Ermenegildo Tamanti’s farm in Santa Restituta
Villa Poggio Salvi, the Tagliabue family’s Brunello estate south-west of Montalcino, stands on Poggiosalvi, a farm of Ermenegildo Tamanti in the nineteenth century.
The Tamanti years
In 1868 Ermenegildo Tamanti published a notice in the Gazzetta Ufficiale warning the sharecroppers on his farms. It names Poggiosalvi, in the parish of Santa Restituta, among them. The farmhouse named in that notice is today Villa Poggio Salvi. The 1820 owner of the parcels around it is still to be read in the cadastre.
How it left the Tamanti
Not yet known. By 1971, when the computerised land register begins, the farmhouse belonged to a Montalcino family. It passed to a company based in Lugano in 1973, and in 1981 to the Tagliabue family company; the estate dates Pierluigi Tagliabue’s purchase to 1979. The Tagliabue family still runs it, with about 21 hectares in Montalcino.
Timeline
- 1868 Ermenegildo Tamanti’s sharecropped farm.
- 1868–1971 Sold out of the family; by 1971 owned by a Montalcino family.
- 1973 A Lugano company.
- 1979–1981 Pierluigi Tagliabue buys the estate (deed registered 1981); the Tagliabue family today.
What is still to find
The 1820 owner of Poggiosalvi, when the Tamanti acquired it, and when and to whom they sold it.
Sources
Gazzetta Ufficiale, 22 September 1868; Regione Toscana and Agenzia delle Entrate map services; Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, “Villa Poggio Salvi”; historical land-register extract, Foglio 110, particella 10.
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