mine, elisabetta, who is a renaissance scholar. she s incredibly boring, but we ll make it through. my god, i can t believe you came. hi. how are you? how are you? good to see you. nice to see you too. this little bar has just reintroduced a 500-year-old tradition. in 1559 our old friend the grand-duke cosimo primo de medici decreed that wealthy florentines could sell the wine they produced on their country estates direct from little windows cut into the walls of their city palaces instead of through taverns and inn keepers.
she s incredibly boring, but we ll make it through. my god, i can t believe you came. hi. how are you? how are you? good to see you. nice to see you too. this little bar has just reintroduced a 500-year-old tradition. in 1559 our old friend the grand-duke cosimo primo de medici decreed that wealthy florentines could sell the wine they produced on their country estates direct from little the family had to reset their business and do something different, produce wine. it became a great business in that moment for many families.
hills and tells you how the mediterranean sun has blessed the tuscan vineyards for 3000 years. they may even have a thoughtful sip of a world famous tuscan wine like chianti classico. but i m not going to do that. i m going on a good old fashioned bar crawl. and when i say old fashioned , i mean, like, the renaissance. i m going to meet a friend of mine, elisabetta, who is a renaissance scholar. she s incredibly boring, but we ll make it through. my god, i can t believe you came. hi. how are you? how are you? good to see you. nice to see you too. this little bar has just reintroduced a 500-year-old tradition. in 1559 our old friend the grand-duke cosimo primo de
in 1559 our old friend the grand-duke cosimo primo de medici decreed that wealthy florentines could sell the wine they produced on their country estates direct from little windows cut into the walls of their city palaces instead of through taverns and inn keepers. so, you would walk by, and you would buy, not by the glass, but you d buy by the bottle. you d buy a flask. you buy a flask. they had a little wooden door, there was a bell. sometimes they would also place things like a flask on top like an advertisement to say, hey guys, we sell wine.