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ENVIRONMENTS
TERRACE
The terrace is located on the top floor of the winery and was designed to have the functions of a threshing floor, that is, threshing and drying grains and legumes before their storage in wooden barrels or underground barns in the past and in sacks today.
CELLARS
Created after the purchase of the Farm, they consist of two main bodies:
– The tunnel dug in 1870 in the sandstone under the village of Vico, where wines destined for the reserve rest in 350-l and 500-l barrels of Allier oak. The natural humidity conditions and low temperatures guarantee the ideal environment for the aging of wines.
– the winery, erected in 1920 by Marcella Guicciardini to consolidate the hill on which the farm center stands. It currently houses the steel vats for refining and assembly, the bottling plant and on the upper floors the bottled warehouse and the granary.
GARDEN
A small eden in which flowering arbors, aromatic plants and fruit trees follow one another in a play of scents and colors.
A colony of completely self-sufficient tortoises has resided there for more than fifty years, animating it from spring to autumn while in the colder months they spend their hibernation in underground burrows.
From the garden there is a splendid view of the Valdelsa, over which the towers of San Gimignano proudly stand guard.
NOBLE VILLA
On the upper floors of the Fattoria, located at the southeastern end of the village of Vico, is the noble apartment, where the patrician families who owned it lived.
We invite you on a journey back in time to relive the environments of Tuscan aristocratic society.
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHAPEL
A smaller room leads to the heart of the house, accessed by a tiny and prodigiously frescoed chapel.
The work of an excellent seventeenth-century painter, Giovanni Mannozzi da san Giovanni, it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and episodes from her life, portrayed in six larger frescoes and others of smaller dimensions.
The landscapes depicted have a strangely familiar air about them; in fact, it is localities in the surrounding area that frame these sacred images.
EX-FRANTOIO
In the foundations of the farm center is a large vaulted room that from time immemorial until the 1970s served as an oil mill.
The 19th-century wooden press, built by the family of carpenters who for three consecutive generations provided their services to the Farm, is still present. In the mill there are also elements of more modern systems of decanting and mechanical separation of the oil from its aqueous component, while the millstones have been dislocated and used for aesthetic purposes outdoors. Today this room is used as a tasting room and has been equipped with an understated and cozy decor.
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