Only A Few Weeks Still Open For Booking in 2023.
We've had a wonderful response to our 2023 booking announcement. Only the first half of April and the first half of August 2023 are still...
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Ed Riddell
- Aug 16
- 1 min
We Are Now Accepting Reservations for 2023!
I don't usually put items in this blog that can be construed as "promotional." However we have experienced such an outpouring of demand...
Ed Riddell
- Apr 29
- 3 min
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 21
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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 14, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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...
Ed Riddell
- Sep 16, 2018
- 3 min
Palio, August 2018 - Lupa wins! (And we were there.)
When Lee and I went to Montalcino this last August, we had a job to do. We had to photograph our newly finished Villa Palazzetta for the...
Ed Riddell
- Feb 6, 2018
- 1 min
Our First Olive Harvest
Last October we had our first olive harvest as the new owners of Villa Palazzetta. The harvest took place in late October. We harvested...