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Travel for tourism is freely permitted between regions in the yellow zone. The national certificate allows people to move freely even between territories in the red or orange band.

Who can do it

In order to do so, it is necessary to have a certificate of vaccination – with both doses and only with vaccines authorized by the EMA – or a certificate of recovery from Covid or a swab (molecular or antigenic) with negative results carried out in the previous 48 hours.

Welcome back to Italy

“If there is a country intertwined with tourism, which thrives on tourism, it is ours”, underlined the premier. “The time has come to book your holidays in Italy, and of course we can’t wait to welcome you again. The world wants to travel to Italy. The pandemic has forced us to close, but Italy is ready to welcome the world back,” said Draghi, then said the premier addressing foreign tourists.

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Piazza dell’Anfiteatro

It stands in the exact place where the ancient Roman amphitheater, dating back to the 2nd century AD, once stood. and of which the square still retains the traditional elliptical shape. During the Middle Ages, Piazza dell’Anfiteatro was the privileged meeting point of the Lucca society. Here, in fact, citizens’ meetings took place systematically. Today the square remains a very central meeting point, with many shops and bars created inside ancient premises. Piazza dell’Anfiteatro is accessed through four arches placed in different points.

Piazza Napoleone

Its origins date back to 1806, when, with the city invaded by Napoleonic troops, it was built at the behest of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, sister of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The square was dedicated to Napoleon and a statue erected in the center of it was dedicated. However, the monument that more than any other distinguishes Piazza Napoleone is the splendid Palazzo Ducale. Built in the 15th century, an enormous personal residence of Castruccio Castracani, an ancient lord of the city.

Piazza San Martino

The square opens in front of the asymmetrical facade of the thirteenth-century Cathedral of San Martino, which with its deep portico, the whiteness of the marbles and the inlays of the columns, create a unique scenographic effect. However, this square-churchyard is not proposed as a closed space, but as the introduction to a succession of other spaces that open on the sides and behind the apse of the church, so as to make it the fulcrum of an original, lively environment urban.

Piazza San Michele

Built at the end of the 11th century, the Church of San Michele stands in the center of the homonymous square, in the heart of the city of Lucca, and more precisely in the place where the ancient Roman Forum of the city once stood. Also for this reason the church is often identified with the name of San Michele in Foro. The architectural structure is typical of a Pisan Romanesque style church, with a Latin cross plan and an internal structure composed of three naves, on the external facade at the top is the statue of the Archangel Michael.

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The monuments of Pistoia

That of the Cathedral is the main square, around which the most important buildings overlook: the Town Hall, the Cathedral of San Zeno, the Palazzo dei Vescovi, the Baptistery and the bell tower. To understand where you are, we recommend climbing the 200 steps of the bell tower: from up there you can admire the whole city from above.

Piazza del Duomo

The cathedral is a beautiful architectural mix: built mainly in the Pisan Romanesque style, it also includes Renaissance, Baroque, sixteenth and nineteenth-century elements. The most valuable piece that can be admired inside is a silver altar from the ancient chapel dedicated to Santo Jacopo. patron of Pistoia. The Palazzo degli Anziani is the seat of the Town Hall, but it also houses the Civic Museum, the first museum in the city, and the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Corte is considered among the greatest expressions of Tuscan Gothic.

The museums of Pistoia

For those who are passionate about art, Pistoia will find something for their teeth. Not for nothing, in 2017 it was the Italian Capital of Culture. There are several museums of the Pistoia Musei Foundation that offer a rich program of initiatives including exhibitions, conferences, educational activities, workshops for adults and events, such as the “Art happy hour”. Among these are Palazzo Buontalenti, Palazzo de ‘Rossi and Palazzo dei Vescovi.

The “Tuscan Chocolate Valley”

And for the sweet tooth, Pistoia is located within what is called the “chocolate valley”, an area that includes the Tuscan territory between Pisa, Pistoia and Prato. This valley of chocolate has become famous in recent years for the development of numerous high-quality chocolate industries and for the establishment of some artisans capable of making excellent cocoa and chocolate-based products, which have become famous throughout the world.

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Castagnaccio, a VIP among Tuscan desserts

Castagnaccio is one of the best known traditional Tuscan sweets. It was once considered a real street food, and its origins are presumed to date back to the 16th century. A legend about the famous chestnut cake It is said that Castagnaccio is also the keeper of a legend. In fact, it is said that the rosemary needles present inside are actually a filter of love. Anyone who eats a slice of chestnut, offered by the hands of a girl, will fall in love with it instantly. You just have to try!

Ribollita or Zuppa di Cavolo

The best known Tuscan dish based on black cabbage is the satisfying and appreciated Ribollita. It is a Tuscan recipe, which perhaps represents the symbolic example of recycled cuisine of peasant origin, which is the basis of our regional culinary tradition. Just think that the ribollita, it is said, was a dish prepared on Friday, the day in which all the leftover vegetables of the week were cooked together, with stale bread (which we remember, it was at the time, baked once a week).

Porcini mushrooms

Mushroom lovers look forward to the arrival of autumn, to give free rein to their culinary creativity. In fact, these fruits of the undergrowth, in addition to giving the dishes an intense, particular and delicious taste, are a very versatile food rich in properties. The Tuscan recipes with mushrooms are so many and varied, although the undisputed protagonists are the porcini, the kings of the Tuscan woods. However, you will also be able to appreciate other types of mushrooms, often underestimated, but absolutely fragrant and tasty such as sloe and champignons. Also not to be overlooked are the ease and speed of preparing mushroom-based dishes. We can summarize that, with minimal effort, absolutely delicious dishes are created.

The cecìna or chickpea cake

You should know that it has been told since the dawn of time, of an eternal diatribe between two enchanting Tuscan cities: Pisa and Livorno. So geographically close to each other, they share the same sea and the same area. At the same time, deeply tied to their origins and traditions, so much so that they want to distinguish themselves from one another. The cecìna is such a source of pride for the city of Pisa, that it has requested the attribution of the DOP denomination. The origins of cecìna and chickpea cake go back to distant times, there are evidence of recipes already among the Greek and Latin population. As is well known in the Arab world, the use of chickpeas had been cleared for some time. It is assumed that during the Middle Ages, thanks to continuous contacts with the Maritime Republic of Pisa, the use of this legume was introduced in our territory.

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Tuscany is a region that has always been synonymous with excellent culinary traditions, first choice products and conviviality.
Are you planning a visit to the city of the leaning tower and want to know where to find the nicest and most interesting places to taste the local specialties? Pisa has in common with all the other cities of the region natural and artistic beauties, but it is also able to offer tasty and unmissable traditional dishes.

The food specialties

Typical Pisan specialties include some dishes shared with the rest of the Tuscan cities, in particular the appetizers made up of classic croutons, regional cured meats and cheeses: goodies to start what will surely be a meal with all the trimmings! We continue with the first courses: the pisano-style bordatino (a soup made with beans, black cabbage and yellow flour, typically winter), chickpea soup and the famous tomato soup, not forgetting spaghetti with clams and pappardelle with rabbit sauce. The second courses, on the other hand, include both meat (in particular game) and fish: eels on the knee (fried eels cooked in tomato stew), cod with leeks, stockfish with potatoes, pheasant, hare, fallow deer or wild boar and the classics little beans with bird.

The pisan wines

Usually when you talk about Tuscany, the most celebrated Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Bolgheri come to mind. Actually, on this tour I wanted to learn about the different facets of the territory and of Pisan wines. And they are many: from the Tyrrhenian coast of Riparbella to the upper Val Cecina, from the Pisan Hills to Terricciola, up to the Etruscan Volterra. Among vineyards in areas still untouched, at altitudes ranging from 250 to 400 meters above sea level. Here the water mass of the Tyrrhenian Sea mitigates excess heat allowing an optimal maturation of the grapes.

Extra virgin olive oil of Monti Pisani

It is known that olive oil is a fat containing triglycerides (98-99%), of considerable interest as they control important biochemical mechanisms, and other compounds of considerable importance for conservation purposes. Among these: Vitamin E, Sterols, Polyphenols, Chlorophyll.
Tuscan Monti Igp Olive Oil “Monti Pisani” is one of the best, is an oil obtained from olives of the varieties Frantoio, Leccino, Moraiolo, hand-picked and cold pressed. The freshly pressed oil is more or less intense green in function of the degree of maturity of the olives, has a spicy taste, with a certain degree of bitterness; over the months, it tends to yellow, while retaining a fruity smell and taste.

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The leather jacket of a sailor, the skeleton of a man embraced by a dog, a jar of salted anchovies, a wooden box full of coins and medicines.
There is a story spanning nine centuries, made up of businesses and sailors, of routes and shipwrecks, navigations and life on board, remained entangled in the mud, in a network of canals not far from Pisa, sealed by the alluvial deposits over time. A story that will resume at the end of February and will be completely revealed to the public with the opening of the exhibit area of the Pisa Ship Museum, in an area of 4700 square meters inside the Medici Arsenals, built in the second half of the sixteenth century for will of Cosimo I.

Beginning of the excavation

The history of what was dubbed the “Pompeii of the sea” began in 1998, the year in which the excavator traced the outskirts of the ancient walls of the city during work at the Pisa San Rossore railway station. something unexpected. At about three meters of depth emerged the wrecks of thirty Roman ships (11 of which are intact) dating back to a period of time between the 2nd century BC and the 7th century BC, still filled with tableware and kitchenware, wooden shoes, objects of worship that sailors brought with them on dangerous journeys.
The great excavation site inaugurated following the discovery ended in 2016, at the end of a laborious work of archaeologists and restorers who recomposed the original mosaic of a fascinating history.

The museum with more than 800 exhibits

The exhibition inside the Medici Arsenals, which will cover the Roman ships of Pisa, will be different from that of the other museums. The aspect of the story will prevail. In addition to places, activities that revolved around ships will be reconstructed, the daily life on board. It will be a multimedia story that will take advantage of modern technology systems. Visitors will not only see the individual objects, but will come to know the stories, for example that of the sailor and his dog, whose skeletons have been found embraced one another. The completion of the exhibition and the expected opening will allow a certain regularity of visits. Next to the halls that will characterize the entire exhibiting part relating to the ships, there will also be the City Museum, the museum that Pisa still did not have.

The archeological site

During the excavation, the wrecks were freed from the ground according to the method typical of the archaeological excavation, and by fiberglass panels. To ensure the necessary humidity, a spray system was set up on the exhibits, designed for each boat. A new fiberglass shell was superimposed on this to preserve the boat during lifting, transport and planting. The boat, thus encapsulated, was fixed to a metal frame and then lifted and moved to the laboratory for restoration. The archaeological excavation has made it possible to recover several wooden objects.

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Pisa, the city of Galileo Galilei and the “Leaning Tower”, is the ideal destination for a journey to discover the artistic and cultural wonders of our Peninsula. If you want to visit Pisa in one day, don’t rush things and concentrate on the most important attractions.
Pisa, despite its modest size, has played a central role in Italian history in different eras, particularly when, from Repubblica Marinara, along with Amalfi, Genoa and Venice dominated trade routes in the Mediterranean.
The charm of Pisa is undeniable: the city is pleasant to visit in all seasons of the year. If you want to see with your own eyes the Leaning Tower and other tourist attractions of the Tuscan city, plan your trip and set off for Pisa.

The Miracle Square

Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa includes, in addition to the Leaning Tower, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the Baptistery of San Giovanni and the Monumental Cemetery.
You will not happen many times in your life to be able to contemplate a square of such rare beauty, so don’t be in a hurry. Enjoy this moment of unique, intimate and delicate pleasure.
Walk among the monuments, sit on the ground and observe what opens before your eyes, look at the Baptistery, the Tower and the Cathedral from every possible perspective.
Why not, mixed with the crowd of tourists and take a picture in perspective too, in which “support” or “hold” the Tower of Pisa. It is a rite of passage, a modern tradition, a playful way of doing tourism, returning children and leaving behind (at least for a moment) problems and concerns.

The Leaning Tower

The first thing to do in Pisa is almost inevitable: to see and photograph the famous “Leaning Tower”.
The Tower of Pisa is the monument-symbol of the Tuscan city. Built between the 12th and 14th centuries, the Tower of Pisa is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, although it is separated from the main building.
The Tower of Pisa is “leaning” due to a slow but progressive collapse of the underlying land. How does the Tower of Pisa stand up despite everything? The explanation is simple: the vertical passing through the center of gravity of the structure falls inside the support base of the Tower. A real “miracle” of Pisa.

Piazza dei Cavalieri

Piazza dei Cavalieri, second in fame and beauty only to that of the Miracles, was the beating heart of communal life in ancient Pisa.
Here, in the Torre della Muda (later nicknamed “Torre della Fame”), Count Ugolino della Gherardesca was imprisoned and his jailers were given the order to throw the key to the cell in the Arno.
The legend (also narrated by Dante in the XXXIII song of Hell) wants that the count, condemned to die of starvation together with children and grandchildren, overwhelmed by hunger, fed on the flesh of his progeny.

Borgo Stretto and the other two “leaning towers” of Pisa

Borgo Stretto is one of the most suggestive districts of Pisa. Loved by both tourists and Pisans, Borgo Stretto is a must during a trip to Pisa.
After walking through the charming alleys of Borgo Stretto, before moving to the Arno river and continuing your itinerary in Pisa, take a short stop in Via Santa Maria, just 5 minutes away on foot. Via Santa Maria hides one of the other two “leaning towers” of Pisa, the bell tower of the Church of San Nicola, inclined at about 2.5 degrees.
If you also want to see the third “leaning tower” of Pisa, go to Via Michele degli Scalzi, where the Church of San Michele degli Scalzi is located, whose bell tower is inclined by 5 degrees.

The Lungarni

After Borgo Stretto continue towards Piazza Garibaldi and then towards the Ponte di Mezzo. At this point you have reached the Lungarni of Pisa, spectacular by day, but above all at sunset.
The most beautiful is the Lungarno Mediceo, bordered by the elegant residences of the Pisan Lords of the past, such as Palazzo dei Medici and Palazzo Toscanelli, but also by other pieces of the city’s history, such as the Church of San Matteo in Soarta, which today houses an interesting museum.
On the Lungarno Gambacorti, then, is the enchanting Church of Santa Maria della Spina, also worthy of a visit.

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A legend tells that the goddess Venus, at the time of emerging from the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, let go of seven pearls of the necklace that she wore around her neck which, falling into the sea, turned into the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago.

Capraia – The natural dolphinarium
Elba – The pearl among the pearls
Giannutri – The crescent of the goddesses
Giglio – The flower of the Tuscan archipelago
Gorgona – The smallest pearl
Montecristo – The island of the monastery
Pianosa – The island of ghosts

The islands are located in front of the Tuscan Maremma and not far from the coasts of Corsica: Elba is the largest followed by Giglio, Capraia, Montecristo, Pianosa, Giannutri and finally Gorgona, the smallest. Other smaller, dry and rocky islands are included in the archipelago.

The archipelago is bathed by four seas: the Ligurian Sea to the north of the island of Elba, the Piombino Canal to the east, the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south and the Corsica Channel to the west of the Elban coasts. The islands of Capraia, Pianosa, Gorgona, Montecristo and Elba belong to the province of Livorno (Maremma Livorno). The islands of Giannutri and Giglio are located in front of the Monte Argentario and belong to the province of Grosseto (Maremma Grosseto).

Capraia

The island forms an autonomous municipality in the province of Livorno with a population of around 300 inhabitants. There are two inhabited centers that overlook the largest island creek exposed to the east: the core of the port, a simple and graceful seaside hamlet, and the town, the oldest village near the fort of San Giorgio. Frequented by the most ancient navigators and home to a Roman residential settlement, Capraia was also the object of raids by Saracen and Turkish pirates. Modern history has instead seen the development of an agricultural penal colony, active from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1986, which occupied the northern portion of the island.

Elba

The island has a vaguely triangular shape, but extremely articulated due to the coastline characterized by numerous gulfs and promontories that break the insular perimeter. The territory is mostly mountainous and hilly: the granitic western massif consists of some peaks and culminates in Monte Capanne which reaches 1019 meters above sea level; in the central sector Monte Orello is found 385 m in the eastern one the greatest relief is that of Cima del Monte 516 m. There are few flat areas located mostly near the wider southern bays.
The beach of Lacona is one of the most beautiful on the island.
The Island of Elba is famous and much loved by travelers for its wild and unspoiled nature, for its crystal clear sea and for its beaches of all types and colors. Among the 10 most beautiful are the beach of Sansone, in Portoferraio, a small strip of white gravel that can be reached by a path that starts from the beach of Sorgente.

Pianosa

Of the III and IV centuries it is an important Christian catacomb, located near the small town. It was the Pisans who built a small inhabited nucleus that was destroyed in the 16th century during Turkish raids. After an attempt at agricultural colonization in the early nineteenth century, it was the site of an important agricultural penal colony, then a maximum security prison, which occupied the entire pianosina area. The island territory was therefore divided into two realities separated by a large reinforced concrete wall: the prison area, with branches and land cultivated by prisoners and the smallest portion of the town, a nucleus inhabited by prison staff and those who performed services for the community. After the decommissioning of the prison Pianosa remained almost uninhabited and only in 1999 was it opened for guided tours.

Montecristo

Montecristo is the fourth largest island in the Tuscan Archipelago with a surface area of 10.4 sq km and is the farthest from the continental coast which is about 63 km away. From the administrative point of view its territory is annexed to the municipality of Portoferraio and to the province of Livorno of which it represents the southernmost portion. Perhaps a place of worship dedicated to Jupiter in Roman times, it hosted San Mamiliano in the fifth century, fleeing the Vandals. Home to a flourishing monastic community until the 16th century and the subject of attempts at agricultural colonization in the 19th century, the island is today uninhabited and devoid of any service.

Gorgona

The main center of the island is a small village that crowns the marina. Going up towards the interior there are two ancient fortifications: the Torre Vecchia, Pisan, and the Torre Nova, Medici. Interesting is the Church of San Gorgonio, fortified, while Villa Margherita, built on Roman remains, today is the seat of the penitentiary. At the top of the island is the complex of the second half of the nineteenth century that originally housed the abandoned lighthouse in 1975. There is evidence of the presence of man on the island since the Neolithic. The island was inhabited in a discontinuous manner in the 12th-13th century and subjected to frequent barbarian incursions. Monks and small military garrisons resisted guarding the island until the seventeenth century. After a period of abandonment in 1869, the agricultural penal colony was established, still an active prison.

Giannutri

The southern of the Tuscan islands, emerges from the waters of the Tyrrhenian like a white crescent of limestone. Along the 11 kilometers of coastline rocky cliffs prevail where caves and cracks originate from the action of the wind. The only landing points on the island: Cala Spalmatoio and Cala Maestra have two small pebble beaches. All around splendid backdrops rich in biodiversity where dolphins and whales frequently swim. There is no spring water and the few dwellings present are located around the marina and dispersed in the scrub. However, the fascination of nature takes precedence over the visitor and hikers can enjoy enchanting sceneries along the different paths that extend along the offshoots towards Monte Mario and Poggio Capel Rosso.
The reception to the public is active only in the good season when some shops and refreshment points are open.

Giglio

The island of Giglio is included in the province of Grosseto and is common to Giannutri, with a population of about 1550 inhabitants distributed in the three small inhabited centers: Giglio Castello, the ancient medieval inhabited center of the Town Hall, maze of steep alleys enclosed by walls that culminate with the imposing Rocca Pisana; Giglio Porto, the island’s landing place, where the last vestiges of the Roman villa belonging to the Enobarbi family are buried under the houses built in the following centuries; the fraction of Campese that faces west on the largest beach of the island and that originates from the mining settlement for the extraction of pyrite exploited since prehistoric times and closed in 1964.

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Siena from Lucca by train

To go from Lucca to Siena by train there are various solutions and there are many trains leaving from Lucca train Station. The journey can last 3 hours, there is a change of train in Firenze Rifredi train station and the price is about 14 euro one way. Just go to the Lucca train station and buy a ticket to Siena, the station is only one and you can reach the center on foot with a walk of 15-20 minutes on foot. Of course it is not always pleasant to move from the station to the center on foot, considering that the city of Siena must be seen walking, but if you want to save this is the best solution. Always remember that Italian trains can be crowded especially during peak hours and it is not always easy to find a seat. With a little patience and time available you can get to Siena and return to Lucca in the day saving money, but not time and effort.

Siena from Lucca by Bus and Car

Siena can also be reached from Lucca by bus, with a stop in Florence, from the bus station of Piazzale Verdi in Lucca. The journey usually lasts 3h20 minutes, but the risk is that we are very busy especially to get out of Lucca.
 Both by train and by bus, once you arrive at Siena, you will have to organize yourself by local means to reach the monuments you want to see and organize for the return to take the bus or the train that you have booked in time!
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For those who do not want to do everything for themselves, there are organized trips, which not only allow you not to think about timetables and booking vehicles, but some can also take you directly to the places you want to visit making you save time and effort.
The most beautiful and undoubtedly most engaging way to see a city like Siena is with the small tour operators who take you to the minivan with up to 8 people.

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In both cases, Dolcevitatour will pick you up at the hotel and take you to Siena; in each tour there is a tour guide who will explain you during the trip and illustrate the surrounding beauty avoiding the busiest places that waste time and will bring you as close as possible to the monuments of greatest interest.
The tour leader will be with you to explain and tell you stories and anecdotes about the city.
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Tuscany in fact boasts many areas with production of IGT labels (about 40), DOCG (about 11) and about thirty DOC wines, full bodied and consistent red wines such as Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti, Rosso di Montalcino and many others .If you want to try a new tasting experience, savoring new aromas and flavors that will transport you to the hilly terrain of this region, follow the advice of our sommelier and avoid buying products that do not fully express these precious characteristics. These wines are in strong competition with those of Piedmont because they are considered 2 of the Italian regions with the best wine production.

1° Sassicaia Bolgheri Doc 2014 – San Guido

In the 1920s, a student in Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamed of creating a race wine.
His ideal, as for the aristocracy of the time, was Bordeaux.
No one had ever thought of making a “Bordeaux” wine in Maremma, an area unknown from a wine point of view.
The decision to plant this variety in the Tenuta San Guido was partly due to the similarity he had noticed between this area of Tuscany and Graves, in Bordeaux. Graves means gravel, due to the rocky terrain that distinguishes the area, just as Sassicaia, in Tuscany, calls an area with the same characteristics.
From 1948 to 1967, Sassicaia remained a strictly private domain, and was drunk only on the estate.
Every year, few cases were put to age in the cellar of Castiglioncello.
The Marquis soon realized that as he aged the wine improved considerably. As often happens with wines of great stature, those that were previously considered defects, over time became virtues.
Now friends and relatives incited Mario Incisa to deepen his experiments and perfect his revolutionary winemaking style for that area.
In the following years the cellar was moved to temperature-controlled premises, steel vats replaced wooden vats for fermentation, and French barriques were introduced for aging.

2° Brunello di Montalcino 2012 – Col D’Orcia

Tradition means respect for the essence of Sangiovese di Montalcino which lies in the potential of aging, in the improvement of wine through the long stay in the wood and the consequent aging in the bottle.
Even today, in Col d’Orcia, Brunello di Montalcino is aged for 3 full years in large oak barrels before bottling and is kept in the cellar 1 year before it goes on the market.

3° Costa Toscana Rosso Due Mani 2013 – Due Mani

Single variety of Cabernet Franc from a careful selection of the areas of the vineyard, large fruit, sweet tannins and complexity.
The result in the glass is superb: blackberry, rosemary, undergrowth and Mediterranean scrub.
Sumptuous balance and impressive length.

4° Chianti Castello di Brolio 2013 – Barone Ricasoli

The production of individual vintages can thus vary in quantity but the quality always remains the highest. The vineyards are located at an altitude between 250 and 450 meters above sea level with south/south-west exposure.
The high skeleton content, the perfect exposures and the optimal soil altitudes identify the typicality of this wine.

5° Rosso di Montalcino 2014 – Val di Suga

Exactly like Brunello di Montalcino also the Rosso is produced only using the sangiovese grosso, the most typical variety of the hills of Illycino. The result is a wine of great frankness and expressiveness, fragrant and immediate, which unlike its older brother is marketed about two years after harvest to preserve these natural characteristics. Poliedrico, is a wine that can adapt to all occasions and accompany innumerable traditional Tuscan dishes.

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