Letter 08 · June
On keeping a table open for one more.
There is always another chair by the window when the evening is good.
Montalcino · Tuscany · Since 1987
Cantilever House
A wine residence above the Val d'Orcia. Three rooms, one old cellar, and days given back to their proper pace.
Plan a stay
01 / The house
A room for the unhurried.
We keep the welcome small and the table long. Cantilever is a working estate shaped around the pleasure of staying awhile.
“The first glass is for arriving. The second is for noticing where you are.”
Morning begins with bread from the village oven. Afternoons are for the shade of the pergola, or the path down to the olive grove.
See the tableThe rooms
03 suitesThe altitude
482 mThe cellar
12 vintages02 / The cellar
A calendar in bottles.
Our small cellar follows the seasons rather than trends. Every pour is served where it was made, with something warm from the kitchen.
2019Rosso di CasaSour cherry · cedar · afternoon shadeMontalcino
2017Vigna AltaWild herbs · red plum · a long finishSouth slope
2015Riserva OmbraTobacco leaf · iron · quiet structurePrivate reserve
03 / At the table
Dinner is a kind of landscape.
Chef Marta Bellini cooks in the register of the land: spare, generous, and a little changed each evening. The menu is set at dusk. Tell us what you cannot eat; leave the rest to the season.
Ask for tonight's menu04 / Journal
Notes from the slope.
Small observations from a house that prefers the details at the edge of the frame.
Field note
Rain on the south wall.
The garden smells of fennel and warm stone after a summer storm.
Cellar note
The year in red.
Three bottles we are opening slowly this season.
05 / Visit
Stay for the last light.
Leave a note for the house. We will reply with the rooms, table, and cellar hours that suit your days.
Open April — November · Wednesday — Sunday