Est. 1824 · Val d'Orcia, Tuscany

Two centuries,
one family,
one hillside.

Six generations of farmers and winemakers have walked the same forty hectares above the Val d'Orcia. The names on the deeds change. The work — and the wine — does not.

Golden-hour Tuscan vineyard with people gathered for an estate dinner

— Six Generations —

A lineage written in stone and in vine

1824

Tommaso plants the first vines

Three hectares of sangiovese, set into clay-and-galestro soil on a south-facing ridge. The cellar is dug by hand with stones from the Orcia riverbed.

1871

The villa is built

Tommaso's son Giacomo raises the stone villa that still anchors the estate. Olive trees go in along the lower terraces.

1921

Vermentino arrives

Cuttings smuggled in by Aurelia, the first woman to run the cellar. Costa Bianca is poured into its first bottle three vintages later.

1968

Brunello, properly

Carlo and Elena replant the highest hectare with sangiovese grosso. The first Solara Brunello Riserva is laid down to age six years before release.

2003

Organic, then biodynamic

Marco — fifth generation — converts every row. Cover crops, sheep through the vines in winter, no synthetic anything. The wine grows quieter and clearer.

Today

Six generations in

Sofia and Lorenzo run the cellar with their parents. Eleven cuvées, forty hectares, one farmhouse table that still sits twenty.

Guests gathered at a stone Tuscan villa courtyard at golden hour

A woman in a sundress holding a glass of wine in a stone doorway

— Our Heritage —

Two centuries of craft,
rooted in Tuscan soil

In 1824, our great-great-great-grandfather planted his first sangiovese vines on a sun-soaked ridge above the Val d'Orcia. Six generations later, the same family still walks those rows at dawn, still presses by hand during harvest, still ages every barrel in the cellar he built with stones from the riverbed.

What has changed is how far our wine travels. Today we ship to homes from Vancouver to Mexico City inside temperature-controlled, vibration-dampened cases of our own design. Every bottle arrives the way it left the cellar. Unhurried, undisturbed, alive.

About Us

— The Sixth Generation —

The hands that pour today

— Cellar Master —

Sofia di Solara

Three decades in the cellar — trained in Burgundy in her twenties, back on the estate by thirty, and at the helm ever since. Runs the cellar with a steel notebook, an unshakable palate, and a willingness to leave a wine in barrel a year longer than anyone expects.

— Vineyard Manager —

Lorenzo di Solara

Walks the rows at first light, every day of the year. Knows each of the forty hectares the way most people know the rooms of their own house.

Guests gathered at a Tuscan estate garden party at sunset

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Two centuries, one family, one hillside.