Dessert Wine

Complex and fresh dessert wine, notes of dried fruit and nut character, delicious with various sweet desserts. The wine has been aged in wood for 36 months

Ruffino was born in Pontassieve in 1877 from the intuition of two cousins, Ilario and Leopoldo. It is their ambition that the wine appreciated in their country can also please those who are not lucky enough to be able to taste it every day and who may live very far away.

It was an immediate and resounding success, built on the goodness of the wines and on the foresight of entrepreneurs in unusual times. The wine of the Ruffino cousins was immediately so popular that in 1895 the gold medal was awarded in Bordeaux for the Chianti Ruffino .

Successes follow each other and already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these successes led to the identification of Ruffino as a synonym of Italian wine in the world via Chianti. These are the years of the birth of a true icon of Italian oenology, Riserva Ducale, which in 1927 celebrates one of Ruffino 's most illustrious admirers, the Duke of Aosta who had chosen this wine to grace the tables of the court of Italy. cover. King.

Riserva Ducale is just one of the traces left by Ruffino in the history of Italian oenology, also marked by the iconic fiasco, the bottle symbol of the entire Chianti category, known in the world thanks to Chianti Ruffino .