Umbria is the “green heart of Italy”, a meeting point between Nortn and South, between the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian, vineyard country since Etruscan times.Orvieto is a splendid walled city built on a tuff spur by the Etruscans and becoming a Roman “Urbs Vetus”, old town, but also synonymous with the prestigious Umbrian white of which Bigi has been a top producer for many years.