Tenuta Maiano was born to realize the owner’s dream of creating an authentic wine following the primordial rhythm of nature. This charming experience starts thanks to Gianfranco Nigi, the “Orchestra Director”, that together with Mauro Araneo and Stefano Nigi, his ”orchestral players”, consolidates his plan day after day.
Ilario Nigi, Gianfranco’s father, got the agronomist degree in 1947, after World War II. He dedicated most of his life studying the best way to revalue the Chianti area. Ilario tought all his knowledge to his son who became an agronomist, too. They started working together in 1976.
Passion and love for Nature brought Gianfranco to develop a very ambitious project: organic agriculture in the Chianti area. The beginning of such an inseparable link between Gianfranco and the ORGANIC world (BIO) dates back to 1984. Gianfranco tested the sustainability of organic agriculture in Montespertoli area exceeding all expectations. In the year 2000 he founded Tenuta Maiano buying the first ha of vineyard and some olive trees in San Quirico, on the top of the hills. The next step was to differenziate the production getting new areas. As a consequence he bought some ha in Scansano as well, where he produces an excellent “Morellino di Scansano D.O.C.G.”.
Nowadays the farming includes 55 ha of vineyards and about 4500 olive trees, spread all around Montespertoli area. The operative structure consists of two cellars one of them used for ferment and storage and the other one, an historical cellar from 13th Century, to age wine in barrels. Thanks to his experience, Tenuta Maiano resolutely rejects the use of modern fungicide products, herbicides and chemical fertilizers, exploiting the ancient agricultural techniques of Chianti area, such as treatments with cupper and sulfur, natural organic fertilization, workings of the ground and organic control of the several parasite insects. These methods, even though more expensive, allow to obtain a natural product with a tasty flavor. Portfolio products of Tenuta Maiano is quite vast because we produce Sparkling white and rosé wines, Red Chianti, Super Tuscany wines a special dessert wine called Vin Santo del Chianti and our special Extra-Vergin Olive Oil.
That of nature are our Divine Rhythms. Tenuta Maiano, another music.