Letters 05.09 from May 2009 Reader’s Find: Italy Five years ago, my husband and I discovered a magical place in Tuscany: Villa Bernardi (one-week minimum, from $9,134), on a 130-acre vineyard along Chianti’s main wine route. The five-bedroom villa—a stone farmhouse dating back to 1085 that was recently remodeled—has wood-beamed ceilings, terra-cotta floors, and a swimming pool. It’s run by a gracious family who does tasting tours of their vineyard and others nearby, and encourages guests to help out with the wine making. We stayed for a week with two other couples, cooking and drinking the owners’ outstanding varietals, which we later found in New York’s Chambers Street Wine Shop. We’ve been back every year since, and stock up in between visits. —Linda Golden, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.