La Velona

La Velona is a Montalcino producer whose modern wine project began in the early 1990s in the La Velona area, between Castelnuovo dell’Abate and Monte Amiata Scalo. An estate interview published by Adega traced wine production to 1993 and the first Brunello vintage to 1998, with Sangiovese Grosso at the center of the estate’s work.

The La Velona name is tied to the historic Castello di Velona property overlooking the Val d’Orcia. The estate today describes a small, parcel-driven vineyard holding around the castle, with Brunello made entirely from Sangiovese grown in Montalcino.

Sangiovese remains the center of the estate’s identity, with Brunello and Riserva offering two ways of interpreting the same Montalcino landscape through longer ageing and selection.