IL COLLE
IL COLLE

IL COLLE

The Cellar, our home

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IL COLLE

IL COLLE

The Land, our life

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Wine, our passion

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MONTALCINO 1972

BREATHE BRUNELLO AIR

My name is Caterina Carli, and I was born in the same year as il Colle. My job is to make wine, but my passion lies in the vineyards. I dedicate most of my work to the vine itself, as I am convinced that everything depends on a healthy birth, followed by the most natural care throughout the growth phase. I really like Sangiovese, even more so in its typical Montalcino variety. It never fails to pay back the attention it received by giving me a Brunello that can stand the test of time with harmony, balance, elegance and intensity.

  • L'Acqua Buona

    "Caterina Carli shuns the Montalcino media circus, she has her own ideas but sees well to keep aloof. Let's say she shuns the media circus tout court, and the limelight."

    - Fernando Pardini, 2022

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    “A safe address for all classic-style lovers. These wines are the result of patient ageing in large barrels of 50 and 30 hectoliters. There is no such as thing as filtration and the use of sulfur is very low”

    - Slow Wine, 2019

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    “Great simplicity, sincerity, and rigour are the first words that come to mind when summarising the production management of the company run by Caterina Carli, who, a couple of decades ago, took the helm of the estate purchased by her father in 1972. This small winery is capable of yielding some of the most sincere expressions of the Montalcino area. These wines have personality, character, territorial soul.”

    - Slow Wine, 2017

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    “Caterina is the true soul of the company. Whenever she talks about her wines, she looks clearly driven by enthusiasm. The wines are produced according to the ancient Montalcino traditions: only the utmost respect for nature, and the ability to adjust to it in every phase, allow for the production of grapes capable of expressing the land of origin”.

    - Slow WIne, 2014

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    "Caterina is able to fully exploit the aromatic refinement offered by the territory, followed by minimal, non-invasive after care techniques, acquired under the tutelage of her historical consultant Giulio Gambelli."

    - Nettari Etruschi, 2011

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    “We certainly cannot deny the straightforward and direct personality that constantly emerges from Caterina Carli's Brunello.”

    - Gambero Rosso, 2012

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    “In the cellar, we work in the most traditional of ways. Sangiovese is left to age in large oak barrels after a slow fermentation and maceration process.”

    - Slow Wine, 2011

  • WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

    “Caterina Carli has long accustomed us to wines of extreme truthfulness in representing the characteristics of her specific terroir.”

    - Vini Buoni d’Italia, 2009

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The world in a Bordeaux bottle

WINES

Giulio Gambelli has been the guide and inspiration behind the wines I produce. The simplicity and naturalness of his way of living and working have always accompanied me, along with the belief that making a good wine requires a few, simple rules: hard work in the vineyard, time, passion and cleanliness.

Our days

LOGBOOK

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