The cobbled streets of Radda were quiet when I arrived in early December, around the start of the Omicron wave, but at the end of Via Roma I found a warm welcome at La Bottega di Giovannino. Monica Bernardoni, the chef and wine buyer, told me that her father started the business as a small
From bad boy to meticulous vintner in two decades, Michele Braganti fulfilled his father's dream for a family wine estate. Wine Spectator contributing editor Robert Camuto visits the Monteraponi estate in Tuscany.