Tuscan Cypress Avenue
$22.00
A five-kilometre line of Mediterranean cypress running straight inland from the small chapel of San Guido to the medieval village of Bolgheri. Around 2,500 trees, planted in the early 1800s and protected as a monumental avenue. Giosuè Carducci spent his boyhood in the next village south and wrote the road into a poem Italian schoolchildren still know by heart. The vineyards of Sassicaia and Ornellaia begin where the cypresses end. Coaches pull off on the slip road from the Via Aurelia. Most people walk it slowly, in twos.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.