January

Dear all,

the year started very well here at Resta, I am now waiting to prune, probably in the next couple of days.

Have been busy with the kids, driving them everywhere, and with a yoga practice I enjoy , with a very good teacher. And am taking guitar lessons, once a week.

Am pretty sure that in a couple of months life here will be a lot more busier. And, sincerely, I can't wait! You know how much I enjoy to entertain.

Am planning some "marketing strategy" - something I need to do even if I "only" produce 4.500 bottles... - decide to which wine shows to go to, still working on the website (seems like a life-long project), and thinking of new recipes for the cooking classes.

We have a very ambitious program for the coming year with my Orcia Consortium: this year we celebrate 10 years, and we are going to organize an event each month. All locally, connected to the regional "festas", as the truffle, the honey, the artichoke, etc.

Am going to send some bottles to a tasting in Genova and one in Milan.

An important italian journalist came last week, up to now I didn't receive anything about what he has been writing, am crossing my fingers.

I just opened a page on Facebook for Martin del Nero. Of course I am very active in my account, Anna Lisa C. Tempestini, let's see what happens with this one. Will I handle to coordinate everything? It is not active yet, I am just working on it, am waiting for Clara to help me.

Someone wrote to me that had a bottle of Martino in New York, in the Italian restaurant named "Maialino". So happy about it.

You may find the wine in Tosca in Washington DC.

Please write to me if you are planning to come to Toscana, if you need help from me.

Would like to post a more sunny picture, but the sky is really grey today!

So, instead, I post a picture taken yesterday: I prepared with my friend Miria the seasoned salt for the season. All organic products, most of them coming from the courtyard.

Anna Lisa