Company Profile
L' Azienda Agricola Casa di Monte is located between Folorence, San Giminiano e Certaldo. It extends about 80 ha, it has been owned and managed by the family Simoncini for five generations. Its hilly terrain , located between 200m and 350m above the sea level, are particularly suitable for the cultivation of grapevines and olive trees.
With its 40 hectares of vineyards located in the county of Montespertoli and the San Casciano in Val di Pesa, wine production is the main business.
Over the last few years the farm has spent the greater part of its resources for the renewal of the company's wine heritage with a particular focus o native grapes varieties and technological modernization of the vinification and aging cellars, in order to achieve a higher and higher quality level.
Tradition and the innovation merge, both in the vineyard and in the cellar , to obtain wines of character, genuine and typical .
The cultivation of olive tree extends in an area of 7 hectares with about 2000 olive trees that produce a high quality extra virgin oil made from olives harvested by hand using traditional " brucatura" choosing the right point of maturity in order to enhance perfumes and flavors.
Olives are cold pressed the same day of harvest, so as to allow the preservation of their organoleptic properties .
The best olives of the Frantoio and Moraiolo are intended for the production of ' extra virgin olive
" Laudemio ."