The Oria community

A Tuscan way of life
that reaches the world

Oria brings together people who share the same way of inhabiting the world. Mediterranean culture as a starting point —and other regions where that way of living is also celebrated— as a horizon.

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The origin of the name

Oria comes from áurea

The name Oria is born from áurea: the golden proportion that nature uses to build what is beautiful. It is in the spiral of a sunflower, in the shell of the nautilus, in the arrangement of the vine's leaves, in the curve of a Val d'Orcia hill at sunset.

The company's legal name carries that exact figure: ORIA 1.618 SAS. It is not a decorative detail. It is a promise: in every decision —how we choose the parcels, how we welcome a member, how a glass is poured— we seek that proportion between care and beauty.

Work with nature, not against it. That is the rule of the golden ratio.
1.618 The proportion of Oria
The Oria community contemplating the landscape of olive groves and lake in Val d'Orcia
Philosophy

The values that bring us together

A community is not defined by what it buys. It is defined by what it shares. These are the values that make us choose one another.

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Legacy

To leave the place better than we found it. Every parcel, every barrel, every restored room is conceived at thirty, a hundred, two hundred years. We do not own time: we are its caretakers.

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Historical heritage

To care for and restore what earlier generations built. Val d'Orcia has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004. The Santa Maria della Scala monastery has stood for eight centuries. We do what it takes to keep them standing.

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Nature and gourmet from the source

To enjoy nature and its foods crafted where they are born: the wine among the vines, the oil beside the olive grove, the aceto in the monastery's barrels. No intermediary between the land and the table.

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Travel and gather friends

Mediterranean culture happens at the table, not on the screen. Oria exists so that you return to Tuscany, bring those you love, and discover the other sister terroirs where the same way of living is celebrated.

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Authentic encounters

In a world increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence, authentic experiences become the scarcest good. Talking with Roberto among the vineyards. Dining with the community. The real, the unrepeatable, the present.

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Global community

More than 150 owners across 30 countries. Entrepreneurs, doctors, artists, producers. Becoming part of Oria opens the door to new personal, professional and business relationships among those who share these same values.

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Slow luxury

True luxury is not speed. It is time: a harvest that lasts weeks, an aceto that waits decades, a conversation that lingers two hours. Italian slow luxury: the beauty that only appears when there is no hurry.

Slow luxury

"Becoming part of Oria is not buying a product. It is choosing a way of inhabiting the land and time."

We are building a global community around a single idea: that Mediterranean culture —Tuscany first, and all the sister places where the same way of living is celebrated— deserves to be practised with the body present. To eat slowly. To toast looking into one another's eyes. To walk among the vines without a phone. To learn from those who have spent decades doing the same thing with mastery.

Oria is the platform for that to happen: with members who share values, products that tell a story and places that welcome with the Italian generosity of always.

Roberto Cipresso · Martín Iglesias
Where we are going
2040
Oria Vision

The world's reference community
for Mediterranean slow luxury

By 2040, Oria is the world's reference community for Mediterranean slow luxury: a refuge from haste. Three sister terroirs —Val d'Orcia, Uruguay and Mendoza— united by the same way of inhabiting the land and time.

In a world increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence and by serialised experiences, Oria gathers those who choose the opposite: wines made by a person with a name, long tables, lands that are inherited.

A place where a wine takes thirty years to reveal itself, an aceto a hundred and an olive tree two hundred —and where the only measure of success is the beauty we leave behind when we go.

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Sister terroirs
Time as an ingredient
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Global community
Do you recognise yourself in these values?

Join the Oria community

Three ways in, depending on how involved you want to be: from 50 m² of the ancient olive grove to an entire hectare with your own wine signed by Roberto Cipresso.

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