Barbanera

The Barbanera Winery is located in the countryside of Cetona, in the heart of Tuscany, almost on the border with Umbria. The estate was founded in 1938 by Altero and Maria Franceschini with the desire to create a small farm dedicated to viticulture. After more than eighty years, Blackbeard has been able to preserve a family dimension, jealously guarded for four generations, who have succeeded one another at the head of the estate, passing on knowledge, experience and love for the land. From the sale of wine on the local market, to the first commercial contacts with the reality of the Roman restaurant at the beginning of the adventure, we moved to a national and then an international dimension of the company, which today is successfully present on numerous foreign markets. A progressive process of growth and evolution, which led in 2007 to give the name of Blackbeard to the family business, to make it a brand with its own precise identity. The estate extends at the foot of Monte Cetona, with vineyards cultivated on splendid sunny slopes, characterized by the presence of soils very suitable for viticulture.

The philosophy of the winery has always had as its objective the production of quality wines, capable of enhancing the best excellences of the territory. The great passion and the desire to always improve, have led the company to undertake a virtuous path to try to offer wines that are increasingly authentic and capable of expressing the best qualities of the vines and the territory. The cool climate and good altitudes, which guarantee good temperature variations, allow the grapes to ripen slowly and progressively, accumulating a rich set of aromas and aromas. Today the company offers three different collections of wines, distinguished by different brands, with labels that come from the Tuscan estate and Puglia. The family collection collects the best labels of the estate, the most prestigious and identifying wines, the result of the best vineyards grown in the Cetona area. The “Barbanera” line was born in 2007 to celebrate the strong bond between the Franceschini family and the most ancient traditions of territories that have always been suited to viticulture such as the Chianti Classico area, the Nobile di Montepulciano and the great Apulian wines. Finally, the Duca di Saragnano line was created to commemorate the family bond with the noble family from the hinterland of Salerno, who settled in Tuscany. In this collection are collected the labels that come from Tuscany, Puglia and Sicily, characterized by a frank and typically territorial profile.