During
the pre WWII years, when trade was still done locally and the agriculture industry
was lucrative in the Tuscan region of Italy, the Lotti-Gaggia family bought Tenuta
San Carlo from the Ponticelli family (owners of La Trappola adjacent to Tenuta
San Carlo).
The original stretch of land was bought in 1936 as an investment,
but Tenuta San Carlo soon developed into a fully functioning farm with thirty
farmhands, cattle, horses,