Our Distillery is about people and places
Created by a family that has been in the wine world for two generations. We nestled the whisky production in the heart of Tuscany.
Enrico Chioccioli Altadonna
Master Distiller
Second son of the famous Enologist Stefano Chioccioli, Lawyer and Master Distiller, Enrico has stepped away from his legal career to pursue his passion for distillation. After graduating with honors in Law at the Catholic University of Milan, he traveled to the United States to work in a Bourbon distillery in Brooklyn, NY.
Returning to Italy, Enrico’s enthusiam led him to Conegliano at the E. Cerletti Wine School, where he studied the art of distillation and became a Master Distiller.
Following this experience he immediately decided to cross the Alps to study enology at the University of Bordeaux, the famous I.S.V.V., where he obtained the D.U.I.O. diploma in oenology. Returning home to Tuscany he formally became a lawyer in Florence where he remained briefly before leaving for Cognac, France for another distilling experience.
This experience marked him irreversibly and pushed him to hang up the lawyer’s suit and devote himself completely to his personal project: the creation of Winestillery. After long years of studying and waiting, Enrico opened with his brother Niccolò the first and only independent craft distillery of the Chianti Classico region.
Niccolò Chioccioli Altadonna
Wine Production Manager
Niccolò, the first born son of the famous Enologist Stefano Chioccioli, graduated in Viticulture and Oenology from the same University as his father. Niccolò is the Wine Production Manager of our Family Estate.
With his long viticultural and oenological experience, he has managed the vineyards and the cellar of our Family Estate since the very beginning, following all the delicate phases of the production of our wines, the soul of our spirits that is the foundation of every Winestillery product. All of our spirits come from our wine. Only excellent winemaking can create our extraordinary base spirit.
Niccolò has a strong knowledge of the wine and spirits market. He has traveled to more than 30 fo the United States.
