Monteraponi is a 1,000-year-old medieval hamlet in Radda, Chianti purchased by the Braganti family in 1974, which rose to prominence when son Michele took over in the late 1990s and began estate-bottling wines with the 2003 vintage. Driven by a fiercely traditional, non-interventionist philosophy inspired by Burgundy and old-school Piedmont, the certified-organic estate completely rejects international grape varieties and modern stainless steel. Instead, they farm 100% native Tuscan varieties from high-altitude, limestone-rich vineyards and craft their wines using spontaneous fermentations in concrete vats, extended skin macerations, and long aging in large, neutral oak casks, bottling everything without fining or filtration to preserve the raw, mineral-driven terroir of Radda.