We are now in Siena waiting for the Palio (horse racing festival to start). We checked out the Tuscany countryside in the Chianti region today by hiring a scooter. We zoomed around all day stopping at cool little towns, castles, and wineries where we tasted the local wine and did a wine tour.
Hooning around the countryside on our scooter
We stop for some wine tasting at near Castellina in Chianti for some wine tasting where they apparently had the best sauvignon blanc in the world
Karen getting into some wines
Views of the vineyards in the Chianti region
We stop for the biggest pizza I have ever seen in Radda in Chianti
Karen and her pizza
We visited this old monastry at Badia a Coltibuono where we did a tour. This was the big barrels of wine in the crypt which has a constant temperature year round due to the fungi growing on the walls.
They has a stockpile of really old wine - some dating back to 1937
They had hundreds of old bottles of wine in the cellar
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