Our stay at Shanti House was nothing but fantastic. It's a small family run hotel, and the parents has a restaurant just up the street that amongst others serve the olives you look at from the hotel-windows and local wine from Lacrima-grapes. The hotel itself is situated beautifully in the middle of soft mountains/hills with an amazing vista of olive copses and wine-fields, which you can enjoy from panorama windows while eating breakfast. The rooms are clean, and the service is top class and very personal (If you want anything they will bend over backwards to provide it, even take you personally if possible). The host also stayed up late to greet us (we arrived late), and served breakfast earlier than usual becaue we had to leave early. There's also lots of things to do in the local area if you are into wine-tasting, hill-walking, horse-riding, etc. I can for certain recommend this place for a genuine italian experience.