Ferragamo: from Leather Boots to Fine Wines

Filed in archive Italian Wines on December 21, 2009

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Ferragamo has moved from high fashion to fine wine, according to BusinessWeek.

Don't bother going to a wine store and asking for the new line of Ferragamo wines. The Italian brand adorning $1,600 leather boots isn't on the bottles because the family, being extremely genteel, thinks it in poor taste.

Instead it uses names like Il Borro, a Tuscan estate spread over 700 hectares (1,730 acres), with 40 dedicated to vineyards.

You can also stay on the vineyard property in Tuscany, where the old Medici-Tornaquinci family villa has been turned into a resort.

Eight Ferragamo wines were presented in a tasting in New York recently.