Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Sting and his wife Trudie Styler are having lunch at their Tuscan estate, Il\u00a0Palagio. Their usual spot is under the oak tree on the terrace overlooking their vineyard and olive groves; their three-storey yellow-stone villa, which dates back to the 16th century, sits behind them. But it\u2019s too windy today so a table has been made up on the loggia, where they\u2019re gathered round a small table, drinking wine next to a gurgling fountain.The 17-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, 73, who has sold more than 100 million records as a solo performer and frontman of The Police, has come from his recording studio located over the winery and is dressed in blue overalls. \u201cMy grandfather [a shipwright] wore a boiler suit 24\/7. Went to church in a boiler suit. I feel like I\u2019m adopting my grandfather\u2019s [look],\u201d he says. The singer directs me to sit on his left and shyly gazes off into\u00a0the distance for much of our conversation, shooting me occasional sideways looks. But there\u2019s no denying the gravitational pull of his presence at the table; he brings as\u00a0much boyish mischief to his replies as sincerity. \u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0competitive,\u201d he says, of his dynamic with his wife, with whom he has been in a relationship for 43\u00a0years;\u00a0they have four children, aged from 29 to 41.\u201cNo, we\u2019re not,\u201d Styler replies. At 71, the actor and film producer, originally from Worcestershire, looks just as good as he does, in a pink corduroy Chlo\u00e9 jacket and jeans. \u201cLittle Miss Bossy Boots\u201d, as she calls herself at one point, is more naturally outgoing, although she\u2019s happy to let her\u00a0husband take the lead too. He is, after all, Sting. \u201cNow we\u2019re arguing about being competitive,\u201d he deadpans.Sting has just flown in from a sold-out gig in Abu Dhabi. It\u2019s the latest date on his 18-month Sting 3.0 world tour in which he\u2019s dispensed with a big band in favour of just him and two musicians. \u201cYou have to work harder in a three-piece,\u201d he says. \u201cOn tour I\u2019m doing the job of a 25-year-old. I\u2019m happy to do it.\u201d His next date is a month away in Tulum. \u201cWe tailor the tours so there are breaks where we can get together,\u201d he says, nodding to his wife.\u00a0\u201cUnlike when we were younger, we don\u2019t like to be apart longer than a couple of weeks,\u201d says Styler. \u201cIt\u2019s like\u00a0a waiting room when I come to Il Palagio on my own.\u201dThe couple, who also own houses in London, Malibu, New York, the Lake District and Wiltshire, visit Il Palagio throughout the year, but they spend most of their time here in August with family. \u201cIt\u2019s the diametric opposite to our life in Britain: the weather, the food, the vibe,\u201d says Sting. \u201cWe love England. But to have this alternative is perfect.\u201d They fell in love with Italy long before they bought the estate. Sting had performed and recorded in\u00a0Italy; Styler had worked in Rome as a young actor. In\u00a01990 they rented a villa in Pisa where Sting wrote his\u00a0album The Soul Cages and Styler gave birth to their third child, Eliot. For years they searched for their own\u00a0place. Il Palagio, despite being run-down when they\u00a0acquired the 350-hectare estate in the Chianti Colli Fiorentini region in 1997, instantly felt like home.\u00a0Since then, they\u2019ve restored the main house (which can\u00a0be rented; as can its five guesthouses) and replanted the vineyard. The chapel was turned into a gym and meditation space; there\u2019s an outside cinema, tennis court, stables and a\u00a0lake.\u00a0In addition to 10 wines, the estate produces olive oil and honey, and there\u2019s a farm shop, pizzeria and food and music venue open to the public.Now, for the first time, the wines are going on sale in\u00a0the UK via Il Palagio\u2019s website. Some of them (which range in price from \u00a318.95 to \u00a369.95) take their name from Sting songs. When We Dance is a\u00a0fruity, floral chianti. Every Little Thing She Does Is\u00a0Magic, a crisp ros\u00e9 spumante. Message in a Bottle was a no-brainer for their 100 per cent Vermentino and 100 per cent Sangiovese; and Sister Moon, a blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, was inspired by the biodynamic methods (which follow the lunar calendar) originally adopted on the estate. \u201cIt\u2019s just whimsy and a bit of marketing,\u201d says Styler of the names.\u00a0We\u2019re having the 2024 Roxanne Bianco with lunch. Styler favours white wine and champagne. \u201cWith red I\u00a0sometimes get migraines,\u201d she says. \u201cI drink white in the\u00a0daytime,\u201d Sting offers, \u201cbut in the evening I prefer a\u00a0ruminative red.\u201d His favoured Roxanne Rosso is brought\u00a0out. \u201cI mean the whole thing is a miracle to me,\u201d he continues. \u201cI was brought up in industrial Tyneside next to a shipyard. The idea that you could plant something in the ground, grow it and consume it is magic.\u00a0Owning a vineyard was never on the cards. But it\u2019s\u00a0remarkable to look out at those fields and think we\u2019re\u00a0going to drink that one day.\u201d\u00a0Sting grew up the son of a milkman and a hairdresser in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne (he\u2019s joked that his Geordie accent only comes out now when he\u2019s angry) \u2013 he comes from a beer-drinking culture. \u201cI\u2019m still learning [about wine],\u201d he says. Styler grew up in a council house, the daughter of a factory worker and a dinner lady: \u201cOurs wasn\u2019t a wine-drinking family either. My mother drank sherry at Christmas and the occasional Snowball.\u201d Her father did manage a 110-acre farm during the war. \u201cI\u00a0was always around my dad. I had my own veg patch,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you grow up not afraid to grow things, you\u2019re not daunted [by a vineyard].\u201dThey relied on experts including the late US biodynamic consultant Alan York. \u201cHe said, \u2018You\u2019ve got grapes where there should be olives and olives where there should be grapes. You\u2019re going to have to spend an awful lot of money to fix this,\u2019\u201d says Sting. Did they understand what they were getting into? \u201cNo. But Alan inspired us. The idea of finding somewhere less than optimum and making it better appealed to me. And boy, have we made it better.\u201d\u00a0The wine has been reviewed favourably by experts, particularly Sister Moon and Sacred Love (100 per cent Merlot). \u201cMy greatest pleasure is inviting people who know about wine and watching them drink it,\u201d says Sting.\u00a0\u201cBecause celebrity wine \u2013 it\u2019s a low bar. Let\u2019s face it. They drink the wine and go: \u2018Is this yours?\u2019 Yes, it\u2019s\u00a0ours! It does so well, which is very gratifying. We\u2019re\u00a0much too competitive [to settle for average].\u201d \u201cIf\u00a0you\u2019re going to do something, do it well,\u201d says Styler.In some ways the estate has become an extension of\u00a0their relationship, itself a source of fascination. It\u2019s more\u00a0than 30 years since Sting first talked about tantric\u00a0sex and that\u2019s still what most people associate them with. The couple married in 1992 but have been together since\u00a01982. \u201c20 August is our wedding anniversary,\u201d says\u00a0Styler. A few years ago \u201cwe started to share it with the\u00a0locals: cycling over to the farm shop, Sting getting out\u00a0his guitar. There\u2019s a pizzeria. Folks come to enjoy the\u00a0night. They like the idea of [us] sharing that celebration with our community.\u201d\u00a0\u201cI think part of the brand of this [place] is the romance of a couple who\u2019ve been married for 400 years\u2026 how long have we been married?\u201d Sting jokes. What keeps them together? \u201cHe\u2019s my best friend as well as my\u00a0beloved,\u201d says Styler. This elicits mock sobs from Sting. \u201cSo keep living up to it, darling!\u201d Styler chides.\u00a0As a producer, Styler made her name with films including Guy Ritchie\u2019s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Duncan Jones\u2019s Bafta-winning Moon (2009). In 2011 she co-founded Maven Screen Media in order to support female filmmakers and this year is taking Scarlett Johansson\u2019s directorial debut Eleanor the Great to the Cannes Film Festival. \u201cMy work in the trenches has paid off,\u201d she says.\u00a0\u201cOpportunities in the arts are coming through every\u00a0day.\u201d\u00a0Styler\u2019s first documentary, Posso Entrare? An\u00a0Ode to Naples, in which she interviews the city\u2019s inhabitants including Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano, streamed on Disney+ earlier this year.\u00a0She admits she dreaded turning 70, but \u201cnow I\u2019m quite\u00a0cheerful about it\u201d. \u201cNeither of us has picked up our\u00a0bus passes yet,\u201d says Sting. \u201cWe want to live life to its\u00a0fullest as long as we can.\u201d\u00a0As for his songwriting, \u201cyou\u2019re always searching for inspiration\u201d, he says. \u201cAnd it gets harder and harder to write songs because you\u2019re competing against yourself. How did I write that 25 years ago? You have to keep reminding yourself that you don\u2019t create a masterpiece just like that.\u201d Eight years of writer\u2019s block ended in 2011\u00a0when he started work on The Last Ship, a musical inspired by the shipbuilding community he grew up around. \u201cSongwriters tend to be navel-gazing. What do I\u00a0write about? Me. Writing for other characters freed me\u00a0up. That relief was profound.\u201d\u00a0The musical debuted on Broadway in 2014 to middling\u00a0reviews and a lacklustre box office; Sting eventually stepped in to replace the lead Jimmy Nail. Next year he\u2019s taking the role again in Amsterdam, Paris and New York. The show will play in opera houses, not theatres. \u201cIt\u2019s not an opera but it has an operatic scale,\u201d he\u00a0explains. \u201cOnce you get into the opera world, all these\u00a0theatres all over the world are desperate for new [material].\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re not quitters,\u201d adds Styler.\u00a0Sting has called the piece \u201cmy real legacy\u201d \u2013 which is surprising, given his back catalogue of hits. \u201cIt describes the community I came from,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I think for many years I had a debt to that community that was unpaid. That culture made me who I am, gave me the engine to be ambitious, to escape. Having escaped, you need to pay a debt back. It\u2019s a psychological need. The debt to my parents too. They had no opportunity to live this kind of life. They were trapped. So I want to acknowledge that to myself as much as anything; how lucky I\u2019ve been. Going back to where you come from and saying thank you. I\u2019ve survivor\u2019s guilt.\u201dFamily is a source of pleasure, especially being \u201cTutu\u201d and \u201cNonno\u201d to their eight grandchildren aged 10 months to 13 years. \u201cTutu\u201d is what Styler called herself as a child when she was unable to pronounce her own name. \u201cNonno\u201d is Italian for grandfather (\u201cmuch better than granddad\u201d, says Sting). What kind of grandparents are they? \u201cBetter than we were as parents. More tolerant,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cThe kids who are parents are struggling with the things we\u2019d struggle with,\u201d says Styler. \u201cWe gloat,\u201d says Sting. He\u2019s particularly impressed by his wife\u2019s grandmotherly skills: \u201cWatching you entertain these children is staggering. She engages them in very difficult creative play. They make films. Do plays.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re making an original film called The Book of Oracles,\u201d Styler explains. \u201cI\u2019m Queen Andromeda in the play.\u201dFive of Sting\u2019s six children \u2013 Joe (48) and Kate (43) from his first marriage to actress Frances Tomelty and Mickey (41), Jake (39), Eliot (34) with Styler \u2013 have gone into show business as musicians, actors or filmmakers. \u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t think we encouraged them,\u201d says Sting. \u201cThey chose it themselves. They\u2019re all waiting for the next gig.\u00a0It\u2019s tough.\u201d Only their youngest, Giacomo (29), bucked the trend and joined the Metropolitan Police last year. Sting is proud. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty toxic environment but you\u00a0need good cops and he\u2019s a good guy. All his life he\u2019s\u00a0said: \u2018You\u2019re all creatives. I want to do something useful.\u2019\u201d He laughs. \u201cI take his point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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