VILLA CUSONA “GUICCIARDINI STROZZI” IN SAN GIMIGNANO

Hunting season begins every year on the 3rd Sunday of September at this splendid estate and continues until 31 January, with expeditions carried out for pheasants, starlings and partridges.

The wooded section of the estate is considered to be particularly outstanding within the Crete Senesi area for its natural production of white truffles.

It is possible to organise special visits of the ancient cellars with wine tastings from the Estate, where visitors can also purchase wine directly.

The Guicciardini Strozzi Tenute offer a wide and refined range of gift items, from aprons to wine gift sets.

THE HISTORY OF VILLA CUSONA

The oldest document testifying to the existence of the Cusona property dates back to the year 994.

Various illustrious member of the Strozzi and Guicciardini families have left their mark in Tuscany, Italy and the whole of Europe in the fields of history, politics, commerce, and culture.

After almost a thousand years of glorious tradition, Prince Girolamo Strozzi began marketing the estate’s wines worldwide in the 1970s, a tradition which he still conducts today, alongside his wife Irina and daughters Natalia and Irina Jr. In 1998, the family also began expanding the wine business in the coastal Tuscan Maremma region (Bolgheri, Scansano, Montemassi) as well as Pantelleria in Sicily.

Among the most prestigious labels is Vernaccia di San Gimignano. First produced in the 1200s, it was extolled by Dante, Michelangelo and Boccaccio, and enjoyed at the Medici Court, where it was sent as a gift to the Pope.

One of the historic red wines is ‘Millanni’, created to celebrate the estate's 1000 years of history.

FACILITIES AND SERVICES AT VILLA CUSONA

It is possible to organise visits of the historic wine cellars and the museum, and to arrange wine tastings of the wines produced on the Estate, as well as reserving lunches and private events, hunting expeditions and white truffle hunting in the woods.

PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE VICINITY

San Gimignano, Certaldo, Siena, Volterra, Florence, Arezzo, Lucca, the Bolgheri area, Versilia, the Argentario promontory.