Toskana Weinreise: Montepulciano, Pienza & Montalcino mit Mittagessen

I would call this day more of a visit to three towns rather than a wine tour. Two tastings with lunch and two small tastes of the Brunello in the afternoon. The bus was late and the guide was even later. She was lovely but wasn’t as informative or fluent in English as I would have hoped. The towns we visited were worth it and the scenery is stunning!

A good tour overall as it allows you to visit several areas in a single day. The advertisement was for a small tour but it was in fact on a small bus / coach so larger than we expected. The guide did a good job keeping the group together and speaking multiple languages. It was a very hot day and the air conditioning in the coach was not working properly making for a very uncomfortable time while on the coach. The stops for lunch and at the wineries for tastings were nice local places with the final winer in operation for 27 generations.

The bus/tour guide were an hour late and told us we couldn’t make up the time for them being late so we had an hour less of our tour (no compensation provided, barley even an apology). Each stop we had our free time split between before/after the activity in each city making our free time feel very rushed. We barely had any wine/wine tastings and had to supplement on our own during free time (at our own cost) to get a decent amount of wine. All of the wine included in the tour amounted to maybe one glass total between all of the tastings. We were supposed to have pici pasta with ragu at the first stop - the pasta was not pici and it was only tomato sauce, not ragu. This tour unfortunately felt like a big waste of money. I would recommend finding a different tour for better value for your money.

Atividade 20 de Abril Para começar o autocarro chegou quase 1h após a hora prevista. O trajecto não seguiu como estava descrito começamos o passeio em Montalpucino onde tinha uma vista para o Vale d orcia, depois fomos almoçar, seguimos Pienza. Depois pensávamos que iamos fazer uma paragem com uma vista diferente, panorâmica e entre os vales e fomos levados para uma estrada sem qualquer beleza para aquilo que estava descrito no programa. Para além disso foi totalmente à pressa porque estavam com o tempo contado. Depois fomos fazer a última de vinhos chegámos lá e também foi logo dito que 17:30 tínhamos de partir chegamos já passava das 16h Tudo feito totalmente à pressa , para valor pago e aquilo que está descrito na atividade. Viemos desiludidas e não vamos recomendar esta atividade com toda a certeza. O passeio foi feito por motorista Alexx e Guia Alexandra