Reviews:
Last Sunday was my last day in the most idyllic place I can think of in Europe. We had been staying for three weeks in a beautiful rented house in Andalucia, north west of Seville, in the Sierras of Aracena, entirely surrounded by cork and sweet-chestnut forests, and looking across on all sides to mountains in the blue distance. It is as near perfection as a holiday house can get. There is room to have lots of guests, and there is room for them to escape from each other and from us. The light is very clear, the stars very bright, the days hot and the nights cool. Although the house appears to be in the depths of the country, there is an old-fashioned little town conveniently close and Seville is only an hour away.
I was extremely sad to leave.
Minette Marrin
Spectator Diary Sept 4th 1999
'The Finca is a lovely house in a stunning location surrounded by some 150 acres of forested land. It is in a wild area of Spain and wonderful for those who want a peaceful and gentle relaxed holiday.”
John Garton-Jones.
Set in the midst of an Andalusian nature reserve near the town of Aracena is Finca Buen Vino. Sam and Jeannie built the place from the foundation up in the early 1980s but the house has the feeling of being much older—perhaps the result of such fortuitous additions as a group of matched, 200-year old high doors acquired when an old Madrid neighborhood was taken down.
The finca has both a winter salon and a summer salon. In summer, life is largely lived out on the cool blue veranda, or beside a nicely designed pool that is reached along a trellised walk and is perched over a precipice to yield fine views of the hills beyond. In winter, the fireplace in the bright yellow living room blazes with warmth.
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Other Activities:
Fiestas throughout the summer in different villages.
