The Ribusuoli  Estate: A Dream Come True

This story begins a few years ago, when two British travellers, enchanted by Tuscany, it’s people, history and landscape, left London and arrived in the country to the south of Siena, in search of a dream to fulfil. ​Their determination was to look for a place in and about which they could dream, a magical place where tradition, the beauty of the land, and the subtle taste of memory could come together, where they could make wine and oil aplenty – the old, long-living fruits of the earth and the hard work of humankind. 

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Their journey, among all possible destinations, brought them, naturally, to Montalcino and its surroundings, whose wine-growing and producing vocation is well renowned and indisputable. But what did the two travellers on this new and improved Grand Tour desire? The Estate should be in one bloc with the land surrounding it’s farmhouse, in the best Tuscan farming tradition (a building, non renovated, with fields and housing). They needed perfect exposure and land suited for growing grapes and olives. Such cultivations, however, should not be already planted, or should be only minimally, because they would be organized according to a precise design, a global, organic project. The size would be about 50 acres. 

Nevertheless, reality is often different from our imagination, for it can be influenced by the poetry and magic of the land: the most important thing is learning to listen and understand what it tells us. Thanks to a series of fortunate events, the two travellers found what they were looking for along the road between Montalcino and the village of Castelnuovo dell’Abate, just a stone’s throw from the Carolingian Abbey of Sant’Antimo. They knew how to listen, then, to what these lands were whispering through the wind; they knew how to find the beautiful views of the landscape and catch the glimpses of colours that change with the seasons, with their infinite hues and shades. At last, they found themselves inebriated by the scent of nature.​