Entries by Claudia Alfieri

Tuscany Without the Crowds

By DANIELLE PERGAMENT MARCH 2, 2010 IT was a cold, foggy morning in Tuscany, and La Foce, a 15th-century villa that sits on 2,000 acres of rolling fields overlooking the storied Montepulciano vineyards, was eerily quiet. I walked the stone pathways in the manicured garden. Around me, cypress trees creaked, ripe persimmons swayed soundlessly from bare branches and […]