Starting on foot from our villa, walking for about half an hour on dirt roads, you can reach “Tenuta Monterosola” a farm that produces high quality wines, here you can visit the modern winery and then taste the wines produced by their.
The Monterosola vineyard is 430 meters above sea level and faces south, the soil is composed of fertile clays and various minerals. In the hot months, the soil forms a hard crust on the surface, which protects the soil from a excessive evaporation of moisture. These conditions, similar to those of Montalcino, are optimal for cultivation.
Continuing for another 200 meters is Podere Grignano, this family-run farm produces wine for the meal that sells bulk and olive oil of superior quality.
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Continuing uphill cypress avenue, you will encounter some lodges until you reach the villa of Pignano, at this point you can go to a small road on your right that will take you into the forest with the old quarry into disuse (from where it was extracted the stone to make all the nearby houses and the Roman theater stairs of Volterra)
private and can not be visited.
The Montenero ponds are located within the path of the ‘Route Of the villas and churches, are three small lakes with breathtaking waterfall where you can do dips and refreshing baths in the natural reserve of Montenero.
From waterfalls, cross the stream and climbing the opposite slope you reach the Pod.Uliveto. From here, following the path that goes up on the right, it is easy to get to the source of milk (whose water, according to tradition, had the property to ensure the milk to pregnant women that they had drunk) and the remains of the ancient Pieve di San Giovanni Battista alla Nera (eleventh century).
