THE CHARM OF FARMING TRADITIONS: ANTIQUE AGRICULTURAL TOOLS
AT FATTORIA DEL COLLE, NUMEROUS OBJECTS TELL THE STORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE’S PAST AND OF THE OLD-TIME WINEMAKERS WHO – WITH GREAT TTALENT BUT LIMITED RESOURCES- CREATED MASTERPIECES. By Donatella Cinelli Colombini, winedestination, Fattoria del Colle (Trequanda), Casato Prime Donne (Montalcino) Let me start by saying this: I believe in technology and machinery serving nature. I have weather stations in my vineyards, I use an optical sorter to discard imperfect grapes during the harvest, and I use a peristaltic pump to move the wine—a piece of equipment originally designed for blood transfusions that is so gentle it is even used in fish...