Singer Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have owned a winery in Tuscany for over 20 years. The 69-year-old now claims that he was ripped off when he bought it.
Musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have owned a winery in Tuscany since the late 1990s. But when buying the property from the 16th century, the 69-year-old felt ripped off afterwards. Sting said that in an interview with the Italian newspaper. According to this, he and Styler acquired the property south of Florence along with the associated vineyards from the Italian nobleman Simone Vincenzo Velluti Zati di San Clemente.
Above all, the purchase of the vineyards gave the musician a stomachache. “The Duke asked me if I would like to try the wine from the winery, and I said yes. It was an excellent wine and that convinced me to buy the vineyards too,” said Sting. Later, however, it turned out that the wine was not made from the vineyards of the estate, but a Barolo from the northern Italian region of Piedmont.
Obviously, the vines acquired were not as suitable as Sting had hoped. “When we served our guests the wine from the estate, I saw that someone was pouring their glass into a flower bed,” recalls the singer. But that aroused his ambition: He wanted to prove that his vines are good for a good wine. “Our whole Tuscan adventure was really a way of getting revenge.” With success. Sting and Styler now produce around 150,000 bottles of wine per year and run a bar and a pizzeria. Some of the drops, all named after Sting songs, have won awards.
The son of the Italian duke is mad at Sting
Only one person doesn’t like Sting’s anecdote about the purchase: Simone San Clemente Jr, the Duke’s son. He called the Briton’s statements malicious slander and demands that Sting apologize to his family. “Nothing could be more alien to the character, habits and behavior of my father than to behave like a fraudulent innkeeper,” said a statement published by the newspaper.
He is particularly annoyed that Sting is making the allegations after his father’s death in 2012, said the duke’s son. The comments made now are just a tasteless marketing strategy to boost sales. Simone San Clemente Jr also criticized the renovation work that the musician had carried out on the historic building. It has nothing to do with the original house, there is a large pool, a fitness studio and a yoga studio. “The Palagio is now a Palm Beach-style resort,” the Italian grumbled.
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