Ah, one of my favorite destinations in Tuscany…Montepulciano. It has my absolute favorite wine, Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano…and one of my favorite movies was filmed here. I was thrilled to finally be there. And when we arrived, the clock tower struck 12, just like in the movie. See…here’s a picture of it!

Told ya so!!

I loved this town…we walked around for what felt like hours!! Just visiting all of the shops and tasting wine. We had a few olive oil tastings too, which we bought since it was delicious! We didn’t buy any wines from where we tasted them from because there were so many stores offering a taste of their wine…so we wanted to try them all! But we ended up buying a bottle that was one of the first wines we tasted all day. You can actually find it at Binny’s if you’re interested in trying my favorite wine. It’s DEI Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano…it’s soooo tasty too! Not too sweet, not too dry, just the right balance of the two.

Then we headed to Montalcino…which is the region that makes my second favorite wine. Brunello de Montalcino…so delicious!! We did our own wine tasting here at one of the enotecas (loosely translated means wine store). What you do is get a card from the register and they have these machines that are full of wine. You put your card in and hit a button of the wine you want to taste and BAM! You have your taste. They had crackers around the shop to cleanse your palate. We also had our evening cappuccino at Cafe Fiaschetteria Italiara with one of the oldest espresso machines. I’m not sure if I mentioned this in my earlier posts, but I was officially addicted to espresso at this point of our trip! I was going on three to four shots a day! And by some miracle, I slept like a baby after having all of that caffeine!! But I will say that I haven’t found a cappuccino or shot of espresso that is as delicious as what I had in Italy.

After browsing through all of the stores, we headed back to Sienna for dinner, then headed to our home away from home. Next up, back to Roma!!!

Here are some of our pics of Montalcino and Montepulciano…

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