La Vendemmia (Italian for "the wine harvest")
The Villa Palazzetta wine harvest is a family affair. We arrived at Villa Palazzetta at 10pm on Monday night. It was dark so we couldn't...
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lisajane4
- Aug 22
- 3 min
Summer in Montalcino.. happy like our vines!!
It is often thought that Summer in Italy is too hot to enjoy. A lot of the people tend to prefer to come to Italy during Spring and Fall,...
Ed Riddell
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Perhaps Our Most Beautiful Spring Ever In Montalcino.
Thunderstorm over Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
Ed Riddell
- May 24
- 1 min
Villa Palazzetta Five Years Later . . .
Villa Palazzetta in 2023
Ed Riddell
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Another Good Reason To Come To Italy In Spring.
In late winter and spring when you buy oranges you can select blood oranges from Sicily. They are called blood oranges, um, because of...
Ed Riddell
- Apr 18
- 2 min
Our New Bambini
When we arrived at the Villa two days ago, our winemaker, friend, gardener extraordinaire and agronomist, Matteo Turchi, presented us...
Ed Riddell
- Mar 17
- 1 min
A VERY RARE AVAILABILITY IN TUSCANY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL SEASON.
Because of a very recent cancellation Villa Palazzetta is now available from May 15 to May 28 which is probably the absolute best time to...
Ed Riddell
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
What I Did Last October At Villa Palazzetta During Our Mandatory 14-Day Self Quarantine
This video is made from 39 still images selected from more than 500 cloud photos taken during our 14-day Covid self-quarantine at the...
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
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Yes, There Is Life In Italy. And Our Garden Is Living Proof Of That. Thanks To Matteo And Lisa Jane.
Yes, there is life in Italy.
Ed Riddell
- Apr 23, 2019
- 2 min
A Birth In The Family
We bought Villa Palazzetta because of its incredible location only five minutes walk from the historic city center. We also bought it...
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....
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