* Tour prices include transportation and wine, but are exclusive of overnight charges and meals. A surcharge of € 75/person/day is applied for touring the following areas or appellations: Amarone, Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello, Bolgheri. Longer than 5 days requires booking of minimum 8 months ahead of schedule and will be priced upon request.
Special courses:
Take it all: 3 days Wine Tasting and Two days Pasta Works € 850/participant (min 3 participants)
Full Emersion: 2 days Touring the Wine Roads with Jens Schmidt and 1 day Grand chef Class
€ 1800 for single participant
€ 2300 for two participants
€ 2800 for three participants
Tour Chianti Classico, Montalcino and San Gimignano
(Self Guided tours)
We will make appointments for you at the best wineries in Chianti Classico, Montalcino, or San Gimignano to see some of the offerings. We will provide you with a map and you are ready to go. At the winery you will be welcomed by either the owner or cellar-master who will guide the cellar-tour and a tasting following thereafter. The one hour tour and tasting will be followed by small snacks. However, Attenzione! - not everywhere is English spoken fluently! We will supply you with a winery terms dictionary to help you to ask the important questions.
Touring the Wine Roads with Jens Schmidt
It is your call! Wherever you wish to go in Italy we will arrange for winery visits. You choose the region, we choose the winery. We will drive you in small vans across the beautiful Italian countryside according to the itinerary picked by you. Jens Schmidt will share information and sensations collected in wineries and vineyards over the past 20 years in Italy and lead you hands on through tastings of the local grapes in their best expression. You will meet the people behind some of Italy's most important cutting edge wineries from the Montecastelli Selections portfolio. You will have access to some of the older vintages at the wineries and enjoy vertical tastings not possible anywhere else. Meals and overnight accommodations are not included, but can be customized to your needs and budget.
Tastings in Montecastelli
Taste like a professional. In Montecastelli's professional tasting room sit down in a relaxing atmosphere surrounded by the beautiful Montagnola landscape and find the peace to focus on wine. From our extensive cellars you may pick from three different themes and choose one or all three themes for a 4 hour sit down course. Languages spoken are English, German, French and obviously Italian. Course includes lecture, wines, and small antipasti to accompany the wines.
1. Sangiovese in Depth:
Enough of the myth of Sangiovese Grosso! Learn how this sensitive variety reacts in its different expressions to changes of soil and microclimate. 12 Sangiovese wines from: Chianti Classico, Chianti Colli Senesi, Brunello, Morellino, Orcia, Monteregio, Val di Cornia, Versilia, Montepulciano.
2. Indigenous varieties of Italy:
5 white, 7 red indigenous varieties from north to south. Distinct beauty of wine that is different. Bored with Chardonnay and Merlot? Open your horizons to truly unique findings. Did you know that there are more than 1000 unclassified and 360 classified indigenous grapes grown in Italy? This course could go on forever. For now we will cut off at twelve, but could book you twice and still always show you something new!
3. How about the South?
Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria and Sicily - that is where things are happening in Italy today. You need to update your database on Aglianico - this is the course for you. These vines are growing closer to the sun, closer to Greek and Roman mythology. They have defied volcanic eruptions and today nurture their power from these same dramatic soils. Spicy and complex - discover a new dimension!
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