WINE wasn't the reason Tony Rocca and his wife, Mira, moved to Tuscany, but fate stepped in when a love affair with a Chianti farmhouse hit the rocks. 'The vineyards called out to me,' says Mira. 'I passionately wanted to bring them back to life and build a winery so they could speak with their own voice for the first time in 600 years.' The results were startling.

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We’d come a long way – from London, where the limit of our agricultural experience had been growing geraniums in window-boxes. We didn’t speak the language, for despite the family name we weren’t Italian.  Our budget was modest, as was our ambition. Having had enough of city pressures, we yearned for fresh air, some sunshine, good food and a relaxed approach to life. Chianti beckoned seductively, and we had an idea…

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