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The wine barrel: teacher of wisdom and life

The arrival at one of the wineries of our Tuscany wine tours is always fascinating. The countryside is colored like a painter’s palette, the dominant color is bright green, the tall cypress trees mark the private property and outline the…

Sensuality and knowledge in Chianti wine region

Travelling is to know. And only an experience that involves body and soul, mind and senses, can become knowledge. The day tours from Florence we offer, will literally plunge you in the experience of being in Tuscany, one of the richest regions in…

Tuscan wines as precious fabrics

«Dantès commanded Jacopo that … some dried fruit and a bottle  of Tuscan wine had to complete the composition of the meal». This short sentence does not tell of any person, nor just a lover of upscale Italian wines, but…

Tuscany: the hills of Chianti

The farmers in this period of the year control the damage done by cold and rainy winter, one of the first of the vineyard maintenance work is the inspection and replacement of the poles that hold up the vines and…

Chianti and Tuscan wine tours with Angie

My tuscan wine and tours: a Chianti  spaceship You don’t need to be an astronaut. Imagine yourself in your living room, sitting comfortably, around you some dear friends and the person you love, together you are watching with great curiosity…

Italian wines: the vine is awakening

The vine is awakening, in all Italian wine regions, those of Chianti, Amarone, Bardolino, Barolo… you can see this spectacular phenomenon, for the moment only hinted. In fact the just awakened vines are, for the moment, very… naked! So they…

When was chianti wine created?

Did you know that Chianti region, as we know it, was born in the XIX century thanks to the genius and determination of some men of that time? The most important of all was Bettino Ricasoli, Baron of Brolio, also…

Is the snow good or bad for the vineyard?

Who had the good fortune to do, in these days, the tuscany wine tour, he discovered a new landscape and a new dimension of Tuscany, a region not very accustomed to the snow, it was enough for a splash and…

Wine Tours from Florence

In Italy we say “I see red!” to mean that we are angry, because red is the color of passion, here used in a lively and popular expression. But when we take part in wine tasting tours in the Chianti…