Angie’s Wine Tour in Florence
If you or your parents were fans of Merchant Ivory films in the 1980s, it’s possible you (or they) may have stirred up a passion for all things Italian by watching “A Room with a View,” starring Maggie Smith, Daniel Day Lewis, and Helena Bonham Carter, where a young woman travels to Florence, Italy, in the early 1900s. Her adventures there follow her back to England and transform her life forever — allowing her to free herself from a stuffy fiance and finally embrace her true love who she met in that Italian city. If you also choose to go to Italy and stay overnight in a hotel, Florence may or may not transform your life, but you’ll never know unless you give it a try. While waiting for true love to arrive, why not take in a tour of the wine territory with Angie’s Wine Tours ?
A licensed wine tour guide, Angela Saltafuori offers private and shared tours through Tuscany’s wine country, ideal for a day trip out of Florence. For instance, the Chianti Castles and Wine Tours special will take you to the core of the wine territory between Florence and Sienna. In no time at all, you’ll be wine tasting with a personal sommelier, discover how chianti Classico wine is made, take walks through the vineyard, and learn about the sangiovese, the main Tuscan grape, as well as about the rich soil of the area.
The tour includes trips to castle wineries, where you’ll take a look at ancient castles and medieval cellars, and enjoy red wine tasting with choices of Tuscan ham, salami, cheeses, and the local olive oil. At this vineyard, you’ll hear a talk about wines and olive oil, and then have lunch, either in a restaurant or inside the castle itself.
In the afternoon, the tour will take you either to Montefioralle , a village that’s been around since the 11th Century. Before the tour is complete, there’s one more visit to a winery in a 14th Century villa in the Classico area.
Tours begin at ten in the morning and end around five or six in the evening, plenty of time to return to Florence for dinner and then return to the hotel to see if true love has actually arrived.
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June 24th, 2010 at 5:48 am
Nice Blog ! Thanks for sharing great information about wine tour in Florence. blog article is really very useful and informative.
June 26th, 2010 at 7:54 am
I did a great tour with Angie just the other day and can highly recommend her. I see that she has a new website at http://www.tuscanwinetours.net/