Wines
Guicciardini Strozzi
Tuscany (San Gimignano)
The Guicciardini Strozzi estate can boast over 1000 years of history; their most important vineyard, Villa Cusona, is dated 994. The famous personalities and the political and economic influence of the Strozzi and Guicciardini families, linked at various times by blood relationships, have left their mark not only on Tuscany, but also on Italy and Europe. Another famous ancestor is Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, better known as “La Gioconda” or “Mona Lisa”, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, and whose family is still represented by the fifteenth generation of descendants. More on the family history.
Around 1850 the construction began of the great wine cellar with underground galleries. At the beginning of the 1900s Francesco Guicciardini, the husband of Luisa Strozzi, Mayor of Florence, Minister of Agriculture and then of Foreign Affairs (1906 – 1909) made Cusona a model estate of national importance.
The current owners are Count Robert Guicciardini and Prince Girolamo Strozzi, assisted by the latter’s wife and by his daughters Natalia and Irina. For decades Prince Strozzi has been President of the Syndicate of Vernaccia, as well as the tireless promoter of this DOCG, the first white wine in Italy to obtain this recognition. He pursues with equal energy the long tradition of a family whose name is intrinsically linked to San Gimignano, in particular to Cusona.
