Horticulture

The orchards (pomaria) bring together a selection of ancient native fruit trees threatened with extinction, retrieved by the arboreal archaeologist Isabella Dalla Ragione: Pera Monteleone, Pera Briaca, Mela cul di Somaro, Ciliegia Bianca o Limona, Ciliegia Bella d’ Arezzo , Cotogna Maliforme, Mandorlo Mandolino, Pesca Sanguinella, Pesca Cotogna Settembrina.

The vegetable garden (hortus) separates the pre-Columbian cultures from those imported from the New World. A “didactic” gesture to show, with a single vision, the great gastronomic and growing difference represented by plants that are now considered as always present in our fields (tomato, potato, beans, corn …). Obviously, the vegetable garden production is destined to supply the pantry and the menu of the restaurant of the estate.

In the Herbarium (Herbaria) we grow aromatic and medicinal herbs, which are destined both for teaching and to the dishes of the restaurant.

Even the small vineyard trained with the vine grafting system – a practice of Etruscan origin using a living tree (usually an elm) as a support – has been conceived as a garden. It is a “section” of the typical landscape of this land, shaped by vineyards cultivated in a “mixed” way, a trace of an ancient time that will produce grapes destined to an ancestral vinification in earthenware wine jars

The Etruscan caves located under the new winery represent, together with the “grafted vines”, the history of an ancient Etruscan rural civilization, populating the area between the two Etruscan cities of Orvieto and Chiusi, as witnessed by the findings along the Clanis river. One of the three caves is particularly interesting because it underwent a lot of transformations during the centuries: in the Nineteen Century it was a peasant cellar, used until half of the Twentieth Century.