Altabella Italian Villas

06/09/2024

Lovely group of friends from St. Louis wrapping up their week at La Quercia, under the oak trees for which the house is named.

It's cooled off and autumn is in the air!

05/05/2024

And now it's May at La Quercia.

28/04/2022

Katharine Michaels' managing director of Altabella Italian Villas wishes to share with you the announcement of her new book.

Strong Ties: Barclay Simpson and the Pursuit of the Common Good in Business and Philanthropy

24/03/2022

Spring at last in the Niccone Valley!

18/03/2022

La Fornace produces just one wine but it's worth the trip to find it!

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On the way up to La Fornace in the hills above San Giustino Rossana told me that the Adreani family were once featured in a Nutella television ad. Perfect, I thought. When we first visited in 2014,…

12/02/2022

Vinsanto and hospitality in an old Umbrian farmhouse It’s such a pleasure, now, to be able to visit with old friends. Rossana and I decided to drop by La Soffitta, known throughout the Upper Tiber Valley for owner Eugenio Bistarelli’s fine vinsanto. Many of you will remember having been to the farm on culinary tours, sitting around his old table on the portico, enjoying Adele’s golden…...

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Vinsanto and hospitality in an old Umbrian farmhouse It’s such a pleasure, now, to be able to visit with old friends. Rossana and I decided to drop by La Soffitta, known throughout the Upper Tiber …

31/01/2022

New life for an ancient property DCIM\100MEDIA A few years ago, Rossana and I had the ambitious idea of writing a comprehensive book about all the wineries in Umbria. We were on our way to a cantina near Lake Trasimeno when, passing near the Antognolla castle, Rossana pointed out over the hills and remarked, “A couple from London has bought all that land and they are creating a vineyard....

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New life for an ancient property DCIM\100MEDIA A few years ago, Rossana and I had the ambitious idea of writing a comprehensive book about all the wineries in Umbria. We were on our way to a cantin…

18/01/2022

26/10/2021

On a recent foodie tour we visited Fernando, the beekeeper, who recommended a stop at the newish cheese shop just across the Tiber from the Abbazia of Monte Corona. Delicious pecorino!

01/10/2021

Andrea and Pilar make “natural wines” Pilar and Andrea Gritti pose on old cement barrels, restored for their wines. During these unprecedented, devastating past two years some local businesses have…

28/08/2021

End of August sunset feast on the loggia of La Pietra, happy campers!

27/06/2021

Now that we're able to travel around, The Wine Girls were eager to check on our friends at local wineries and learn how they've survived the pandemic. Check out this blog about our visit to La Palerna, up north near San Giustino. www.thewinegirls.wordpress.com

06/06/2021

Roses in June at Casa Carina.

06/06/2021

It's June and this is a banner year for roses. We were at the big rose nursery below Assisi, often visited on our garden tours.

29/04/2021

The Passignano ceramics shop on Lake Trasimeno, closer than Deruta if you are looking for Umbrian ceramics. More inside the shop! Then have lunch at one of the nice fish restaurants in town.

02/03/2021

On one of our culinary tours, we stopped in at Il Ghiandaio macelleria in Pieve Santo Stefano, a mountain town north of Sansepolcro.