Farm experiences

In the bar Il Barrino di Montisi there’s party, and what a party!

Montisi -Il Barrino – Navel of the world

Montisi, this hamlet has only 400 inhabitants, but seems to be the centre of Tuscany. Its heart is represented by the bar called Il Barrino where broker’s from London, billionaires and farmers all have a coffee together

Il Barrino’s success come s from the fact that it authentic, people make friends purely through the pleasure of spending time together. This is a place where you are never alone, where you dress as you like and you can always find some interesting gossip. There’s a mixture of languages, habits, and lifestyles that is the real key to its charm.

Let’s go back a step so as to understand better. Here we are 10 km from Fattoria del Colle south-east Tuscany, in an area where mass tourism does not exist.

He reminds you of a modern Geppetto but he is a master carpenter

Giorgio Romani: carpenter by profession, artist by vocation. His creations in wood can be found in Siena in the quality handicraft boutique called Toscana Lovers

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Siena- Toscana Lovers – creations in wood by Giorgio Romani

The olive wood tells the centenary story of the tree from which it has come from. Hot years, cold periods, lightning, pruning … s series of curved lines which resemble rhythmic music that the artists indulges, turns, hollows until he finds a perfect harmony. This is how Giorgio Romani’s creations are born; he is a young and modern Geppetto who arrives in the Tuscan hills straight from Abruzzo to work with wood. His are pure essential shake, attended to in every detail. Shapes that hide the skill and I might say the virtuosity behind apparent simplicity. For example the bowl is so thin so as to let through the light, while the rim of the soup tureen is chiselled by hand so as to be pleasant to touch.….

Memories of the 2012 Easter

[caption id="attachment_6550" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Zuppa pasqualina of Montalcino"][/caption] A peaceful Easter Sunday between Montalcino and Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda Of this festivity I wall remember dinner on good Friday with Alfredo and Helle Tesio with a wonderful mandarin sorbet, Don Urbano’s great sermon, in the pacche Church in Trequanda and the zuppa pasqualina served at my mothers home in Montalcino. Most of all the worry for the frost on [caption id="attachment_6549" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Trequanda - Santi Pietro e Andrea church"][/caption] Easter Monday, foreste by the weather forcaster but luckily did not take pkace. Seen for you by Donatella Cinelli Colombini   [caption id="attachment_6548" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Schiacciata di...

Let me tell you the Easter traditions at Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda

[caption id="attachment_6544" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Fattoria del Colle - Eco trail di Pasqua in front of the chapel"][/caption] On Easter Sunday the ”Eco Trail di Pasqua” runs through our countryside, it is a race organized by the Comune and the Pro loco in San Giovanni d’Asso. The race passes in front of our crape and is 22 km long. On Saturday the racers arrived covered in mud and breathless after having run along dirt tracks full of ups and downs. On Easter Monday the race is repeated along a circuit dedicated to truffles which is 19 Km longs and starts in and...

The Fattoria del Colle home – restylers at work

New job opportunities in the countryside: landscape designer, home restylers, entertainers ….English names for activities that Tuscan farmers have always done.

Fattoria del Colle - "Imbottigliamento apartment" - Paola and Paolo

And here they are in action, Paolo and Paola the “home restylers” at Fattoria del Colle. He’s a carpenter and gardener and she’s an accountant, but together they are a formidable team. They have succeeded in renovating old furniture and giving warmth and comfort to two apartments in the country inn: Guardia and Imbottigliamento.

The author Romano and the jazz artist Mangalavite at Fattoria del Colle

Gabriella Vittoria Romano and the famous jazz artist Natalio Mangalavite at Fattoria del Colle talk about themselves to the Lions Club Montalcino La Fortezza [caption id="attachment_6360" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Natalio Mangalavite, Gabriella Vittoria Romano - Fattoria-del-Colle"][/caption] An evening out of the ordinary, practically among family, all welcomed by the host Donatella Cinelli Colombini, President of the Lions Club , who offered a traditional Sienese dinner In addition to the club members there was also the Presidente di circoscrizione Luciano Micheli, the Area representative Giancarlo Batignani, the President of the Lions Club di Chiusi Giannetto Marchettini with their companions and Maria Raffaella Lambardi coordinator GLT. Then,...

March 8th 2012 International Women's day in the women's wineries

Granduke's Bedroom - Fattoria del Colle

Donatella Cinelli Colombini‘s wineries are the first in Italy with an all female staff. What better place for a stay dedicated to femininity?

Relax in the countryside between the Crete Senesi and the Val d’Orcia, in a wellness centre which is intimate and welcoming, which recalls Ingres’s odalisques, a dinner with a view over the medieval hamlet of Trequanda, accompanied by Cenerentola Orcia DOC, a wine with a fairytale and feminine name un but hides a woman of great character and determination.

Polenta con friccioli, pecorino cheese and anchovies from Montalcino

Polenta or “Pulenda” as we call it in Montalcino (boiled ground maize) is a typical dish for the cold winter months and especially when it snows because it warms you and gives you energy.

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polenta

During the period when the olives are picked, something that at Fattoria del Colle and all over Tuscany is done manually and lasts from November to January, the polenta was necessary to hearten the pickers, who regardless of the north wind had to go up the ladders and hand pick the olives.

On Saturday march 3rd at Fattoria del Colle a great book and a great jazz

Gabriella Vittoria Romano talks about her book Isole with 4 different stories regarding women, Natalio Mangalavite at at the piano, he is one of the greatest jazz interpreters, and helps us to understand it Read for you by Donatella Cinelli Colombini [caption id="attachment_6327" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Isole-Gabriella Vittoria Romano"][/caption] This short note would like to present the evening of March 3rd at Fattoria del Colle when, at 9 pm in the historic cellar, Gabriella Vittoria Romano will present her book Isole (CDGEdizioni 142 € 13)accompanied by the music of her partner Natalio Mangalavite, a great jazz musician who for 20 years was Ornella Vannoni’s pianist....

Cenerentola a villa for the Charming Prince

Villa Cenerentola is on the highest point of Fattoria del Colle, prom here on all sides one enjoys a wonderful panorama. No factories, or cement, just fields of crops, medieval hamlets, woods, olive groves, and stone farmhouses ….everything has remained unchanged for centuries with an effect of

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extraordinary harmony. In other words a panorama which has a regenerating effect and a silence which keeps the city stress at a distance.

Cenerentola like the DOC Orcia wine, the best from Fattoria del Colle.

Cenerentola just like the little sister left at home to do the house work, who then meets the fairy godmother and marries the prince. And this countryside really is a treasure to be discovered. Far away form the touristic circuits and still unchanged.

Bonella, an old time name for a modern woman

My name – Bonella – is tightly bound to the medieval history of Trequanda, where Fattoria del Colle is found, I work here welcoming guests in the country inn. Bonella or Bonizzella dei Cacciaconti della Scialenga was part of the feudal family o fan immense territory in southern Siena. My parents named me Bonella after one of my mothers Aunts, to whom she was particularly close

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Bonella and Bonizzella's bell

I have carried this name for years practically unknowingly; on the contrary, I bore the name basically suffering it. It was unusual being the suffix of the proper name “ella” easily added at the end of any word, school was a nightmare.

Leg polling songs, rhymes of any sort, and a list of 72 nicknames laid down by my class mates when in college, among which were even some Italian literary quotations (Bonella Pirandella) or Italian football ones too (Bonella Montella).

Snow, wine tourism and wellness centre at Fattoria del Colle

The snowfall blocked Donatella and Antonio Gnassi who per expected at the Wine Tourism Conference but gave Violante great feeling in the wellness centre

Wellness center Fattoria del Colle - snow effects - February 2012

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Never seen a such a snow fall. The road for Fattoria del Colle was completely covered with more than a meter of snow..
In one way it was something to be happy about for the good water supply for the soil after a very
We had here as a guest one of the major world experts in web marketing, Professor Antonio Gnassi from the Middlesex University in London consultant for very important companies and very large events .