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Found a directory of winery tours with the links to companies that do them:
http://www.winery-tours.com/ |
Another directory of wine tour driver/guides here: http://www.bella-toscana.com/tuscany_wine_tours.htm
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You don't not need to hire a tour guide unless you want to spend the money. I contacted many wineries, big, small and family owned, and several e-mailed me back with a great welcome and said that the tour/tasting was free. You MUST have a car in Tuscany and I would highly suggest a GPS--it was wonderful!
Villa Caffaggio in Panzano was incredible, friendly, and beautiful AND FREE. Also in Panzano is a small, family winery, La Fonti...nice, quaint, beautiful view, free. Also, in San Gimignano http://www.casaallevacche.it/it_azienda.html (this vineyard and area produces the vernacchia wine) and FREE. In Poggiobonsi (not the newer city, on the hill) Fattoria Ormanni--beautiful place (one of the Medici properties), very nice people, FREE. I planned each day which areas we would visit and planned the wineries based on those areas. Panzano is close but hilly and winding. Greve is right next to there. I didn't plan Greve tours since it would be a little further out of the way from our location. Poggiobonsi, Barberino Val d'Elsa, San Gim. all very, very close together, as well as Certaldo. Hope this helps! |
the email address for allesandro got cut off. Can you give it to me to arrange wine tour??
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this is an old post but I had to check out this guy Alessandro. I was in Florence last week with my dh and two girls - and dh went back to the apartment after diner while the girls and I went to get Gelato. I met the most charming two men - and the girls thought it was a riot (they insist they were flirting with me) turns out this man - Alessandro states he is a tour guide of the Tuscany region and through chatting he says he is mentioned the Frodors boards.. I am slightly sceptial but low and behold here he is.
I see here that it says he lives in another area but he was in Florence that night... |
oh and btw, he did give me his email and it is:
[email protected] I hope that is right - the writing is a little hard to read. |
we used corrado at tourascany.
he was wonderful- he picked us up at our hotel in florence and we made many stops along the way to our final destination in rome. |
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Next June we will be going from Florence to Cinque Terre thru Tuscany with one night stay somewhere. Can anyone recommend a wonderful place to stay one night where we could also visit some of these wineries you are all recommending. Are there any small tour groups that include a night stay in Tuscany?
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Does one need to book a wine tour in advance or it can be done right there in Florence? What approach would you recommend?
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We recently did a group wine tour with Rebecca from Tuscan Wine Tours and highly recommend it! http://www.tuscan-wine-tours.com/
We were looking for a small tour but also not terribly expensive. This was a great solution, although Rebecca also does private tours. On our tour there were 4 of us in total and we visited 2 wineries which included olive oil tasting and a homemade lunch. Wonderful! Enjoy your trip! |
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I mentioned this already in another post but we really enjoyed our tour with Todd Bolton. It included a delicious italian meal, a tour of 3-4 vineyards and was the most reasonable my husband and i had found. It was from 10-4 and it was worth every penny.
Tuscan Trails www.tuscantrails.com |
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Last year my wife and I took a <a href="http://www.cellartours.com/italy/win...ot;>chianti wine tour</a> with CellarTours, a private company that specializes in private tours to wineries in Chianti. I must say we had a truely wonderful time. We visited Badia a Coltibuono and Capannelle wineries, which are both excellent producers and I personally love their wines. Afterwards we went to a wonderful charming local restaurant and had a five course lunch which I can only describe as "heaven on a plate". Our driver and guide were both fantastic and spoke perfect english, I just wish we had longer.
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I highly recommend Corrado at Tourscany.He was wonderful he picked us up at our hotel in Florence and we made many stops along the way to our final destination in Rome.
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