Barone Ricasoli is the oldest vineyard in Italy and, according to Family Business, a leading American magazine listing world classification of family businesses, Barone Ricasoli is the fourth-largest company in the world, which is still in the same place from the beginning and the second in the wine industry.
The name Ricasoli has been associated with wine since 1141, when the castle of Brolio went into the hands of the Ricasoli family.
The family tree, which is reproduced in a print of 1584, is also one of the first pictures of Chianti. After centuries, which defended the countries and the important feuds, the Ricasoli dedicated themselves to the development of agriculture and vineyards.
Already in the 1600s, the documents on the first exports to Amsterdam and England reported, while at the beginning of the 1900s Brolio wines were known and exported worldwide: China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Guatemala, Costa Rica and the then British African colonies.
Baron Bettino Ricasoli (1809 - 1880), illustren Politiker, Forscher und weitsichtiger Weinunternehmer, war der Förderer des berühmtesten Weines in der Welt heute: Chianti. At just twenty years old, Bettino Ricasoli, known as the “Iron Baron”, began his research and experiments in Brolio, with the aim of producing a high-quality wine in Chianti, able to compete on an international level with the great French wines, the undisputed leaders of the time.
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