The Tamanti land under Frescobaldi
CastelGiocondo, the Frescobaldi family’s estate south-west of Montalcino, stands in a cadastral section where the Tamanti held about 93 hectares in 1820. Its cellar stands on the old Carrione farm.
The Tamanti years
In the 1820 cadastre the brothers Ermenegildo and Dr. Antonio Tamanti held about 93 hectares in the Castel Giocondo section (parcels 12–27). On the 1820 sheet, the parcels numbered 13–28 around the Carrione farmhouse, where Frescobaldi’s CastelGiocondo cellar stands today, match the Tamanti entries for Castel Giocondo. That match still has to be checked against the owner table, so this is a strong lead rather than a proven identification.
How it left the Tamanti
Not yet known. The land register shows the Carrione farmhouse owned in 1971 by a Rome company, Azienda Agricola Castel Giocondo srl, then by wine companies (Société Viticole d’Italia in 1974, Enoviticola Senese in 1975) and from 1980 by Tenuta di Castelgiocondo SpA. CastelGiocondo was developed in the 1970s by a group of European investors; Marchese Vittorio Frescobaldi worked there from 1972–73, and the Frescobaldi bought it in 1988–89. It is now an estate of about 815 hectares. The Frescobaldi count it among the first four properties to make Brunello in the nineteenth century, the decades when the Tamanti held land there.
Timeline
- 1820 Ermenegildo and Dr. Antonio Tamanti, about 93 hectares.
- 1820–1971 Sold out of the family; seller not yet found.
- 1971–1980 A Rome company, then wine companies; Tenuta di Castelgiocondo SpA from 1980.
- 1988–89 The Frescobaldi buy CastelGiocondo; the same family today.
More on this story: Castel Giocondo in Tamanti Poderi.
Sources
Complete owner-table survey of the 1820 Catasto Generale della Toscana, Montalcino; Regione Toscana and Agenzia delle Entrate map services; Frescobaldi, “Tenuta CastelGiocondo”; Vintus; Identità Golose; Kerin O’Keefe, Brunello di Montalcino (2012); historical land-register extract, Foglio 115, particella 8.
This page is independent family-history research by Palazzo Tamanti, drawn from the Palazzo Tamanti storybook (October 2026). It is not written or endorsed by the winery. All Montalcino winery origin stories · Tamanti family history.