Always on the lookout for good food and special ingredients I came across the concept of LaVialla. On our way back from Italy we stopped by the Fattoria and filled the car up to the brim with penne, oil, wine and sugo.
LaVialla is a beautiful farm estate about 8km north of Arezzo and is run by three brothers of the Lo Franco family. Their commitment to biodynamic organic sustainable farming is very strict and the project of combining old farming methods with new technology is very state of the art. They use their beautiful estate to show how they produce and want the guests to understand the difference and specialty of their way of farming.
I just had the feeling that everything is a little too much staged and prepared for tourists. But on the other hand, if this concept helps to create a sensibility of sustainable production, then this way of “show production” makes sense and the success proves them right…and not to forget: the products are really good…