DEPARTURES : Undiscovered Maremma

Tuscany’s Undiscovered Maremma Region

by Tim Jepson

…….. “The summer evening I visit, friends sit around Sandro and Marella’s majestic bronze dining table. The group includes Sabina Corsini, whose 1,000-year-old Florentine family of popes, princes, and Renaissance bankers has long owned estates here. We talk about the changes. “The Maremma has always been considered wild, tricky, inhospitable,” Corsini says. “Its darker side has preserved it. Of course it’s changing, but the region still only attracts discerning travelers, those who love pure and unspoiled country.”

We are drinking wine from the Corsini estate, Tenuta di Marsiliana, where the family has sumptuous houses to rent. Corsini shows me a few lines on the bottle’s label written by her father, Principe Filippo Corsini, which seem to sum things up quite nicely: “Beloved, dulcet Maremma, who could ever say, as once they did, that this is now a bitter land? ……..”

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# 21/06/2011 in In the Press

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