{"id":14596,"date":"2020-07-09T22:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=14596"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:40:45","slug":"roccafiore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/it\/roccafiore\/","title":{"rendered":"Roccafiore Resort: when the Winery Becomes a Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can imagine that the Garden of Eden might have looked something like this. Sunshine illuminating rich green carpets, abundant fruit trees circled by flowering bushes, tomatoes and basil planted together, dialoguing with the flowers and giving way to vines as far as the eye can see. We\u2019re at Roccafiore, a winery in Umbria<\/strong> with a view towards Todi, where the vines meet the highly landscaped garden, inviting us in. For me, gardens are the theme that distinguish Roccafiore wine resort from others I\u2019ve visited.<\/p>\n

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The beautifully landscaped winery of Roccafiore in Umbria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was our first little getaway post-covid-lockdown, and our first trip outside of Tuscany. I\u2019d heard about a unique offering at this wine resort in Umbria: the Wine Chalet<\/strong>. 60 square meters of essential living in a wooden hut on the edge of a vineyard. On the back, a wooden deck \u2013 something I have never seen in central Italy! \u2013 even larger than the footprint of the hut itself, giving on to a well-tended cluster of woods and below that, the wine cellar.<\/p>\n

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The Wine Chalet at the edge of a Sangiovese vineyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is basically my dream home! It\u2019s kind of like cottage living where I\u2019m from, in Canada, except with some designer elements and more wine, less lake (I do miss our cold lakes though). There\u2019s also something in all this wood and simplicity that recalls Northern Italy, perhaps the Alto Adige, and I wonder if this may be somehow because of this Umbrian winery\u2019s unusual connection with the mountainous wine region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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