Visit to the Cellars Tuscany Italy

Tuscany wine Tour of the most famous Cellars: Bolgheri, Chianti, Montalcino, Montepulciano...

For those of you interested in more than just tasting wines of Tuscany. We can organise trips to the cellars of famous Tuscan cellars in the vineyards. Here you can tour the cellars and have a guided tour discovering the process of wine production for the planting and farming of the vines. The harvesting of the grapes, the pressing, processing of the wine. Through to the ageing usually in oak barrels. Finally bottling when matured. See how different vineyards approach the process of wine production in different ways. All trying to achieve the project blend. From the large cellars of producers such as Castello Banfi and Frescobaldi through to family owned and run vineyards we can arrange tours to suite everyone. You can even enjoy a week touring vineyards and cellars in the famous Chianti and Rufina region of Tuscany by horse back if you wish for more information contact us at Magic tuscany Holidays in Tuscany with a difference.

Castello Banfi is the crown of a 7,100 acre viti-vinicultural estate. Estate-bottled wines that are being produced today include: ExcelsuS, SummuS, Cum Laude, Brunello di Montalcino, Poggio all'Oro Brunello di Montalcino, Poggio alle Mura Brunello di Montalcino, Tavernelle Cabernet Sauvignon, Colvecchio Syrah, Mandrielle Merlot, Fontanelle Chardonnay, Blanc, San Angelo Pinot Grigio and FloruS Moscadello di Montalcino, a dessert wine.

The Castello Banfi estate is a constellation of single vineyards. These include the award-winning Poggio all'Oro (36 acres of Brunello), Tavernelle (243 acres of Cabernet Sauvingon), Mandrielle (43 acres Merlot), Belnero (30 acres of Pinot Noir), Colvecchio (30 acres of Syrah), Fontanelle (100 acres of Chardonnay), Serena (30 acres of Sauvignon Blanc) and San Angelo (243 acres of Pinot Grigio). The slopes offer great possibilities for site selection by variety, Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio, for example, are grown at between 750 and 1,380 feet above sea level, where the nights are cool and the ripening season long. Chardonnay is the most widely planted white grape while Brunello, the local small-berried version of Sangiovese, is the principal red variety, covering approximately 365 acres.