Podere San Michele


The warmth of the welcome at this wine estate is superb. Wicker furniture, huge beds and swish bathrooms define bedrooms, breakfast is a vast spread and you can organise tastings of the wine grown from the estate's grapes. The setting, on the plains just south of San Vincenzo, isn't as picturesque as some, but it's well placed for exploring both hills and coast.

Handy connecting doubles cater to families with kids.


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