If you like good coffee, as I do, the brandname Illy must be familiar to you. Last August, during a concert given in Tuscany by Mark Springer, I was introduced to Francesco Illy, a member of the Italian family who founded the now internationally renowned Illycaff\u00e8 company.
\u2013 I would love to visit your winery, I told Francesco. Do you think it would be possible?
A beautiful abbey, by the way. Worth the detour if you happen to be in the area.
Last but not least, Francesco and his architect son have finished building a spectacular round-shaped cellar called the Golden Cellar. This project required 7 years of careful planning, and building the structure took 4 years and 750,000 bricks made of natural mortar. The circular cellar is sort of embedded in the hill, and a ramp goes from the top, where the harvested grapes arrive, down to the bottom, where the wine is left to age in old casks \u2013 so that no mechanical pumping is necessary to transport the wine: gravity takes care of it!
Katharina All\u00e8s Trauttmansdorff FOUNDER OF TRUST & TRAVEL<\/p>\n\n
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