We are a company that has fallen in love with the Tuscan countryside, food, wines, and of course, its people. The country’s landscape of terraced vineyards, rolling hills and lines of Cyprus trees produce a sense of order and tranquillity and extraordinary beauty. The region is still characterised by small family vineyards of whom about 60% produce their own wine. Most of this is sold in local restaurants or wine shops called enotecas.

Many of these wines are fabulous but try buying them in this country and you can’t. Choice is limited in general to one of the large famous estates or from one of the big industrial scale producers. If you try to buy interesting and different wines when in Tuscany, the choice of small vineyards is so great as to be bewildering and almost impenetrable.

This is where we come in. We want to share with you some of the many delicious wines we have found over the years. Many of the Tuscans we know, take a real pride in the food and wine they produce, preferring to stay with tradition and a natural production process rather than to push for volume. Modern equipment is not rejected, merely used as an additional tool in the winemakers fight to maintain their traditional craft and way of living.

We, of course, have our own favourites, but in putting together our selection for you, we also have created a tasting panel in London of professional food and wine experts to guide us on style and value.