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Suggestions/recommendation for Tuscany?
DH wants to do two days of "wine tours in wine country," and I'm a little lost. I assume there are vineyards all over - how do I choose? Any recommendations? Should we use Florence for a base, or stay one night in the "countryside" somewhere? He also wants to rent scooters and drive around.
Thanks!
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Re: Suggestions/recommendation for Tuscany?
Hi!
I haven't been yet, but we are backpacking in Italy this summer, and just bought our plane tickets. We are spending 3 days in Greve in Chianti (in Tuscany) at an "agriturismo" (acting winery/bed and breakfast). I haevn't been yet, but have done a LOT of research. There seems to be a lot of choices to stay and they all look great. We ended up reserving at Casa Nova- La Ripenta at: http://www.greve-in-chianti.com/casanova.htm . I found lots of places at www.vrbo.com, as well as http://www.bella-toscana.com/tuscan_wineries.htm.
Since I knew NOTHING about Italy, I sign up for a free account at http://www.virtualtourist.com/ and am frequently on the Italy board. There are people that have been there several times and even live there that have made some AWESOME recommendations as faras places to stay, care rental, getting around, etc! It has been very helpful.
We are renting a car and driving around for 3 days. I am not sure about the scooters, but it would be super fun! When do you plan to go?
My aunt recommended this winery for a superb tour: http://www.verrazzano.com/en/ and someone on here recommended this winery for a tour: http://www.felsina.it/I_Vini_di_Felsina. From what I understand it is not like the US/CA where you can just stop at a bunch of wineries, but you have to make appointments for tastings and tours, etc.
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We did a day tour to Greve and the Verrazzano winery referenced above. Great olive oil, too!i think we arranged our tour through Verbena Blu and were picked up from our hotel in Florence. Sorry, it was 2005 so I'm trying to recall the details!
The good news, virtually every Tuscan town I've been to (I've been to a lot) is charming, so it's hard to go wrong. For wine, I'd recommend radda in chianti or montepulciano in southern Tuscany. You need a car (or driver) to get to radda; whereas montepulciano is accessible by train then cab.
dh and i stayed a week in radda in chianti. after much debate re: B&B or agritourismo in countryside OR staying in a town the town won. since we were there for a week we didnt want to be stuck eating/being at the same place all week. radda was perfect. a few enotecas, a few restaurants, a few shops. perfect.
scooters? i wouldn't personally. the towns are far apart generally and there's nearly no shoulder on the roads getting to and from them. and the roads are very hilly and twisty. if you plan on doing wine tastings dont rent a car-hire a driver through the hotel to avoid the whole drinking and driving issue.
we stayed in florence for 3 nights and then had a car drive us to radda. we booked one winery tour with our hotel and the other days we hired drivers and went all over the place-siena, lucca, pisa, san gimignano, volterra, greve etc.. etc.. etc ...
keep in mind the parking in a lot of these towns is EXTREMELY limited and some of the parking areas are quite far/down a steep hill from the actual town as when they were built there weren't any cars.
Yum, multipulciano. Tasty stuff
I didn't do any wine tours there, but I sat at lots of different enotecas drinking different wines.
Make sure you check ahead of time since it's low season. I found lots of places were closed for the whole month of March. Florence was fine, but the smaller towns were a bit deserted.