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great wealth that wine has bestowed on Montalcino tends to make one
forget that it is the fruit of a long laborious process during the
last century in which our own farm also began its history and evolution. A long chat with our grandfather, Primo Pacenti, who right from the start, as a young man, believed in the land and its produce, enlightened us, his grandchildren - Simonetta, Marco and Francesco about all the unknown aspects of the past making us want to continue along this path. It isn't easy to get the full picture, not having experienced it oneself, but it was certainly wonderful to listen to him and share his experiences. |
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| Born
in 1923, still a youthful person, he has always followed closely the
developments of the wine-growing business as well as the social initiatives
until three years ago when because of an unfortunate whim of destiny
he was reduced to using a wheel-chair. His memory, still quite lucid, spans the various moments, good times, difficult times, sad times of a life full of effort, hardship, work and also a lot of satisfaction. At the start of the 20th century our family were share-croppers, a world in which farms were run on a basis of equal division of the profits between the owners who gave orders and the peasant farmers who worked for them. It was not until the Fifties that the first uprisings brought about drastic changes to this 'way of life' which in the Sixties was finally abolished. It was then that our grandfather, together with his two brothers, decided to buy a farm despite the uncertainty and the debts that prevailed and aware that he was taking a big step which for the time being just prevented him having to emigrate to one of the big industrial centres.  |
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