L'Erta di Radda was born in 2006 when Diego Finocchi, at 24 years old, bought 5 hectares of vineyard from an old farmer in Radda in Chianti to realize his dream of producing his own wine. Diego and his partner Elisa Arretini care for 12 acres of mountain Sangiovese in the wooded hills and steeply graded valleys of Radda, the heart of the Chianti Classico zone. His vines are organically farmed, and with only around 1,500 cases produced per year, we're talking about a genuinely small, hands-on family operation where Diego's fingerprints are on every bottle. 

The name says it all: "erta" means steep slope, and that gradient, combined with high-altitude soils and old vines, is exactly what gives these wines their concentration and brightness.