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  • Highlights
    ● Guided 7 hr excursion by our English speaking expert Grape Guide! ● Visit 2 wine regions: Chianti & Chianti Classico (with tastings of Chianti, Chianti Classico, Riserva and Super Tuscans) ● Visit 2 exquisite wineries with tours of vineyards & cellars. ● Tasting of some of Tuscany's best olive oils & cheeses. ● Lunch at the famous butcher Dario Cecchini with a sampling of meats & Bistecca!
  • Itinerary Super Chianti
    Super Chianti is an amazing day trip that takes you from Florence into the super picturesque and delicious Chianti & Chianti Classico regions. We meet at the Grape Tours office where you will check in and get ready for the tour. After just half an hour's ride, we reach the beautiful Chianti region and kick off the day at an old Tuscan farmhouse winery and learn about the grape-to-bottle process. Once we've covered every aspect of the winemaking, we sit down to taste 4 beautiful wines accompanied by fresh olive oil and sheep's milk cheeses made at the winery's own dairy farm. Our next stop is in Panzano in Chianti at the notorious butcher Dario Cecchini. We'll enjoy a delicious lunch featuring four meat dishes inspired by Dario's family recipes and a taste of the famous Bistecca alla Fiorentina. After lunch, continue to the next winery where we will be treated to a private tour and learn about the traditions of the oldest wine region of the world!
  • Price & Tour Info
    Price: from €195 per person (all-inclusive, yet you're always welcome to tip your guide) Time of departure: 10 am (when a 10 am tour is full and if we can, we will start a second tour at 9 am) Meeting point: Grape Tours office in Via dei Renai 19, Florence. Possibility of pick-up outside Florence (Galluzzo) available: YES Total time: Around 7 hrs When: From Mondays through Saturdays Size: min 3 - 8 pp (if the tour doesn't reach min number of participants we will contact you with alternatives) Distance: 45 mins approx Min age to participate: 16 yrs Allergy-friendly? Yes, make sure to mention to your guide. Wines tasted: Mainly reds.

Private tours are exclusively for the party of people who have booked.

 

No group-ups will occur.

 

Grape Tours' private tours are fully escorted and include the roundtrip from Florence.

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Private tours are ideal for groups of 2 to 8 people.

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In our all-inclusive private tours, 2 winery visits are included with tastings and a typical Tuscan lunch.

 

Our choice of wineries is based on two decades of experience. We love to support family-run wineries, and organic or sustainable farms.

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VERNACCIA DI SAN GIMIGNANO

Wineries: Around 70

Total square hectares: Around 730

Total production: Around 5.5 MM bottles

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Also a region inhabited first by the Etruscans, some of the first written information about the Vernaccia is to be found in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

First DOC wine region of Italy in 1966.

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Even though the region of San Gimignano overlaps a small part of the Sienese Chianti, the most important characteristic grape is Vernaccia di San Gimignano. Sangiovese remains the second most grown grape in the area. 

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The white Vernaccia di San Gimignano is Tuscany's only DOCG white wine. Most of it is fresh and bottled in spring after harvest, but also a Riserva is made, oak-aged and fuller-bodied, worthy of aging. 

The area also makes San Gimignano DOC, an appellation that allows for a little bit of everything, and, of course, Chianti.

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