3 Wineries with Good (Wine) Vibes to Discover in 2025

...I believe in a coming year of healing, intention, and good vibes

Hello 2025. Today, I am enjoying a coffee while trying to finish my first post on Substack this year. In 2025, I hope for a year of healing and positive energy after a challenging year health-wise. Embracing soft goals and taking it slow are my mantras for the upcoming year as I begin to heal. I briefly discussed this in a Note here on Substack, highlighting that less is more.

I think that personally as well as in the wine business we could benefit from focusing on the things that matter and less on superficial things and vanity metrics. I touched upon similar topics on my blog two years ago in two different articles:

• one launching a “Drink Differently Challenge” to change our ways and try new grapes and wines to not get stuck with the usual labels and wine regions/styles.

• another article where I gave “3 Compelling Reasons & Solutions To Be Anti-Wine Lists.” This was to discuss how wine cannot be reduced to a number/a score, but is more about history, value, and experience.

Here, I want to continue discussing the importance of the overall impression and experience when visiting a winery. It's essential to feel positive vibes at a winery because these feelings, combined with storytelling, the people, and the overall experience, can enhance the quality of the wines. This heightened experience can encourage visitors to share their enjoyable moments with others, both online and offline.

If you plan to visit a winery in Italy during your vacation, consider what you want from the experience. Even if you only want to briefly visit a winery and taste a few wines, it's helpful to consider whether you want

• a smaller artisanal or midsized winery

• a larger more commercial winery

• see one of the standard, majorly known wineries to say you have been there.

When I get asked to take clients on a wine tour, they know that I only do smaller more intimate tours where I handpick the wineries for an optimal experience. It is important to me that they have an experience emanating good vibes where they feel seen and heard, and where they can interact informally with the wine producer or the winery staff. When you feel connected to and like a winery owner/winemaker, the overall experience becomes much better. Don’t you think so?

Photos of Susanna Grassi during harvest (photo courtesy of I Fabbri winery), Capezzana winery, and one of the vineyard plots at Bulichella winery.

3 Wineries in Tuscany For An Experience With Good Vibes

I have selected three Tuscan wineries of different sizes that I like for their good vibes:

• I Fabbri winery in Lamole, Tuscany, owner Susanna Grassi

  This is a small producer in Lamole, the smallest Chianti Classico UGA (Additional Geographical Unit), making low-intervention Sangiovese wines with the beautiful character of the Lamole terroir. The tasting room, or rather the terrace where they do the tastings and lunches, is located in the medieval Castle of Lamole. Susanna Grassi and her collaborators welcome you and make you feel at home. They care about giving you a unique and down-to-earth wine experience in a rustic environment. Every tasting is an intimate experience where you learn something new.