La Dolce Vita Is Closer Than You Think

There is a moment every guest describes the same way. It's early. The fog is still lying low in the vines, moving the way fog does when no one is watching. You carry your coffee onto the veranda in bare feet, and for a minute — you swear you're in Italy.

You're not. You're in the North Georgia hills, at Montaluce Winery & Estates — a Tuscan village built by people who fell in love with Italy and decided Georgia deserved its own. And it's a real village: clay-tile rooftops in the valley, neighbors living la bella vita year-round, a working vineyard at the center of it all. Not a resort pretending to be a place. A place.

The Villas at Montaluce are three Tuscan homes set within the estate itself — steps from the winery, the vineyard rows, and the long candlelit tables of Le Vigne. Stay here, and there is no drive home after the last pour. There is only the walk back up the hill, under stars the city never shows you, to a fire someone thought to light.