Farmhouse Estate in Tuscany, Lucca - Agriturismo Vecchio Olivo

The Stefanini Tronchetti Farm spreads out on the slops of Montecarlo Hill, starting from the Walls of the ancient Medieval Village and descending gently to the Valdinievole side. We have a very mild climate softly influenced by the relative closeness to the sea.

Our olive groves cover about 15 hectares of our lands and they are partly cultivated with the traditional "pot" method and partly with the most innovative "monocone" pruning system integrated with an adequate fertirrigation plant.

The present cultivars are the typical ones of the Lucca hills divided among: 65% "frantoio", 15% "moraiolo", 15% "leccino", 5% "pendolino" (pollinator). Olives are exclusively hand reaped from the tree, with the "manual stripping off" method and brought to our oil mill the same day in order to be immediately changed into extra vergine olive oil of Lucca hills.

The oil mill we selected to increase best the characteristics of our valuable oil is a continuous cycle oil mill, as working in two phases only, it does not use hot water and allows a cold pressing of our olives.

Our vineyards are all gathered in the central part of the farm, carefully placed in order to take advantage as much as possible of the sun action. They cover a total area of about 4 hectares fairly shared for white and red wines production. The red berry species of vine are Merlot, Cabernet, Ciliegiolo, Canaiolo, Sangiovese grosso, while the white berry species of vine are represented by Chardonnay, white Pinot, Sauvignon, Roussanne, Trebbiano.

In our wine farm we try to combine the traditional wine-making methods handed on by the folk wisdom together with the innovations and improvements that the current technology offers. All the production phases of the Stefanini Tronchetti Farm are personally supervised by our family members, with a particular care of respect and protection for our territory. We indeed made an ecological choice joining, since 1995, the regional agro-ambient programme Reg./CEE 2078/92 for the control and the reduction of fertilizers and plant protection products.