Private Tuscany Wine Tour Experience from Florence

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  • Duration:8 hours (approx.)
  • Location: Florence, Tuscany
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ALL INCLUDED PRIVATE WINE TOUR to 3 selected wineries of Tuscany mainly around the prestigious Chianti Classico area.
Wineries are selected by a LEVEL 3 sommelier aiming to let you enjoy high quality wines in a non-commercial setting. Each winery has a unique character in its location, views, undergrounds.
Usually your hosts are the winery’s owners sharing their lives and winemaking skills.
Wine pours are generous and they usually include Supertuscan wines.
Tastings include extra virgin olive oil, and if locally made also balsamic.
Lunch is based on food & wine pairing session at one winery.
You’ll be escorted by a professional and yet friendly driver-guide, specialized in wine-making (ranging from Level 1 to Level 3 Sommelier), English speaking and knowledgeable about the history of the area.
All vehicles are prestigious minivans with all comforts.
No food and alcoholic drinks are allowed in the vehicles during the drive.
We highly recommend to have breakfast before the tour!


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Posted By : rrznk
Private wine tour with the BEST tour guide, Max. My husband & I were picked up at our hotel in Florence. Max was a lot of fun and very informative. We visited three wineries and were provided snacks at two and had lunch at one. Beautiful drive to each winery! Great wines and we even purchased a case to have shipped back to the US
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Posted On : 2023-11-07 20:16:26 full ratings


Posted By : Jane_S
Excellent hosts at each winery. Especially Alessandro at Casa Sola.

Fabulous lunch at Querceto Di Castellina.

Great wines all around.

Our Driver, Max, was prompt, courteous, cheerful— and provided interesting historical and geographical details as we drove through the scenic countryside.
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Posted On : 2023-11-02 12:42:04 full ratings


Posted By : Alexandria_A
Anna was the best guide we could of asked for! She was so knowledgeable about the area and all the wines. She was a incredible guide and so friendly! Highly highly recommend and will be using her and her company when we come back.
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Posted On : 2023-07-29 04:42:55 full ratings


Posted By : V4771TQannar
Anna collected us from our villa which was a little out of the way, and dropped us back in the evening which was a huge plus for us (a group of 7 friends, who all wanted to enjoy the wine!). She is friendly and very knowledgeable about wine and all things Italy! She is a good driver, her van is super comfortable and has great air conditioning. She selected 3 small wineries for us to visit in Chianti - really well chosen, non touristy and very authentic, with great views of the Tuscan scenery. There was a good balance of touring the wineries and wine tastings - we learnt a lot. The tastings were delicious and generous! Mainly reds, but we also tasted one rose and one sparkling rose, as well as a desert wine. One non red wine drinker was converted on this tour! We were also given lots of olive oil and aged balsamic tastings. The lunch is seriously delicious, they do a gluten free menu and the food passed the test of our Italian 'foodie'. We were picked up at 9am and got home around 7pm. All in all a great day - thanks Anna!
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Posted On : 2023-07-17 16:34:37 full ratings


Posted By : Lauren_W
Anna was incredible, from the moment I booked the trip she was so quick to respond to questions (and worries!), and when she picked us up I instantly felt at ease (after a so-far stressful trip!). Anna was a turning point in my vacation and I am so grateful to her (and her amazing selection of wineries!!). This was such a special trip, and Anna is just amazing at what she does. I can’t imagine a winery tour that would have been better.
THANK YOU ANNA ❤️
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Posted On : 2023-07-09 05:06:33 full ratings


Posted By : W9135KHjessicam
Amazing trip to 3 different wineries! Everything was so well organized and arranged for us, so we didn't have to worry about a thing. This was a real highlight of our vacation!
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Posted On : 2023-07-06 09:53:38 full ratings


Posted By : Brett_L
This was absolutely the best part of our entire trip to Italy. First off, Anna was our tour guide and I can’t stress enough how great she was. She really made the trip the best. Then the selection of vineyards is great. We experienced a very small family run vineyard where we had lunch and were very welcomed. Before that was a small-medium sized vineyard where the owner walked us around. And lastly was a slightly larger vineyard, which was very nice and a great way to finish.
Everything about this trip was exactly what we were hoping for. The views driving between are also breathtaking. Anna knows the more scenic routes to take. Highly highly recommend this tour to anyone.
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Posted On : 2023-06-25 03:14:32 full ratings


Posted By : Doug_S
We booked this tour several weeks before our visit to Tuscany as it seemed like a great fit for our group of 6 including 2 children and others who have expertise with wine looking for a fine wine experience. So the fact that this was advertised as "Flexibility to customize your itinerary to your own preferences" it seemed like we could help shape the itinerary.

However upon contacting the operator, Anna, we were told that it would be planned for us by a sommelier but we could not provide input. With further inquiry we were told these would be high quality wines that were non-commercial (which was explained as not distributing their wine outside of direct to consumer).

The day of the trip we were picked up by a friendly driver named Paola right on time outside our apartment. We then drove about an hour to reach a very small, quaint family owned winery in Chianti. This was a wonderful experience as the host/owner walked us through 4 wines in a rustic and charming setting.

The sights along the drive were outstanding and Paola provided nice details about the Chianti region. During the drive we asked if we would be traveling outside of Chianti to other parts of Tuscany. We did understand that wine meccas like Montepulciano and Montalcino would be a far travel but possibly we'd work our way back from there. Particularly places like San Gimiginano which specialized in whites (one member of our group can only drink white wines) so would have been nice for her. At this point Paola indicated that we had booked a Chianti wine tour, which surprised us. We showed her the printed page from our booking that said Tuscany vs Chianti and she indicated she had perhaps misunderstood. She explained that she was subcontracted theough Ana and basically took it on when bookings were heavy. This does appear to explain the origin of some of the communication issues.

We had lunch at a small restaurant/winery called Sant'Agnese. This one was in a gorgeous setting and food was good, but the host was very focused on marketing their brand and didn't provide much information about the wine or wine making (we even had to ask the vintage!). Nice place, but too heavily commercial.

One of the highlights of the tour was a quick visit to a small hill town called San Donato. What a gem!

The final winery, Montecchio, was much larger and the staff person there was very knowledgeable and provided a brief cellar tour followed by a tasting of 4 wines.

All in all, we had a nice day filled with beautiful sights in the Chianti region and a reliable drive. We also got to have a nice lunch and several tastings. That said, we didn't feel we got precisely what we had booked given we stayed only in the one region (Chianti) and didn't have the ability to provide any input on our day.

If you just want a fun day in Chainti with gorgeous sights and some wine, this is a great tour for you! If you want to do a serious wine tasting of world class wines (which is what we hoped for) it will be a bit disappointing. I only wish we had an opportunity to provide some input on the sort of tour we wanted as I think this could have been a perfect day.
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Posted On : 2023-06-13 13:08:03 full ratings


Posted By : Bailey_S
Tour guide was very nice. Our second winery stop was amazing. The timing seemed off all day. We were picked up at 9:00 the first winery was not ready for us. Then we were two hours too early for our lunch stop. Our guide told us she would show us a small town. Not a lot of direction. Got to see some cute shops. She called to warn the lunch winery we were early and then once we got there we were still too early. Third winery was fine. They definitely didn’t seem ready for us either. The whole thing was a bit awkward and uncomfortable and I think if they would have just started it later than 9 and ended it sooner than 5 it would have been a lot better. We were back to Florence way before 5. There was just a time management issue. If guide could have communicated a bit better more regularly. So that we weren’t left wondering what to do. Maybe even give guests a bit of space to explore on there own. Tour guide was very informative. A great driver. And car was clean. But she was sick with a cold so a mask or maybe a different driver would have been a better choice that day.
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Posted On : 2023-05-14 04:37:35 full ratings


Posted By : Tina_W
We had a fantastic tour with Anna! With her Sommelier expertise she took us to 3 different wineries in the Chianti region. All 3 offered something different which led to a fantastic day through the countryside. Anna was full of knowledge and energy and made this a really fun day for the whole family. If you want something more specific, I’m sure she could accommodate. Thank you Anna for a well rounded tour! We will remember you when we drink the wines we shipped back to the USA. ❤️
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Posted On : 2023-03-31 16:38:28 full ratings