From Rome: Montepulciano & Pienza Day Trip with Vineyard Lunch

We had a wonderful time in Montepulciano with a great guide. The bus ride was fine with beautiful scenery. The lunch and wine tasting was not very good. I have experience better wineries. The owner was very hard to understand and the wine tasted like cheap wine. I love wine and was very disappointed in this part of the tour. Otherwise, the rest of the tour was great.

We checked out some reviews beforehand which were a bit misleading as it turned out. We throughly enjoyed the trip, our guide Chiara was very friendly, informative and knowledgeable about history, gave clear instructions. We visited two wonderful Towns in Tuscany called Montefollonico and Pienza and had a wine tasting lunch at Fattoria Pulcino wine estate. The 12 hour tour by coach is highly recommended and great value for money. 5 stars

Toskana’ya kadar gidip üzüm bağlarım içinde gezmemek çok üzücü verdiğin paranın karşılığını aldığımı düşünmüyorum bir de şarap tadımı da yemeğin yanında yapıldı meşrubat gibi şarap tadımı yapıyorsun hissinden çok uzak bir şekilde…gezilen yerler çok güzel olduğu için bu 2 konuya çok takılmasam da yeniden yapar mıyım yapmam. romadan da çok uzak değil araba kiralar giderim

The trip to the vineyard was a tourist trap and the food was spaghetti and sauce and various so called bruschetta. We felt like cattle packed into a school cafeteria with one of the sister hostesses hushing the guests and ringing a bell before she spoke. The waiters had no idea what wine they were serving other than “white” or “red”. It was a disappointing experience and rather insulting.

The guides were great and very knowledgeable. My issues are with the food and pace. The tour starts at 7:30, very early for a lot of us. We don’t have time to have breakfast, maybe a coffee and pastry if we’re lucky. We did stop at a rest stop that had coffee and things to buy but we didn’t have lunch until about 1:30. Everybody was already hungry. I regretted not eating something at Montelpulciano before. Now the food.. was very bad. Not even average. They gave bread drenched in olive oil. I think they wanted people to get full off the amount of olive oil because of how many calories it has. They gave some kind of bruschetta that was cold, one kind of cheese, and some salami. 3 kinds of wine that weren’t good. And the main dish was a bad plate of pasta. The people that owned the winery felt very performative. Played the Italian grandma role to make it feel more authentic but it had the opposite effect. I did enjoy the town before. But the food was not with the money.