Le Stanze Del Poliziano Toscana I.G.T.

Producer history

Poliziano was founded in 1961 when Dino Carletti bought an initial 22 hectares around Montepulciano, driven by what the estate calls "a romantic vision for his native land and its centuries of wine tradition." The name honours Angelo Ambrogini, the fifteenth-century humanist poet from Montepulciano known as Il Poliziano; Le Stanze takes its name from one of his works. Dino's son Federico Carletti, trained in agriculture, took over management in the late 1970s and remade the business as an estate winery, expanding holdings to 170 hectares across Montepulciano, Montefollonico, Maremma and Cortona. Key expansions followed in Maremma in 1997 and Cortona in 2000, with a temperature- and humidity-controlled ageing cellar built in 2005. Since 2019 the third generation, Federico's son Francesco Carletti, has acted as an adviser to his father, joined by Maria Stella in 2021. The estate has made certified organic wines from the 2021 harvest onward, after eliminating chemical weeding and insecticides.

Signature pairings

• Bistecca alla Fiorentina, rare, with olive oil and salt — A char-grilled, rare T-bone is the standing Tuscan partner for a structured Cabernet: the fat and rendered protein soften the tannin while the grill char meets the wine's oak.
• Roast rack of lamb with rosemary and garlic — Lamb and Cabernet Sauvignon share a herbal-savoury register, and the meat's fat carries the wine's firm tannin without dulling its dark fruit.
• Grilled beef salad with lime, shallot and chilli (ยำเนื้อย่าง) — The grilled beef and herb component suit a Cabernet-led red, but only in a version made mild; the lime acidity and any real chilli heat will sharpen the wine's tannin and strip its fruit, so ask the kitchen to hold the chilli.