The Tuscan Harvest

The rolling hills of Chianti in late autumn were a golden paradise of olive groves, cypress-lined gravel roads, and ancient stone farmhouses nestled among terraced vineyards. For seven days, Marco and Elena had retreated to the historic Bellini country villa outside Greve in Chianti—a 16th-century stone estate surrounded by thirty acres of ancient olive trees that Vittorio had restored thirty years ago. Here, with cell phones locked in an iron…