In early 2023, Constellation brands and the wine maker Ruffino engaged MÀKIA to help re-vision a series of landscapes surrounding their Poggio Casciano estate 20 minutes outside of Florence Italy. The focus of the intervention was to provide al-fresco dining and relaxing under an existing stand of holm oaks and cypress. We envisioned a garden full of movement and seasonality to work in contrast with the existing formal garden that had been completed by the Italian Landscape Architect, Pietro Porcinai many years before. Layers of acanthus, liriope, and heleborus, contrast with mounds of pittosporum and phillyrea, while accents of agapanthus, peroviskia, anenomie japonica and climbing roses, lead guests through the gardens creating a fresh foreground to balance the spectacular geometries of the vineyard-covered landscapes beyond.