Luigi Cecchi, a wine enthusiast and expert taster, founded Cecchi in 1893. The family still runs it. The brand went abroad as early as the 1930s, under the second generation.
In the 1960s the family chose Castellina in Chianti as the base for its business, in the middle of the Chianti Classico zone. Today it has five estates, four in Tuscany and one in Umbria. It arrived in Maremma in 1996, when few others were planting there.
Cecchi has also put work into its environmental side. In the 1990s it was the first Tuscan winery to install a wetland system to treat its wastewater, and in 2023 its sustainability management system received Equalitas certification.
Not tasted yet
I haven't reviewed a wine from Cecchi yet. They're on my Top 100 list, which is built from awards.