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The Veloria estate house on the slope, with guests walking the flowering rows below the vineyard.

VeloriaEstate Winery

Four wines, and no plans for a fifth.

One red for the table, the riserva the house is known for, a white to drink young, and, only in the years that deserve it, a wine from the oldest vines. All four come out of the same cellar, made by the same family at the same pace.

The four Veloria wines painted in a row against red and olive brushstrokes, from the left: Rosso, Bellandi Riserva, Luna Bianca and Vecchia Vigna.

  1. Veloria Rosso

    2021 · Sangiovese · Merlot

    Red fruit, cherry, dried herbs, soft vanilla.

  2. Bellandi Riserva

    2019 · 100% Sangiovese

    Cherry, tobacco, cocoa, cedar, spice.

    The flagship. Thirty months in oak, then at least a year in bottle before it leaves.

  3. Luna Bianca

    2023 · Trebbiano · Malvasia

    Pear, citrus, white flowers.

    The estate’s only white. Picked early, pressed the same morning, never near oak.

  4. Veloria Vecchia Vigna

    2016 · 100% Sangiovese

    From the oldest part of the estate, where some vines are over sixty. Not made every year.

Tenuta Veloria

Forty-two hectares, bought in pieces.

Seven hectares in 1978, an old stone cellar, and no money for modern production. The other thirty-five arrived one parcel at a time, over the decades that followed, and the map still shows it: the parcels are where the family could reach them, in the order they could be paid for.

A painted aerial map of the estate: vineyard parcels in bands of green, the pale roads between them, and the family house with its tower near the centre.
Tenuta Veloria, Siena, Toscana, Italia.

On the grounds

  • The family house1892
  • The cellar1978
  • The vineyards42 hectares
  • The tasting room
  • The restaurant
  • A small guest hotel
  • The olive garden
  • A cellar of collector wines
Two people working down a row of vines, cutting bunches into baskets by hand.

The family

Four names on the same slope.

Matteo’s father farmed this ground when there was no label on the bottle and no bottle to put one on. The house dates from 1892, the cellar from 1978. Everything since has been the same family, waiting in turn.

“I don’t want to make the most expensive wine in Tuscany. I want to make one we’ll still want to drink in twenty years.”

Matteo Bellandi, 1948–2019
The tasting room: two people at the long wooden table, shutters thrown open on the hills beyond.

Visiting

Come up the hill and stay for the afternoon.

Open to visitors from spring through harvest. Tastings are poured at one long table with the shutters open, and nobody is hurried back down the hill.

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  • The tasting room
  • The restaurant
  • A small guest hotel
  • The olive garden
  • The cellar, 1978
  • A cellar of collector wines