The Winning Story
The Slow Life at Casa al Bosco
What is it about a place that helps you retrieve and relive a memory of a special moment or two in time? The kind of place where you can be exposed to so many wonderful scents in the air if you just take the time to do nothing at all but go for a walk in the morning. With your best friend if possible. Who also grew up on a dairy farm like you and can appreciate the colors of late summer mixed in with the dusty overturned earth as it is being plowed for the next season during the wine harvest. A little bit of terroir in your nose is a great thing. Far away from the vanilla world of corporate offices and cubicles and the constant pings of email, texts, face book updates and people needing something yesterday.
Stopping occasionally to sample a ripe dew covered grape or two that pops in your mouth. Happening upon a colorful grouping of beehives down the road from Villa Casa al Bosco in Abbadia di Montepulciano where we were staying. Sweet honey being made at another vineyard called Il Greppo, where one can also buy and sample wines and rent bikes even if you're not staying in one of their lovely villa homes on the property. Stumbling upon fig and pear trees that were dropping their fruit on the ground, free for the taking if you beat the birds. Stopping to smell the fragrance of the over six foot high rosemary plants that seem to grow everywhere in Tuscany. Finding sweet white . . . Read More
