BY GIOVANNI SALVIETTI In autumn, when the trees undress themselves, and let their leaves fall, as if they were daughters making light silk dresses for themselves, the olive tree bears its fruits created with difficulty in a long-awaited gestation. Thanks to an ancient process of transformation its liquid gold is distilled: extra virgin olive oil, […]
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The cuisine at Al Ponte restaurant in Gaiole in Chianti expresses an irresistible koinè of Tuscan tradition with exoticism from the Near East. All this thanks to the lucid ambition of Admir and Alma Selimanovic – who also contribute to the management of mother and chef Fata’s Il Celliere in Castagnoli. Their secret? A very […]
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At the Municipality of Castellina in Chianti we meet up with Giuseppe Stiaccini, the city councillor responsible for the Via Romea.
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The Loggia del Chianti is truly a loggia in Chianti. The rosebush at the window says it all, it’s a rosebush at the window of a loggia in Chianti. Patrizia Ermini and Michele Bianco welcome us to this large restaurant, with the familiarity and grace of those who welcome you into their own home. […]
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I met Gordon Breckenridge a couple of years ago, in the Val d’Orcia, at a restaurant. Just by chance, on a day out of time, in the cool shade of a Wisteria, tasting Tuscan specialities. Even then I was struck by his generous sociability and his desire to communicate, typical of an artist who is […]
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Gessica Novelli is waiting for us with her generous smile early this morning in the offices of Nuova Casa Toscana Immobiliare.
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The Poggio Amorelli farm and the Mazzarrini family at the property of Poggio ai Laghi, near Lake Sant’Antonio in Monteriggioni.
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Villa Solissimo is a beautiful place at the entry of the old village of Lucignano, in the municipality of Gaiole in Chianti, Siena.
read more >“It is properly called Albola, a slope known for its vineyards, from which you may get the best wines of Chianti” notes Emanuele Repetti in 1841, in his Dizionario Fisico geografico del Granducato di Toscana. We meet right here, among the highest hills of Chianti Classico, in a townlet that has its roots in […]
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