Taste old Tuscan Wines sipping through the history
With wines from the famous Bruni-Scarselli collection
Minimum 6 people; maximum 16 people

This program lasts about three hours and is a unique event each time.
It includes:
- a detailed presentation about the history of wine through various civilizations up to the present
- an introduction to the methods for tasting, serving, selecting, and maintaining wine
- a tasting of the five most important wines of Tuscany: Vernaccia di San Gimignano D.o.c.g., Nobile di Montepulciano D.o.c.g., Chianti Classico Riserva D.o.c.g., “Super Tuscan” I.g.t, and one wine from the biggest and most important collection of Chianti Classico in the world, the Bruni- Scarselli collection, composed of 17.000 bottles with vintages from 1800 until today
The event takes place in the “Palazzo Squarcialupi”, one of the oldest medieval palaces in Castellina in Chianti and location of “Enoteca Antiquaria”.

This absolutely unique program was created tanks to the extraordinary love and passion of Gianfranco Bruni and Roberto Scarselli, two collectors that from over forty years are researching and cataloguing over 40.000 bottles of wine, 17.000 of witch are totally from the Chianti Classico area of production, one of the very best in Italy.

The Bruni - Scarselli collection is the biggest and most complete of the World regarding Chianti Classico wines, including perfectly kipped bottles from the 1800's up to our days.

Because the friendship between Gianfranco, Roberto and Marco Mucciarelli: the Tuscan wine and food Ambassador; the two collectors decided to open some bottles to give other people the opportunity to taste such unique Wines, they wanted also to create a real event every time, and that's way Marco was involved to program and organize this date.

All the people that in the last two years had the chance to participate to this event were surprised about how informative it was the illustrated historical speech and how unique the quality of the
old Chianti Classico wines they tasted.

The presentation and tasting takes place in one of the beautiful medieval Squarcialupi Palace in the historical centre of Castellina in Chianti, a small castle between Florence and Siena in the heart of Tuscany, were the Enoteca Antiquaria is hosted in a ideal space.


Generally the event is reserved to a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 16 people at the time, but if
programmed in advance can be organized to sweet different requests comprehending the tasting of more old wines, or even be part of a long programs like a weekly wine experience in Tuscany.

THE ARGUMENTS:

The vine and the wine in the history
from 5.000 BC
Who invented the Wine?
Gilgamesch - Joursheed – Noè and the ancestral Civilizations.
Greeks as pioneers and expanders of cultivation and production.
Etruscan life stile in terms of wine and food approach.
Romans and the wine sciences.
Wine and mythology
The woman and the wine for Greeks, Etruscans, Romans and in the middle ages time.
The wine and the modern religions.
From the X to the XV century .C..
Wine and Renaissance.
Artists, sculptures, poems and the wine as an inspiration.
From the Renaissance to our days.
The “Mezzadria” (an epoch that characterized the social life in central Italy).
1800: philloxefra, oidium and other parasites problems solved to grow vines in the world.
Methods of maintaining, serving and tasting old wines.
Guided tasting of 4 actual wines.
Guided tasting of one of the Old Wines from the Bruni – Scarselli Collection.