The Rise of Villa Cerna
~ Aerial Shot of Villa Cerna ~ It’s a shame that if I asked someone to name the top 5 or 10 producers of Chianti Classico, they’d likely not think of including Villa Cerna in the list. Fortunately for you,…
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~ Aerial Shot of Villa Cerna ~ It’s a shame that if I asked someone to name the top 5 or 10 producers of Chianti Classico, they’d likely not think of including Villa Cerna in the list. Fortunately for you,…
Continue reading~ The Entrance to the Ancient Strozzi Cantina ~ Tenute Guicciardini Strozzi is nestled against the rolling hills of San Gimignano. Owned by the Strozzi family, the estate is now run by Principe and his daughters. Interestingly, research the family…
Continue reading~ Ancient Cellars at Sartori ~ Food and wine are inextricably linked in Italian culture and so too here at TuscanVines; for it was that marriage, that cultural underpinning that is an absolute certainty, that helped give birth…
Continue readingTerrabianca….the “White Land”….. First mention of this estate can be found in documents dated as early as 1085, but it wasn’t until the 20th century when roots took hold for what we now know as the Terrabianca estate. …
Continue readingIn 1981, Swiss couple Brigitte and Bruno Widmer fell in love with Tuscany and what was the dilapidated Brancaia estate and its vineyards, located in picturesque Castellina. It’s hard to imagine such fine vineyard land being abandoned, but the estate…
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