Just another day in Florence. All the street vendors store their carts in a warehouse just down the alley from us. Every morning they roll their carts along the alley. Not quite like hearing the birds singing, but close enough.
Today is our wine tour. Although we are not “tour people,” a tour was probably the best way to see a little of the Tuscan hills and taste some Tuscan wines. To minimize the risk of being seen as a tourist, we selected the “small group” tour, and selected the half day tour.
As it turned out, the tour was great, we learned about IGT and “Docg” wines. As a vineyard, you need to make IGT wines for five years, following all the rules, and then you can make “Doc” wines for ten years before you make “Docg” which is Chianti. In other words, it’s very complicated, and you should be honored to be allowed to drink it. We bought a few bottles along the way, with the promise that we would sip it slowly with a fine meal! Just for the record, the vineyards we visited were Tenuta San Vito and Villa Ilangi.
The wine tour also offered a charcuterie which was either a meal or a snack depending on who you ask. For dinner, we split 1/2 a chicken.
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