It was 2003 and we toured for some time in Tuscany and Liguria, then a weekend we landed in Lunigiana and it seemed to us a beautiful land rich in nature, despite the abandonment by farmers who made it a wild territory… a detail that we immediately liked. Here there are hills adjacent to the Apennines completely uninhabited, full of woods, streams… all very nice things to see. In this area we discovered beautiful villages and realities rich in history and typicality until the day we came across a farm that was a small castle of Malaspina now abandoned for about 15 years surrounded by a vineyard, a chestnut grove and an olive grove overlooking the stream (the Taverone). The farmhouse immediately fascinated us by the fact that it was all abandoned, with collapsed walls covered with vines… in short, it was love at first sight. The adjacent vineyard, also abandoned, having already many faults formed over the years, had to be fixed and so in this project we had to replant the vineyard, build a wine cellar and restore the house, you can imagine that for us it was a real adventure.