Sting opens wine shop

Music legend Sting has opened an organic shop with his wife Trudie Styler. Tenuta il Palagio, which is part of the couple’s estate in Tuscany is a food and wine store.

The enterprise will only sell produce that is grown and farmed on their 900-acre site in Italy, previously only available in exclusive international stores such as Harrods.

Wine in the store will be composed of Sting’s first-ever red wines, a Chianti and a Toscana, both of which were made from vines on his estate and launched onto the market last year.

The shop was opened on 5 August to a host of local residents, including the mayor of the nearest town, Figline Valdarno, which is located to the south-east of Florence.

“If I don’t eat well, I can’t sing,” the singer told a local newspaper.

In addition to wine, the Tenuta il Palagio estate produces olive oil, honey, and a range of salamis made from Tuscany’s ‘cinta senese’, a special breed of pig.

Jane Parkinson, 09.08.10