DAY TRIPS TUSCANY - CHIANTI WINE AREA
  (12 Hrs  from  07:00 or 08:00 A.M.)



THIS TRIP BIGINS AND CONCLUDES IN ROME UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED BY OUR CLIENT. DIFFERENT RATES WILL BE APPLIED IF DAY TRIP DOESN’T START OR ENDS IN ROME CITY.

We will pick you up at your hotel or wherever you wish by our air conditioned vehicles.
Our skilled multilingual driver guides will show you the most interesting places of the city by giving you the key information from the car without coming within sites.
Qualified stores for shopping will be suggested.

Driving from Rome To Tuscany region we will reach Chianti Wine Area in about 03:00 hrs.

Your driver will show you places like: RADDA, GAIOLE and CASTELLINA  in CHIANTI, the 3 most important towns of the  Chianti Wine Area.
You will have the opportunity to drive & walk in the narrow streets of these medieval towns full of local food and wine stores, souvenirs and outdoor cafés.
We'll also drive you to visit some wineries where you'll have wine testings of the Classic Chianti Wine that you could purchase at factory prices.
Time for lunch (price not included) in a typical local restaurant.

In the afternoon we will drive you back to Rome City.



OUR FLEET
Mercedes E Class
or equivalent up to 3 pax
Mercedes Vito/Viano
or equivalent up to 5 pax
Mercedes Sprinter
or equivalent up to 8 pax
550 € 600 € 670 €
Price includes driver guide for whole tour and does not include gratuities

Accepted payments: U.S. Dollars,Euro, Traveller's cheques.
Prices include driver guide for whole tour

TUSCANY - CHIANTI WINE AREA

Chianti is a famous red wine of Italy, which takes its name from a traditional region of Tuscany where it is produced. It used to be easily identified by its squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called fiasco; however, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now; most Chianti is bottled in traditionally shaped wine bottles.
Low-end Chianti is fairly inexpensive,with a basic Chianti running less than US$10 for a bottle. More sophisticated Chiantis, however, are made and sold at substantially higher prices.
Today, Chianti is generally consumed at room (technically cellar) temperature, like most other red wines.
Until the middle of the 19th century Chianti was based solely on Sangiovese grapes. During the second half of the 19th century Baron Bettino Ricasoli who was an important Chianti producer and, in the same time, minister in Tuscany and then Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy, imposed his ideas: from that moment on Chianti should have been produced with 70% Sangiovese, 15% Canaiolo and 15% Malvasia bianca (Malvasia bianca is an aromatic white grape with Greek origins).
During the 1970s, producers started to reduce the quantity of white grapes in Chianti and eventually from 1995 it is legal to produce a Chianti with 100% sangiovese, or at least without the white grapes. However, for a wine to retain the name of Chianti, it must be produced with at least 80% Sangiovese grapes. It may have a picture of a black rooster (known in Italian as a gallo nero) on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the "Gallo Nero" Consortium; an association of producers of the Classico sub-area sharing marketing costs. Since 2005 the black rooster is the emblem of the Chianti Classico producers association.
Aged Chianti (38 months instead of 4-7), may be labelled as Riserva.
Chianti that meets more stringent requirements,(lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract) may be labelled as Chianti Superiore. Chianti from the "Classico" sub-area is not allowed in any case to be labelled as "Superiore".

   
 




 
       
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