Greater demand for rural property has been widely reported in the UK this year, and recent comments from Italy-based estate agencies suggest the trend has also touched the land of Chianti Classico and Brunello di Montalcino.

‘I have seen many more buyers looking for properties, perhaps as many as four times more than the period before the [Covid-19] pandemic,’ John Jonk, real estate broker for Tuscany and Umbria at Sotheby’s International Realty in Italy, told Decanter.com recently.