Montecucco Sangiovese Tribulo 2019 .
The course of guinea fowl leg stuffed with chestnuts and marjoram was excellent, delicate paired with Podere Montale’s Montecucco Sangiovese Riserva La Casetta 2019, Peteglia’s Montecucco Sangiovese Riserva 2019 and ColleMassari’s Montecucco Sangiovese Riserva Poggio Lombrone 2018.
THE MATCHING BOTTLES
