© A Man From Chianti
Mario Felice Schwenn
A good wine is liquid geography - a friend once told me - a place where man plant, and planet meet. It became my credo as a wine producer. In human nature the aim is to realize one's nature perfectly. As much is true for your wine, when you produce it. I produce wine and, in a rare symbiosis, wine produces me. I am seduced not by tradition but by stories of civilized disobedience to it. Stories which I now help other producers to write. These are stories about keeping the faith and knowing that sometimes the greatest risk, is not taking one. Coming to wisdom through failure. Good wine shapes solid rock, hills of vineyards, miles of road and, sometimes, a courageously simple philosophy: "Do as you are, become as you do!! With every pruning I am reborn to this strongly defined sense of purpose.
Claudio Maccari
Each of us is the result of what goes on in our minds and in our bodies. The food is the nourishment of our bodies and its quality will determine over time the quality and performance of this complicated "machine" that we call the body. In the same way all the information, images, sounds, sensations that come from birth onwards to our brain, will be crucial to our cultural and spiritual growth. It is shown that our growth and our prosperity depend entirely on the choices that we do on a daily basis. And we choose, in simplicity, to seek beauty, authenticity, sharing what makes us feel good and be the best. Arts and kitchen are two expressions of human creativity as never before were to close and as never before have seen growing interest around them, true architects of our essence.
Carol Sicbaldi
For more than 20 years, Carol has been working in the active tour industry. She started in the early '90s with a San Francisco based trekking company that ran mountaineering trips all over the world. An Italian-American with relatives in the Piemonte region of Italy, in 1993 she decided to shift her professional interests towards Italy and began designing and leading active tours exclusively in Italy. Thirty years later she continues to enjoy Italy - where she and her two boys, Mattia and Daniel now live. Carol has designed and led trips in: Tuscany (& Elba), Umbria, Le Marche, Lazio, Piemonte, Lombardia, the Dolomites, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia, Liguria, Sicily, Puglia, Corsica, and Sardegna. Carol currently manages the European Operations office for Whole Journeys. She also leads a few walking trips each year.
Luca Benucci
When air flows through our hearts, it creates the feelings we use to plays our own music, and we can imagine the soundsand the colours pouring from it
The harmonies entwine with one another;
the entwine as in life and light up our day
with constant surprises.