Chianti Classico, Montalcino, Montepulciano By Minivan: Wine Tastings & Lunch

We had a great time. Our guide was very helpful and made a great experience for all of us!

Great experience with a great guide/driver. A fantastic day out, not only for wine buffs. Magical scenery throughout the tour.

We felt the length of time spent at the second vineyard was too long and it cut into the time we had at the next two stops

Very good day Second winery was not so good

The w vineyards we visited were very informative and professional Our guide Benito was spectacular, kind and caring

Benito was a fabulous guide! He added a additional stop at the cemetery where 4400 American soldiers are buried since the group was all Americans. How great was that! The scenery was amazing! As was the wine and food. Take this tour!! It's worth every penny.

Our guide, Benito, was the best! Punctual, funny and made our experience so much fun. He was knowledgeable and great to converse with, getting us there and back safely. 10/10 would recommend!

Benito was incredible! We had an amazing time

The guide, Sandro was so positive and friendly! He was very knowledgeable and very helpful with all of our questions. The staff at the wine tasting also made the experience incredibly fun!

We had a most memorable and enjoyable day experiencing Tuscany wine country. Our guide Jacobo was so knowledgeable of the culture and history of Italy in general. He made our day we will always remember visiting the Chianti wine country!

We had a fabulous day with our friends on this wine tour. Our driver was great, friendly, and a wealth of information. Our wine tours were amazing. I would highly recommend this tour.

Lovely excursion with only 4 of us. Great to see that part of Italy. Breath-taking views. Good wine. Jacopo was knowledgeable and kind. Would recommend

Jacopo was very informative about the area as well as the attractions that we visited. He was an excellent driver and very professional and polite.

A full day in the Tuscany area enjoying Chianti and Brunello wines. Lunch at one of the wineries was excellent. Since you spend almost 4 hours in the van on some pretty windy roads, this may not ne the tour for you if you get car sick.

had a very nice day. enjoyed the wine, the food, and our driver/tour guide Jacopo was excellent and very knowledgeable, friendly.

Leo was a great host on our wine tasting tour. Very friendly and informative. He shared great stories and insights that added a great value to our trip. We thoroughly enjoy our trip.

We had an amazing time at the vineyards. The guides were very informative about the history of the area, and the wine making process.

This was my favorite tour of all! We visited two wineries, and also stopped in Siena. Our guide was knowledgeable and personable. Highly recommend!

I was very surprised and disappointed at how much time we spent driving. I would have preferred to have traveled around Chianti and maybe visit a small town in that area. The wine tasting in Montepulciano was so rushed and forced; the gal was just hurriedly going through her sales pitch. I felt no desire to buy anything from her. Stopping at the “Gladiator” house was completely unnecessary. That movie came out in 2000 and some people on our trip had never even heard of it. This day was supposed to be a big highlight of our trip but it was not.

Great guide Mauricio, both wineries were accommodating and excellent. The scenery was amazing as we drove throughout Tuscany, Montepulciano was particularly amazing!

We had an awesome time on this tour. Our driver, Paolo, was very helpful and informative. Thank you Paolo!! There were only 4 of us on the tour, which was very nice. We had free time in Greve, Montalcino and Montepulciano. The drive was breathtaking! We visited 2 vinyards for tasting. Lunch was served at Paradiso, which was also spectacular. It was a fantastic day!

Giovanni was excellent. Such a beautiful, wonderful tour. Will definitely do it again. Highly recommend

The landscape on the drive was surreal, everyone fell in love with Andrea at Mazzarrini. The wine selections were fantastic, and the Brunellos with pasta lunch put me in a coma on the drive back. 10/10 would recommend!

Booked this for my wife and I. Turned out we were the only two for the tour so we were picked up in a Mercedes sedan which was nice. Our guide and driver was Carlo. Carlo was an excellent guide, with LOTS of wine knowledge and of Tuscany in general. That was a real plus to learn so much as we drove from place to place. We decided to skip Greve and instead made a quick stop at Piazzale Michelangelo for some nice morning pictures, and then visited the American Cemetery near Tavarnuzze which was serene but sobering. We then went to first winery called Poggio Amorelli. Was a smaller producer, but beautiful scenery and terrace location where we had wine tastings paired with meats, cheese and bread. Very good experience here and we were only ones so had their undivided attention (felt special). Ended up purchasing wines to have shipped to us. We tasted a few of the grapes on the vine, as they were probably within one week of harvest. We then had a quick visit to the town of Montalcino and walked around there for about 40 minutes which was plenty. Nice little medieval town. Then proceeded to the second winery, Paradiso di Cacuci, to have more tastings and a full lunch. Wines included Brunello and Super Tuscan, and the lunch was so much food and excellent too. Again we were only ones there at the time and the host was so enthusiastic and letting us try different vintages of the Brunello. We definitely got our money's worth in wine and food on this tour! Afterwards it was on to Montepulciano, our last stop. Beautiful medieval town that the driver dropped us off at the top and we then could walk down (all downhill) through the village and do some shopping and have a gelato. Great views out over the Tuscan countryside, and a good way to finish the day. Then the ride back to Florence and Carlo took some back roads closer to Florence to avoid the traffic. All in all a very nice day, beautiful scenery, good wines and food, great guide, and just a great way to spend a Sunday in Tuscany! Highly recommend.

With my limited time I have in Tuscany and with a mediocre tour that I took with my family the day prior, this tour was a savior. It was a Ling day and it was only 3 people total and we went to 3 different wineries (Poggio Amorelli, Tornessi and Ercolani) and visited villages of Greve, Montepulciano and Montalcino. Guido, our guide, was informative and engaging. The only thing I would recommend is doing this tour during the season (April-October) while daylight is a little longer and perhaps could have visited the said places longer and maybe visited another town like Montreggioni as our group was a bit of a rush since we needed to be in Montepulciano before sun down as we know in November in Europe, sun down goes a little bit early. Nonetheless, this tour is highly recommended since it’s a small group with a better lunch than the big bus tour that we did the day prior from the same tour company.

We had a lovely day visiting two wineries and two towns. The driver was very nice and did a good job of getting us around but really was just that...a driver rather than a tour guide. The people at the wineries were informative and enthusiastic. Views are beautiful.

We had the best time with Sergio. The Tuscan countryside was breathtaking and the wineries that they chose for us were perfect, smaller family owned establishments which were very personal. Our homemade lunch was the best pasta I have ever had, made as we sat and enjoyed the wine. Absolutely delightful day all around. Sergio was very helpful and knowledgable about the region and most accomodating to any of our needs. Nothing but good things to say!

<p>Patricio was very good. The tour was excellent, I'd recommend it highly. It is a long day though.<br/> Guide was very knowledgeable of Italian history and most willing to share info. He stopped often for us to take pictures</p>

<p>This tour was simply spectacular. Our driver, Nicholas, was very friendly and informative. We spent the day exploring a number of small medieval towns in the Tuscan countryside. The highlight, of course, was the wine tasting. We visited a vineyard in Castellina in Chianti where we sampled some spectacular Tuscan wine while overlooking the beautiful rolling hills of the vineyard. We were also treated to meat, cheese, bread, and olive oil and balsamic tastings as well. The second tasting was at a storefront for a vineyard in Montepulciano with another round of great wines and accompaniments. We were able to order wine from both vineyards to be shipped to our home in the US. All of our bottles arrived within a few weeks in perfect condition. We could not recommend this tour more.</p>

<p>Great driver- beautiful vistas- enjoyed the small group and flexibility. enjoyed the first winery the most, by far</p>

<p>This was a wonderful day and a great way to see a lot of Tuscany all at once. There is a lot of driving, but the scenery is so gorgeous that I didn't mind. The first two wineries we visited were beautiful and our hosts were so welcoming and passionate about what they do. Can't say enough about how much we enjoyed those experiences. <br/> The only negative- the third wine-tasting is really just a sip at one of the free places in Montelpuciano, not a true winery tour, so that was disappointing. I left wanting to visit one more vineyard. </p> <p>All around a really beautiful day.</p>

<p>The food ,the wine,the scenery was next to none .this was a fabulous day and I cant wait for my order to arrive in Australia from the vineyard.</p>

<p>This was an excellent tour and I would definitely recommend this day trip from Florence for anyone who likes wine, or even just likes a drive through the hills of Chianti and into the area south of Siena. Our tour guide, Luca, was a delight, and very knowledgeable. He was very pleasant and personable, and was outgoing and friendly. We stopped at 2 outstanding wineries - one in Chianti Castellina and another near Montalcino. We also stopped in Greve and saw the main square of this typical Chianti town. Luca was a great driver and was open to doing whatever the group wanted. He never tired and kept all of us very engaged. There was never a dull moment -- everyone on the trip a small group got to know each other, and we had a great time as a group, and a great shared experience with Luca. The wineries we stopped at were wonderful - and it was such a treat to sample wines that would grace the tables of fine Florentine restaurants. Our hosts at these wineries treated us like family and were clearly professionals at making wine. These wineries were family run, and had a charm that only a family organization can give. But these wineries made top-flight wines, and a lot of wine.</p>

<p>My husband and I enjoyed this tour very much. Our driver, Tomasso, was great. The wineries were excellent, the scenery beautiful, and Tomasso made sure we had plenty of opportunities to stop and take photos throughout the day. There was a flea market going on in the town square in Greve-in-Chianti and a flea market/carnival in Montepulciano which we felt detracted from the charm of both towns. We did this tour on a Sunday which may account for these distractions. Nevertheless, we would certainly recommend this tour.</p>

<p>I loved this wine tour! First off, Sergio, our driver and tour guide was wonderful. Not only is he very knowledgeable about the wine areas, he is such an interesting person, with an amazing personality. All of the people on our tour where American, 6 of us total, and Sergio spoke perfect English. We traveled across several wine regions, 4 town stops including Greve to walk around, Castellina private tour and wine tasting, Montalcino private tour, lunch with 4 bottles of wine to share/taste, and then our last stop was Montepulciano...where we had 1.5 hours to walk around and explore. We are from San Francisco, and spoiled with all the many beautiful and famous wine regions. If you are staying in/around Florence, Tuscany is not to be missed! The drive alone, all along the rolling hills, castles, hill towns, made this trip 100 worth it. I loved every bit of it! It is a long day, with many curvy roads beware for those that get car sick and a perfect tour if you want to see all that Tuscany has to offer. Ask for Sergio...you will not regret it! I hope to make it back again to explore more wine regions in Tuscany. Ciao!</p>

<p>We had a really lovely day touring Tuscany, and Walter was an excellent tour host. We stopped in Greve, had an amazing tasting at Poggio Amorelli, a delicious tasting and light lunch at Carpazo in Montalcino, and ambled around Montelpulciano for a bit. We wish we had more time in Montelpulciano, but that was our fault for staying so long in Montalcino! Overall it was a great value and a memorable day- recommended.</p>

<p>This tour exceeded all my expectations. I have taken other Chianti tours...this was best in large part due to our fabulous guide ALDO!! He was professional friendly and a wealth of information. I would take any other tour with him as the guide highly recommended !!!</p>

<p>Gorgeous views and wonderful, wonderful wine. If you're looking for a tour that allows a significant amount of time to explore Greve and Montepulciano, I'm not sure if this would be a good fit for you.</p>

<p>We had a wonderful trip with a great driver who was a wealth of information.</p>

<p>Excellent tour. Scenery was beautiful. The wine was superior. Guide was pleasant.</p>

<p>This trip was for us an International delight. Touring montepulciana was the best part of the trip. We had 5 other people with us and all from different countries . The conversations were all energetic. Would I recommend this trip , yes. The country is beautiful</p>

<p>Our guide was terrific and the tour was an excellent way to see a lot in a day. Great experience.</p>

Constantine and Ferdinando's work was great! Perfect time control, great command of the 3 languages we had present, very good data and an excellent attitude! 100% recommended