Azienda Agricola Crociani
Around Toscana, Azienda Agricola Crociani stands for a winery that consistently connects origin and craft.Montepulciano is a hilltop town, and Cantina Crociani tells its story from below street level. The estate describes 10 hectares of vineyards in the heart of the Vino Nobile zone; grapes are worked in a new cellar, but ageing happens in fourteenth‑century underground rooms in the historic centre. Large 15–20 hectolitre casks shape the wines slowly—oxygen as a whisper, not a flavour—so tannins settle into line rather than makeup. The grape set stays resolutely local: Sangiovese as Prugnolo Gentile, supported by Mammolo and Canaiolo Nero.
Crociani notes that most vines sit in the area called “Caggiole”, divided into three blocks replanted between 2001 and 2022, a generational patchwork stitched into one address. Style is shaped through parcel selection, gentle extraction and an élevage that privileges structure over effects.
