permeability, pebble content and wealth of trace elements ensure the vine’s vegetative balance and characterful wines.
There is also a considerable amount of “alberese”, a very compact rock typical of the central and southern parts of the designated zone.
Chianti’s climate is continental, with fairly cold winters and scorching heat in summer. The day-night temperature fluctuations in the vine’s period of vegetation and grape ripening are significant.
Annual precipitation is about 700-800 millimetres, most of which falls as rain in the late autumn and spring.

As a result, the grapes often ripen under water stress. By virtue of its elevation and aspect, Lamole makes up for most of that lack of precipitation with generally cooler temperatures with respect to the valley floor, better ventilation, more hours of sunlight but without a higher temperature sum, and a final stage of grape ripening in the latter half of September and early October that takes place in ideal weather conditions.
The vast potential for territory expression at Lamole is backed up by the significant effort of clonal selection that has been carried out on the estate over the years. Some of the best clones of sangiovese come from the area, above all the Sangiovese Lamole clone, also known by the reference code R10.