Podere Le Boncie

Podere Le Boncie is a small estate outside the village of Castelnuovo Berardenga, whose surrounding hills lie within the Chianti Classico region. Its first vintage was 1990. Giovanna Morganti's father is Enzo Morganti, who appears in the history of San Felice's Vigorello: in 1968 he proposed a 100% Sangiovese, and he worked with winemaker Giulio Gambelli.

• Located outside the village of Castelnuovo Berardenga.
• First vintage: 1990.
• Enzo Morganti, Giovanna Morganti's father, proposed a 100% Sangiovese in 1968.

Giovanna Morganti runs Podere Le Boncie with her husband Giorgio, and it is very much Giovanna who is in charge. The small fermenters in the winery were deliberately designed with her height and reach in mind.

• Giovanna Morganti: in charge of the estate.
• Giorgio: Giovanna Morganti's husband, with whom she runs the estate.

Podere Le Boncie has five hectares of organic vineyard. In Jancis Robinson's words, Morganti's enthusiasm for ancient Tuscan grape varieties, shared by her oenologist father, "led her to plant 3% of seasoning to her rich mix of densely planted Sangiovese vines." The winery is tiny and gravity-fed.

• Five hectares of organic vineyard.
• Densely planted Sangiovese, with ancient Tuscan varieties planted as a 3% seasoning.
• Tiny gravity-fed winery.

Le Trame is labelled IGT Toscana; its vintages include 2015 and 2006. Jancis Robinson shared the 2006 Le Trame with Morganti when it was 12 years old and found it "still very much alive."

• Le Trame, IGT Toscana.
• Vintages include 2015 and 2006.

Morganti's wine is not labelled Chianti Classico; it is sold as IGT Toscana. Morganti is determined to stick to Toscana rather than apply to put Chianti Classico on the labels. "I don’t want to belong. I like being on the outside," she told Jancis Robinson. Robinson has also written that Morganti makes "one of the finest, subtlest, Chianti Classicos."

• Labelled IGT Toscana rather than Chianti Classico.
• Morganti is determined to stick to Toscana.

Jancis Robinson describes Morganti's wines as "particularly delicate, immensely pure, long-lasting, ethereal" and refers to her "pure Sangiovese style." Her wine, aged in large, neutral oak botti rather than small French oak barriques, is in Robinson's words a "hauntingly fresh Tuscan red."

• Delicate, pure, long-lasting and ethereal, in Jancis Robinson's words.
• Aged in large, neutral oak botti rather than small French oak barriques.

Producer site: http://www.leboncie.it/ (contact page only; no citable content). Sources used: https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wines-salon-des-refuss ; https://jancisrobinson.com/articles/chianti-classico-on-a-roll ; https://www.decanter.com/premium/vigorello-tasting-50-years-of-a-tuscan-wine-pioneer-465976/. Last verified 2026-10-12