The Podere Abbadia is situated at the foot of Montefollonico, between Montepulciano and Pienza, a terroir famous for its natural and artistic beauty, as well as for the fruits that can be coaxed from terrain that is particularly suited to the cultivation of vines and olive trees.
Verena Rothlin developed a fascination with this area, and decided to leave her beloved Switzerland to move here. In 1996 she bought the Podere Abbadia property from a family who had looked after and worked the land with love and dedication for over 150 years.
Verena and her companion Robert Kengelbacher now live and work together at Podere Abbadia, in a farmhouse surrounded by 27 hectares of nature that is diligently cared for with passion and commitment.
Among the woods, vineyards, and olive groves, the unspoilt landscape emanates and transmits a sense of peace and a great physical and spiritual energy, against a backdrop dominated by the Mediterranean scrub, with chestnuts, holm oaks, hornbeams, oaks, cypresses, pines and junipers, framed by the red of the downy oaks.