Hard work planting the vineyards by hand- picking out many tonnes of rocks from the fields and then the slow graft of years of wine harvests has certainly paid its toll on knees. But it has all been worth it, as anyone who has been to Potentino can atest. Anyone who has been to one of our pop-ups around the world (whether in France, Canada, Norway or the USA will know we put a lot of love effort into making our guests feel like they are at Potentino itself.
All of this culminating in a bottle of wine, a restored castle or a simple piece of bread dipped in our own olive oil, a soup made with tomatoes from the vegetable garden.
These are some of the more romantic moments of life in Italy and of course there have been battles to preserve the area beyond Potentino too- whether from encroaching development or just the usual efforts of running a business.