Discovery case
(case of 6)

Description

Maddalena Cambi

Maddalena Cambi, (1868-1915) was born to a sharecropper family on the estate and entered at a young age in service of the Antinori family. After the marriage of Maria Antinori with the Prince Aldobrandini and the subsequent transfer in dowry of the estate of Villa Cosmiana to the young spouse in 1891, she was appointed first house keeper of the villa, then co-intendant of the agricultural domaine until her premature death in 1915.  Her name is synonymous with the reputation for high quality agricultural products; in the name of the princess, she obtained a number of prizes at national agricultural fairs especially for the excellence of the table grapes, Colombana for which the Diploma from the Esposizione della Produzione Italiana ed Internazionale was awarded to Donna Maria Antinori Duchess of Brindisi Princess Aldobrandini in 1926.

Her name, Fattoressa Maddalena, has been given as a tribute to a traditional white wine made from selected Tuscan Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes vinified and matured in oak barrels.

Crelio Petrolini

Crelio Petrolini (1928-1979) was the last ‘fattore’ or estate manager whilst still in the ownership of the Princess Antinori-Aldobrandini. Recruited directly by Prince Clemente Aldobrandini before he could finish high school and in spite of the difficulties of the time, he led and oversaw the villa, park and farms maintaining them to the standards of excellence established by Duke Amerigo Antinori and his daughter Princess Maria Antinori-Aldobrandini for over 30 years.

His name, Crelio, has been given as a tribute to a typical Chianti-style wine where the rusticity of traditional Tuscan Sangiovese is refined with a touch of Merlot harvested from the estate.

Principessa Maria

Maria Antinori, Principessa Aldobrandini by marriage (1870-1933), was the daughter of Amerigo Antinori, the administrator of the property of the exiled Grand Duke of Tuscany family. In 1891, her father granted her as dowry the ownership of the Villa Cosmiana estate and its 11 farms. From that time on, she shared her time between Rome where she was living with her husband and her two children and Villa Cosmiana, where during long prolonged summer rest periods she used to gather around her renowned intellectuals and artists of the time and worked to upgrade the agricultural production of the villa’s land in pursuit of excellence. The name Principessa Maria has been given to our Terre di Pisa assembled in a Bordeaux blend from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc grape varieties harvested from the Villa Cosmiana estate.