Wine tours from Florence: discovering the best tuscan wineries

Tuscany Wine Tours with Angie specializes in small personal wine tours in Tuscany. A tour with professional guides with extensive knowledge to learn about the history of the Chianti  wine region, how grapes grow, and to have fun visiting small, family-run, independent vineyards and meeting passionate winemakers. The Chianti region is the epitome of the perfect wine country, boasting some of the Bel Paese’s most famous appellations. For instance, Chianti Classico, Brunello wine, Nobile di Montepulciano wine, Vernaccia di San Gimignano. Florence wine tours: discovering the best boutique wineries

Our offer

We operate a daily wine tour departing from Florence city centre. Our Florence wine tours run from 9am to 5:30pm with 3 or 4 stops, depending on the tour you choose. At the pick-up/drop-off place you will meet other participants. Our guide who will take you for a day touring of boutique wineries will be there too. We make sure groups are small so your experience is unique. We want to ensure that you are very well looked after and taken care of. You will travel in a luxury minibus with air-conditioning and free Wi-Fi on board through a landscape of historic vineyards, rolling hills and beautiful Tuscan villages.

Our guides are wine professional sommeliers and passionate about the Chianti wines. They love teaching guests about wine appreciation. Moreover they are extremely knowledgeable and will be available to answer questions, provide hints and other support throughout the way to the wineries. Together with a lot of stories and advice.

What to expect at the wineries

At the wineries you are sure to try a great selection of local wines while sampling food, cold meats and other delicious treats paired with each glass of wine. For two of our tours, i.e. Chianti Wine, Cheese, Chocolate, Prosecco and truffle tasting and Chianti and Super Tuscan wine tour from Florence, 3 wineries, lunch is included at one of the wineries. You will enjoy beautiful food with a breath-taking view over the vineyard.

Lunch at the wineries features ingredient-driven Tuscan wine country cuisine using sustainably and organically grown local ingredients. The cheese is locally sourced and most of the ingredients are based on fresh local produce, mainly grown on the site. The wineries’ locally inspired menus are perfectly paired with our Chianti wines for a true wine gourmet experience. Lunch usually consists of a three-dish meal. We will also make sure we accommodate for gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, and other dietary restrictions.

Our other tours

Our other tour – Chianti and Super Tuscan wine tour, 4 wineries visits – does not include lunch but at every and each winery you will enjoy plenty of local antipasti that is starters, finger food and other plenty of appetizing options (cold meat, cheese, bruschetta bread and so on) that we can assure you won’t leave hungry!

The Chianti Wine, Cheese, Chocolate, Prosecco and truffle tasting wine tour will also include tastings of chocolate as well as sparkling wine and homemade limoncello. The final stop will be at a Tuscan family-run chocolate and cookies small shop, a long-established manufacturer since 1950. You will be sure to try so many different treats and goodies. Filippo, the handmade cookie factory owner, is funny and will make sure you sample the freshest and most tasty local delicacies. For example you will taste cantuccini (crunchy almond biscuits that originated in Tuscany). In addition, a variety of cheese, small bruschetta bread with truffles. For the sweet tooth assorted chocolates all paired with white and red Tuscan sparkling wines, Tuscan limoncello and more delicacies.

Here at Tuscany Tour Time we are sure to offer you fun and entertaining Florence wine tours. Touring the vineyards of the Chianti area while enjoying wine tastings at a great selection of boutique wineries. All with lunch options and visits to the local cheese and chocolate shops. This is a great way to experience the Florence wine region. Our Florence wine tours offer quality, intimate, day tours to some of the best selected Tuscan vineyards where you will be able to learn about regional wines at cellar door and the secret art of wine making and blending.