Marco Simonetti: Lucchese Wine & Beyond

Give a little look, careful, to this image. At first impact we remained almost frightened. A shot baddetermined, strong -willed. Belonging to whom? Then, carefully, we understood that it was a special person, of a dear friend that we have known for years and with whom we have sometimes also controversial, but in mutual respect and in the esteem that everyone has always had for the other. Marco Simonetti met him for the first time, if we do not err and memory does not betray us, several years ago, when he was very busy with the Basket Lucchese and, in particular, with the Basketball Club Lucca, immediately after the tragedy that had brought to the ruin of the Basketball company Arcaanthea Basketball Lucca. Simonetti is also a special professional, a dentist who owns, with our dear friend Rosaria Sommariva, one of the most renowned and prestigious studies in that of Porcari, the Sant’Apollonia.

Well, Simonetti has never passed there, but sometimes he deigned to his approval in a time that if he doesn’t go on the contrary, he certainly goes upside down. Bring to love the rules and respect them, to make them respect even if, perhaps, it does not fully approve of them, we remember during the Covid, indeed, now, in the end or so, when in the study they continued to keep the masks even if their use had been somehow abandoned. We who were out of turns from the beginning of the pandemic, having to go to a visit, we entered without a mask, but at that point we had to deal with Simonetti and he was adamant: either you wear it or you go. Our attempts to make it clear, nothing to do: or so or Pomì.

Serious and punctual person Marco Simonetti, they were. This photo seems to be portrayed as a bird of prey and instead it is a man who knows how to question himself and never claims to be right regardless. When we meet him the embrace is rigorous. In a city like Lucca there would be many Lucchesi like this and, honestly, there are them.