After the lunch, wine tasting and tour of the Vila DellaTorre, we had arranged to go to Villa Mosconi Bertani who make Tenuta Santa Maria wines. Like Villa Della Torre, we had booked the tour before we left Melbourne as these places are only open by prior arrangement. The host of the villa where we are staying said “oh yes, that’s my wife’s aunt’s villa.”
Eighteenth century this time (1735), with a beautiful English garden. In its hey day the family were the centre of cosmopolitan life and people like Rousseau and Byron were guests. The English garden was put in as a kind of fashionable thing at the time and it’s been kept in it’s original condition. More wine tasting, of course.
