The Villa Palazzetta wine harvest is a family affair. We arrived at Villa Palazzetta at 10pm on Monday night. It was dark so we couldn't...

It is often thought that Summer in Italy is too hot to enjoy. A lot of the people tend to prefer to come to Italy during Spring and Fall,...

In late winter and spring when you buy oranges you can select blood oranges from Sicily. They are called blood oranges, um, because of...

When we arrived at the Villa two days ago, our winemaker, friend, gardener extraordinaire and agronomist, Matteo Turchi, presented us...

One of our favorite things to do on a spring afternoon is drive the back roads around Montalcino. If we see a little town up on a hill...

Lorenzo Magnelli is the great grandson of Fiorella Biondi Santi who was Franco Biondi Santi's sister. She had inherited the land from her...

Casa Boscherini At Home Restaurant in the Apennine Mountains high above the upper reaches of the Arno River.

Every Monday the day after Easter there is La Santissima Colazione Di Pasquetta in Montisi, a hill town nearby Montalcino. Loosely...

Italy is back after two years of Covid lockdowns.

One of the many reasons we like coming to Tuscany, and especially the Val D'Orcia and Montalcino in spring, is that the rolling hills...

Giada de Laurentiis, Bobby Flay and a big film crew spent a week filming an episode for their new series in September of 2019 (before...

Yes, there is life in Italy.

Our friends and neighbors at Locanda Demetra started their farm-to-table restaurant a few years back. It used to be easy to show up and...

If you've never eaten Bolognese tortellini in brodo you simply must add this experience to your culinary bucket list.

We bought Villa Palazzetta because of its incredible location only five minutes walk from the historic city center. We also bought it...

In March our first official guests visited Villa Palazzetta. The note they left in our guestbook says it all. But Maryellen, one of the...

When we restored Villa Palazzetta one of the things that was on the top of our list was a real wood-burning pizza oven. Fortunately our...

Last October we had our first olive harvest as the new owners of Villa Palazzetta. The harvest took place in late October. We harvested...

Ever heard of Risotto Milanese? Well, here's the real thing from Milan along with a beautiful plate of ripe cherry tomatoes and burrata....