Guides, wine regions, travel tips and experiences from our team in Florence — everything we've learned planning wine trips across Tuscany, Piedmont and Veneto.
Guides
A day-by-day itinerary through Chianti Classico, Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano — Tuscany's four most prestigious DOCG regions in one trip.
Wine Regions
The Chiantigiana (road SR222) winds from Florence to Siena through the heart of Chianti Classico country — here's how to navigate it.
Wine Regions
Bolgheri is where the Super Tuscan wine movement began in 1968 — a guide to the region's top estates, from Tenuta San Guido to Ornellaia.
Wine Regions
San Gimignano's Vernaccia was the first Italian wine ever to receive DOC status, back in 1966 — Tuscany's only DOCG white wine.
Travel Tips
Shipping home has its advantages, and these are all cost-related.
Wine Regions
Inside the Montalcino production area, its unique microclimate, and the Sangiovese Grosso grape that defines Brunello.
Guides
From Sicily's volcanic Etna to Piedmont's Langhe, Tuscany's rolling hills, Veneto's Prosecco road, and Puglia's sun-baked vineyards — Italy's five essential wine routes.
Travel Tips
From Castello di Velona to Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco — where to stay in Montalcino, Brunello country, home to over 250 wineries.
Wine Regions
A map of Montalcino's best Brunello estates, from Fattoria dei Barbi to Capanna, with the terroir that shapes the wine.
Wine Regions
Chianti Rùfina is one of the smallest DOCG sub-zones of Chianti — cooler, higher-altitude, and often overlooked next to Chianti Classico.
Wine Regions
A restricted, high-altitude wine zone within Chianti Rufina, protected since Cosimo III de' Medici's rulebook of 1716.
Wine Regions
"Montepulciano of every wine is King" — Italy's first-ever DOCG wine, made from Sangiovese known locally as Prugnolo Gentile.
Travel Tips
The basics of matching wine and food — identifying flavor components in both, and why balance matters more than rigid rules.
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