Tuscany, Italy

Colle Alberti Country House

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Style

Vintage Toscana

Setting

Chianti heartlands

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Share bottles of estate-made wines at Colle Alberti Country House, a family-run winery with rooms, set high in the Tuscan hills. On hunting grounds once favoured by the Medicis, the rival Strozzis built a villa during the Renaissance, and in 1819, the current owners’ family moved in and have been bottling the good stuff ever since. Now with luxury suites and a pool, it’s a ravishing, reinvented retreat that even the Strozzis would approve of.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

18 rooms, including three suites.

Check–Out

11am, and check-in is from 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a locally sourced breakfast with à la carte options.

Also

One Standard Room on the ground floor has been modified for improved accessibility (with a step-free bathroom and more generous overall footprint), but unfortunately this rural escape is not suitable if you use a wheelchair, as the gardens and grounds are not step free.

Please note

The hotel’s national identification code (CIN) is IT048011B5MSJAC5M7.

Hotel closed

The hotel is open year-round, but the bar and restaurant operate with reduced hours between November and April.

At the hotel

Lounge area, wine cellars, expansive gardens and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, air-conditioning, minibar, tea- and coffee-making kit, free bottled water and Comfort Zone bath products. Bathrobes are available on request.

Our favourite rooms

Interiors throughout are surprisingly contemporary but not jarring, marrying period details with pale woods, sleek silhouettes and a soft colour palette. The Barn is a two-bedroom suite, set apart from the main hotel, that’s ideal for privacy alla famiglia. For outdoor space to yourselves, bag a Superior Plus Room; and we’re drawn to the diminutive Granary Rooms for their original features and direct garden access.

Poolside

Set aside from the tenuta but with the same bucolic views across vineyards and wheat fields and to the hills beyond, the pool is a fine spot in which to while away an afternoon poolside at Colle Alberti Country House. Landscape architect Marco Bay, who has the green spaces of Milan’s Piazza Duomo in his impressive portfolio, has carefully placed holm oaks for shade and fig and cypress for aroma. As you rest post-swim on a sunlounger, sipping the estate-grown Biancoduva, you may find yourself pondering the morality of idly watching your hosts toil on the next vintage nearby.

Packing tips

An appetite for country adventures and a penchant for classic Italian reds.

Also

The hotel can arrange private tours of the local region and beyond that are worth investigating ahead of arrival.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome to stay for €12 each a night, but must be kept on a leash and not left unsupervised. See more pet-friendly hotels in Tuscany.

Sustainability efforts

Local suppliers are used exclusively, and the wines served are produced entirely on the estate. LED bulbs reduce energy consumption, and single-use products and plastic bottles have been eliminated.

Food and Drink

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Dress Code

A linen suit, naturally.

Hotel restaurant

Chef Fabio serves a fresh local breakfast on the veranda each morning. Start the day with regional cheeses, cold cuts, jams, homemade pastries and cakes, or opt for eggs, omelettes and pancakes, cooked to order. From Easter onwards, the kitchen ramps up service with light lunches available daily, and more substantial Tuscan plates — spotlighting estate produce and paired with home-crafted vintages — whipped up in the evening. 

Hotel bar

A highlight of any visit is a guided wine tasting in the 17th-century cellars, built by stalwart Florentine family, the Strozzis. The winery’s calling-card is the hand-harvested Occhio Di Pernice, which is oak-aged for three years, high in the attic, where the exaggerated temperature change gives a rich, fruity flavour. Footnote the day with a sunset apéritif in the garden, then head to the snug lounge bar in the Country House. Open from 8am for coffee and soft drinks, the bar serves house cocktails and stocks the full range of the estate’s own wines.

Last orders

In spring and summer months, a light lunch is served between 1pm and 2.30pm, and dinner hours are 7pm until 9pm.

Room service

Snacks and drinks can be ordered from the bar menu between 8am and 9pm.

Location

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Address
Colle Alberti Country House
Via Colle Alberti 9
Cerreto Guidi (FI)
50050
Italy

Colle Alberti Country House is the jewel of the historic 617-acre Colle Alberti estate, fringing the village of Cerruto Guidi in central Tuscany’s rolling Chianti region.

Planes

Pisa’s Galileo Galilei Airport and Florence’s Airport Peretola are both 40 minutes away by car, and the hotel can arrange private van transfers for €150 each way.

Trains

Trenitalia’s rail network connects this rural region impressively to many nearby cities. Empoli and San Miniato stations are 15 minutes away by car, with private transfers available from €50 each way.

Automobiles

A Tuscan road trip is an experience worth having, and the hotel is within an hour’s drive of Pisa, Florence, Lucca, and Siena. Parking at the hotel is plentiful and free.

Other

Tuscany is coveted for its cycling terrain (almost as much as its terroir), with quiet, dusty back roads ideal for gentle vineyard touring and gritty hardcore racing alike. The hotel is a beautiful base for both.

Worth getting out of bed for

As the patchwork of olive groves, vine terraces and other crop fields suggests, this tenuta grows more than just grapes. Time your visit to coincide with the gathering season between September and December and you can get hands on with the harvest. Sample the fruits of the estate’s labours at a wine tasting in the hotel’s cellars. In Cerreto Guidi, explore the Medicis’ legacy at hunting museum and storied seat, Villa Medici. The village of Vinci is where you’ll find the Conti Guidi Castle, home to the Museo Leonardiano, honouring their famous Renaissance polymath. The hotel can arrange private guided tours locally as well as further afield to Pisa, Siena or Florence, all under an hour away by car. If you prefer your adventures on two wheels, Tuscany’s strade bianche (white roads) promise world-class pedalling within easy reach of your base at Colle Alberti. 

Local restaurants

Colle Alberti’s neighbouring towns and villages deliver memorable dining pit stops. Ristorante Adriano 731943 in Cerreto Guidi has been a favoured haunt spinning classic Tuscan plates with regional produce since the Sixties. In San Miniato, chef Fabrizio Marino leads a kitchen spinning polished vegetarian plates at Ristorante Maggese, with nearby Brassica Osteria Contemporanea, another standout.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this wine estate outside Cerreto Guidi and unpacked their bottles of Chianti and olive oil, a full account of their countryside break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Colle Alberti Country House in Tuscany…

Banal things can seem very different through the lens of travel. At home, potholes are despised. But here in Tuscany, any potholes you pass on the rambling white gravel road leading to Colle Alberti Country House are badges of honour — testament to the authentic encounter ahead. This is a real working countryside estate producing wine, extra virgin olive oil, wheat, broad beans and sunflower seeds. 

The estate’s history traces back to 1113, but the proprietors today are four brothers from a family that has overseen this land for more than 200 years. And, boy, does this talented brotherhood deliver: one is an architect, who masterminded the estate’s first guest quarters; another — conveniently — is a winemaker, ensuring that your surroundings are as productive as they are pretty. Admire the vine-ribboned scenery over breakfast on the veranda each morning, setting you up to explore this underrated part of Tuscany in peace, away from the crowds of Chianti and Val d’Orcia.

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