Orsina | Gastronomy
The manor’s dining room, and a terrace above the valley. The menu is written each morning, from what the garden gave.
Nature Writes The Menu
Nature writes the menu. We take the dictation.
She wrote the finest cookbook there is. In summer, a plate of tomatoes that need nothing but oil and salt, or saffron courgettes with almonds, crisp oregano and Tuscan yogurt salsa. In winter, grilled radicchio with rosemary, wild capers and pomegranate vinaigrette, or a celeriac parmigiana slow-baked since morning.
The vegetable is the centre of the plate. Everything else attends it.
Three settings, three different ways to enjoy the estate, and the same soil arrives at each.
Orsina, on the terrace above the valley, where dinner is long. Follonico, at the pool, where the afternoon is bright and slow. Zabella, down in the cellar, for the wine and the things that go beside it.
On some evenings there is one long table, shared by guests, neighbours, and whoever comes to it.
The manor’s dining room, and a terrace above the valley. The menu is written each morning, from what the garden gave.
An infinity pool that runs toward Montepulciano. Sun-drenched flavours, cold drinks, and a Tuscan afternoon with nowhere to be.
Set into the soil, open to the valley. Biodynamic wines from growers who farm the way we do, with short circuit specialties, and home-baked focaccia.