Villa Sobrano in Umbria
Villa Sobrano is just the place if you are looking for wine tasting tours, olive oil appreciation holidays or even that fairytale Italian wedding, set in spectacular surroundings near Todi in Umbria. Castello Villa Sobrano can offer all of these and much more. Set amongst green rolling hills, the estate covers 30 hectares, just a five minute drive from beautiful medieval city of Todi in central Umbria.
The estate is made up of the Villa Sobrano, an historic country residence with beautiful courtyard, Italianate garden, pool and its own private chapel.
The imposing 13th century Castello, which was an important fortification at the time and the road alongside the estate was the major road that led to Rome from Florence over many centuries, and is where Cantina Sobrano is located. The 50 metre “bottaia” holds the ancient oak barrels for storing and ageing the wine. Below the gallery are the cellars where guests and wine-tasting excursions taste the fantastic wine produced on the Villa Sobrano Estate. Wine has been produced at the Castello for almost 100 years. The wine produced at Castello Villa Sobrano is “Bartolomeo” and “Donna Sabina” and is available for sale.
In the surrounding countryside there are several small producers of fine extra virgin olive oils and one in particular is a excellent oil which shows off to the best the ancient Umbrian skills of making fine olive oil.
This olive oil is the centre of our olive oil tour and appreciation holiday in this particular area of Italy and the courses are also held at the Villa Sobrano, either in the ancient cantina or outside on the sun drenched terraces.
The villa has available 4 double rooms and 3 suites complete with their own sitting room and all furnished in the style of the period.
There is also “San Filipo” a wonderful and tastefully restored country house on the estate, set amongst its vineyards with panoramic views, available for rental - short or long term and also available for weddings.
Olivaverde is pleased to offer this to clients as a perfect Italian setting with everything to offer, holidays, take a break for a few months and rent the country house and inhale the region, the countryside and everything the estate has to offer, wine-tasting, weddings. The estate is perfectly situated centrally with Assisi, Orvieto, Montefalco, Spoleto, Perugia within a 40 minute drive and Rome in under two hours and Florence two hours way by car.
The Wines
To compliment the Villa Sobrano’s top range of wines, namely their Bartolomeo and Donna Sabina and in their pursuit of excellence Cantina Sobrano believe it is of paramount importance to offer a great choice, top quality and value across the range. For this reason they have invested time and energy to develop a new line of
varietal wines.
These new and exciting wines will be introduced from February 2010 and the wines will represent the expression of their great terroir and will widen the choice of wines on offer to fulfil customers demands for younger and more approachable wines.
The Villa Sobrano will always strive to achieve the highest quality as well as the best value throughout its whole range of wines it offers and we at Olivaverde are pleased to be involved in their ongoing programme of growth and expansion into other markets outside of Italy.
Visit Villa Sobrano's website at
www.cantinasobrano.it.