Can you say Chianti……

Today involved wine, food with wine and more wine.

We spent the day in the Chianti region. Our first stop was at the cellars of Castello de Verrazzano located near Greve in Chianti. The grounds and views from this winery were amazing. You could see forever. We had a tour of the winery then spent a lot of time “tasting”. I had been to some wine tastings in the Niagara Region but this is different. It isn’t a small sampling either, they keep it coming and bring out bread and olive oil, different wines (I think we tasted four different wines here) and the most amazing balsamic vinegar I have ever had.

Then we headed into Panzano in Chianti and had what was called a “light lunch” on the top floor of a Tuscan butcher shop – the owner is the famous Tuscan butcher – Dario Cecchini. This is what they consider a “light lunch” (with wine).

We then spent some time in Radda and then headed to the cellars at Castello di Brolio.

Me in Radda.

The second winery was very different from the one we visited in the morning. More high tech and elaborate. There were three different wines we tried here. Check out this table we had the tasting at…….