Final Availability for Spring/Summer 2024
Two last minute cancellations have left two much coveted dates open at Villa Palazzetta: June 4-10 (six nights) and July 28 - August 1 (4...
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Ed Riddell
Oct 5, 20233 min read
La Vendemmia (Italian for "the wine harvest")
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...
lisajane4
Aug 22, 20233 min read
Summer in Montalcino.. happy like our vines!!
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,...
Ed Riddell
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Perhaps Our Most Beautiful Spring Ever In Montalcino.
Thunderstorm over Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
Ed Riddell
May 24, 20231 min read
Villa Palazzetta Five Years Later . . .
Villa Palazzetta in 2023
Ed Riddell
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Another Good Reason To Come To Italy In Spring.
In late winter and spring when you buy oranges you can select blood oranges from Sicily. They are called blood oranges, um, because of...
Ed Riddell
Apr 18, 20232 min read
Our New Bambini
When we arrived at the Villa two days ago, our winemaker, friend, gardener extraordinaire and agronomist, Matteo Turchi, presented us...
Ed Riddell
Mar 18, 20231 min read
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
The other day I mentioned that spring was perhaps the most beautiful time of year in Montalcino and Tuscany. First if you come before...
Ed Riddell
Mar 17, 20231 min read
A VERY RARE AVAILABILITY IN TUSCANY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL SEASON.
Because of a very recent cancellation Villa Palazzetta is now available from May 15 to May 28 which is probably the absolute best time to...
Ed Riddell
Apr 29, 20223 min read
A New Cadre Of Young Winemakers Emerges In The Land Of Brunello. Here's One Of Our Three Favorites.
Lorenzo Magnelli is the great grandson of Fiorella Biondi Santi who was Franco Biondi Santi's sister. She had inherited the land from her...
Ed Riddell
Apr 20, 20221 min read
La Santissima Colazione Di Pasquetta In Montisi (and no, that's not really the Pope).
Every Monday the day after Easter there is La Santissima Colazione Di Pasquetta in Montisi, a hill town nearby Montalcino. Loosely...
Ed Riddell
Apr 18, 20222 min read
It's Dawn In Italy (and it's been a long hard night).
Italy is back after two years of Covid lockdowns.
Ed Riddell
Apr 29, 20211 min read
You Can't Believe How Green It Is In Tuscany Now. Here's Why.
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...
Ed Riddell
Feb 14, 20212 min read
Look Who Recently Came To (And Made) Dinner At Our Beautiful Villa.
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...
Ed Riddell
Mar 11, 20202 min read
And Recently Voted One of the Ten Best Restaurants in Tuscany? Our neighbors at Locanda Demetra.
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...
Ed Riddell
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Welcome Home!
We arrived this spring on April 7th after visiting Matera, an ancient town in southern Italy that was just named one of the Cultural...
Ed Riddell
Apr 1, 20192 min read
A Note From Our First Official Guests
In March our first official guests visited Villa Palazzetta. The note they left in our guestbook says it all. But Maryellen, one of the...
Ed Riddell
Nov 13, 20181 min read
Our Ape Calessino
If you been to an Italian hill town then you've seen Piaggios. After WWII Piaggio invented this small engine, three wheel vehicle as an...
Ed Riddell
Oct 26, 20181 min read
Olive Oil - Start to Finish
Another fall means another olive oil harvest. Matteo Turchi our fantastic groundskeeper did a fabulous job with this year's olive crop....
Ed Riddell
Oct 18, 20181 min read
To Elba Under Sail
In October several of took a lovely day trip on a 45 foot sailboat from Portiglioni to Elba. It was a perfect day. We left Montalcino at...
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