Thematic tours

Wine tour
Trekking outside the city walls
The Etruscans
Romanesque Churches and Abbeyes
Walks through art,nature and wine
Food and wine Siena Walks
Villas, castles, gardens

TOURS

WINE TOUR Two full days

If Tuscany is one of the most exciting wine regions in the world, the Siena territory concentrates more DOCs and DOCGs  of every other Italian province.
You will know our docg wines through our wonderful gastronomic itinerary that, at the same time , is cultural and historical.
The wines to the north of Siena:
Country roads running across wine-yards, ancient stone farm- houses and a postcard landscapes covered in castles and Romanesque churches: this is the Chianti Classico docg area.
Then towards west where the skyline of fourteen towers breaks the regular profile of the surrounding hills. This is an ancient place built along the merchants’ ways : more than any other the synonym of the Middle-Ages where wine is produced since the beginning of its history: the Vernaccia di San Gimignano docg  has got an ancient story.
The wines to the south of Siena:
The Renaissance beauty of a town with its wonderful, historical cellars all dug under the ancient patrician palaces : it is here where the Nobile di Montepulciano docg wine ,today like yesterday, improves. Its castle divides the western side, where the most full-bodied and lasting wines are produced, from the northern one where, instead, the gentleness of  perfumes prevails. Anyway the Brunello di Montalcino docg  is the most well known Italian wine in the world.
 
 

Vines trained up
Vines are spontaneous plants typical of the Mediterranean countries .Only in the 7th century B.C. the Etruscans learnt how to grow them thanks to their relationships  with the Greeks. For the first time vines were introduced along the coasts of Giglio Island and Argentario like isolated, very shortly pruned plants  cultivated according to the Greek way. An original  growing method was instead used for the inland : to have the vines supported by the branches of the trees close to them. The so called vine trained up that been born : but he grapes at the height of 5 or 6 metres did not ripe well. This is the reason why  honey, herbs and spices were added to wine.Rare examples of these vines  survive in some of our areas and  they are still called “in the Etruscan way”.