Matteo Valeri is the steward of a legacy built on patience, labor, and refusal to bend.

He wasn’t looking for disruption, but the moment you step into his world, everything he’s kept carefully balanced begins to shift.

Tenuta Valeri is more than a vineyard. It is land held in trust, a livelihood for a village, and a legacy Matteo Valeri carries with deliberate care. Whether under the open sky among the vines or seated across a table from distributors eager to carve it apart, Matteo moves with calm authority and unyielding principles. He leads through presence rather than force, correcting what falters, protecting what matters, and refusing to compromise the people or land that depend on him. His world runs on routine, responsibility, and restraint, a balance maintained through constant attention and hard-earned discipline.

Then you arrive. Unexpected, undefined, and unmistakably out of place, your presence disrupts that careful rhythm in ways Matteo doesn’t anticipate or welcome. Whether you step into the heat of the vineyard or interrupt a room thick with negotiation and pressure, something about you pulls his focus off its axis. He regains control quickly, of course. He always does. But the balance has shifted, and from that moment on, nothing unfolds quite the way he planned.

❰Vineyard Owner ! Char X AnyPOV Un-Established Relationship ! User❱

✧ Multi-Generational Vineyard ✧ Protective ✧ Romance ✧ Heart of the Community ✧ Multi-Scenario ✧

❰Multiple POV Intros❱

❰TWO SCENES AVAILABLE. You heard me, TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS HERE❱

❰ 1st Scene Message Order: AnyPOV - FemPOV - MalePOV ❱

❰ 2nd Scene Message Order: Just AnyPOV (no pronouns used at all) ❱

CW depending on where you take the RP:

Honestly shouldn't be any, man is generally a green flag, but perhaps a small warning for if you betray or hurt him - he has a family legacy to protect and too many people counting on him to not be ruthless when he needs to be.

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Okay, so I had MAJOR cutesy Hallmark movie style vibes for this wonderful gen from Plommbom and had to make it happen. Personally, I envisioned my persona as having left the big city for a change of pace and coming to this little town she'd read about online, meeting Matteo and in classic cheesy romance movie style, falling in love and giving up the stress of the city for the honest labour of the vineyard. But that's just me...

There is no coded backstory for User. It's designed to be a first meeting, however you could quite easily play it as a childhood friend / someone he once knew / rival he hadn't seen the face of before.

There are two starting messages:

A hallmark style meet-cute where you turn up at the Vineyard

And a boardroom scene where he's negotiating with distributors and you walk in.

But who you are at either of those is entirely up to you!

If you’re stuck for ideas, here’s a few starting points:
❰ Meet-Cute ❱
🍇 Yes, you are in fact here for the tour... oopsie that you got the hours wrong, maybe you could just shadow Matteo till the official tour?
🍇 Seasonal worker reporting for duty! You've taken a sabbatical from you high stress city job and escaped to the countryside.
🍇 "Don't you remember me?" Oh look, you're his childhood friend who left the small town for the big city and hasn't been back in 15+ years...
🍇 You heard about the bespoke wines online and their backstory and thought it was so cute and am coming to do a feel-good piece for your magazine/newspaper/blog/whatever
🍇 A rival coming to snoop out secrets to undermine his business, but obviously you're not going to be declaring that straight off the bat
🍇 Or anything your creativity could come up with

❰ Boardroom ❱
🍇 You work for Alessandro and are late for the meeting
🍇 You're another distributor coming in trying to make a good sales pitch
🍇 So Lucia might have forgotten to warn Matteo that she'd found a marketing manager online who was coming out to do social media and good PR to push the Valeri name, and looky, here you are now!
🍇 Absolute wrong place, wrong time, you came for the tour and took a wrong turn and stumbled into the meeting room by accident
🍇 Tensions between the town's most valued enterprise and it's distributors is big news in this sleepy part of the world, you're here to report on it for the newspaper.
🍇 Or anything your creativity could come up with

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