Home Alone With A Camera
credit: VirtualErn

Most of the largest wineries in Chianti Classico, Montalcino, and Montepulciano, now offer the chance to taste and buy directly from the estates.

Some have moved into catering too, expanding their tasting rooms into small taverns, restaurants, or wine bars.

Nowadays there are many bikers that have joined biking with wine tasting, organizing their personal self-guided wine tour. Every stage consists in a visit to an estate where you can taste their wine, living a new and particular trip experience.

Kloster Sant' Antimo
[Montalcino - credit: drfist2001]

You can visit the Museo della Comunità di Montalcino e del Brunello, with a collection of artifacts, including children’s games and winemaking tools, showing the history of the local community and the area’s long wine-growing traditions.

Other interesting thing in Montalcino is the new touristic experiment called: “Treno del Vino” (the wine train). It consist in the transformation of Montalcino’s abandoned train station into a multitasking wine space that will house a “Virtual Museum of Wine”, a research center, a wine cellar, and a shop where you can taste and buy Tuscany wine. The station is reached from Siena on a vintage train.

Fields of Tuscany (2006-05-483)
[Around Siena - credit: Argenberg]

Another initiative launched in 2007 is “Degustazioni ad Arte” (art tastings), wich pairs memorable wines with memorable works of art in various locations around the province of Siena.

In Tuscany you can join bike tour with wine tasting, with a great possibility of choice

Here a list of the most famous wine of Tuscany

  • Chianti Classico
  • Brunello di Montalcino
  • Tignanello
  • Solaia Annata Diversa
  • Chianti Classico Piccolo Borgo
  • Rosso di Montalcino
  • Bolgheri Superiore Guado al Tasso
  • Sassicaia

Here the names of the zones where Tuscany wine is produced. The region considered is the central countryside:

  • Chianti Classico
  • Chianti colli fiorentini
  • Chianti Rufina
  • Chianti Montalbano
  • Chianti colline pisane
  • Chianti colli senesi
  • Chianti colli aretini

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