>> some 40,000 tourist as year visit castello di brolio and many come as much for the wine tasting as for the art and history. >> i think that if he would taste our wines today he would be nicely surprised. >> to say nothing of pleased that his family castle is still in the family, still dominating the wine country of tuscany. >> allen pizzey, cbs news, castello di brolio, tuscany. >> axelrod: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, 48 hours, for now i am jim axelrod in new york and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us. and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

with a toast and if you want to use chianti that ala allen pizzy has just the place for you. >> after champagne chianti is probably the best known wine in the world and castello di brolio in tuscany is where it was invented. baron francesco ricasoli owns the castle and the brand. >> wine is a beautiful thing and it is something that for our culture it has been almost paired with the food. >> in the centuries bc, before chianti, wine filled a more fundamental role. >> it is something to be meant in drinking during the day, together with onions, a big piece of bread, lettuce and tomatoes and so on, it was a sort of a little bit of fuel for the daily working. >> the man who chased it was san giovese, known as the iron barohn, by instruments by today's standards are almost primitive, his intelligence elect, curiosity and drive have the added incentive of necessity, in the early 19th

necessity, in the early 19th century the family and the castle they owned since 1141 had fallen on hard times. >> he was very smart, because he practically rebuilt the same, game and success of this house, and of its wines. >> a combination of the soil, the climate and the notoriety of the grape came together in what is still an ongoing process. >> gio stress is a very sensitive grape and not only in the vineyard but in the cellar. >> they are all made from different type of oak, filled with the same wine to see how it reacts and ages. >> chianti fills what is called amid range role, not a fine vintage to be aged and kept waiting for some undefined special moment. >> i almost hate to see the dust on the shoulder of the bottle, it means it has been standing there too long. >> some 40,000 tourist as year visit castello di brolio and