... and the Chianti grows in Rùfina just a few kilometers east of Florence. The Chianti Rùfina Docg area stretches amidst Romanesque churches and XI century tower houses, priories and Medieval castles with underground cellars, old fortresses long transformed into comfortable country homes, luxurious XVI century villas and charming hamlets surrounded by cypress trees and olive groves that dot the gentle hills. The vineyards produce a young Chianti that boasts a long tradition: in 1716 the grand duke Cosimo III de'Medici drew the boundaries of this, one of the finest of four wine producing areas in Tuscany, because "only the high hills of Rùfina yield a long-lived, full-bodied and aristocratic wine".

The Galiga and Vetrice estates are owned by the Grati brothers and extend over an area of 562 hectares, on the hills between Pontassieve and Rùfina, and one hundred are dedicated to vineyards. The family's bonds with the land are deeply rooted, so deeply that they have even affected its morphology, with two lakes they created: Galiga and Vetrice. The landscape, with its vineyards interspersed with twelve thousand olive trees and cypresses towering over the hills, is typically Tuscan. The soil is fertile and clayey, with an eastern exposure it enjoys a dry, ventilated climate to produce outstanding grapes: Sangiovese, Canaiolo, and Colorino along with Malvasia, Trebbiano, Cabernet and Merlot.