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Italy · Siena
Wine Tasting in Siena: Best Tours, Enoteche and Classes
Siena works as a wine base for two very different days: an unhurried hour over three glasses in a city enoteca, or a full day out among Chianti Classico or Montalcino estates. Here is how the districts lie, which cellars receive visitors, what bookings look like and how to get there without driving.
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Italy · Verona
Wine Tasting in Verona: Valpolicella, Amarone & How to Book
Verona puts Amarone country, Soave and Lake Garda within a short drive of one compact historic center. This guide covers wineries that actually take visitors, what a tour and tasting includes, published timings, and how to reach the vineyards without driving yourself.
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Italy · Montepulciano
Wine Tasting in Montepulciano: Nobile Cellars Guide
Montepulciano packs its historic cellars inside a walled hill town, so a serious Vino Nobile tasting day needs no car at all. This guide sorts the eight historic cantinas by booking model, explains Rosso versus Vino Nobile versus Riserva, and flags the estates outside the walls that do need transport.
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Italy · Turin
Wine Tasting in Turin: Piedmont Cellars, Day Trips & Tours
Turin puts three very different wine days within reach: short enoteca flights in the city center, appointment-based cellar visits in Canavese and Pinerolese, and full-day private tours into the Langhe for Barolo and Barbaresco. Here is how each works and how to choose.
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France · Reims
Wine Tasting in Reims: Champagne Houses, Tours and Prices
Reims packs its best-known Champagne houses into the city itself, with chalk cellars under the streets and vineyards a short drive out. Here is how the house circuit works, what guided day tours include and cost, and when the train to Aÿ or Épernay beats a bus full of tasters.
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France · Beaune
Wine Tasting in Beaune: Cellars, Châteaux and How to Book
Beaune packs nearly 70 public cellars into a walled old town half a kilometre across, so you can taste at Champy, Patriarche, Drouhin and Bouchard on foot in a single afternoon. This guide gives walk times from Place Carnot, published tasting formats and prices, which houses need a booked visit, and how to reach the Côte de Beaune vineyards without driving.
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Croatia1 guide
France9 guides
- Wine Tasting in Aix-en-Provence: Which Wineries to Choose
- Wine Tasting in Avignon: Châteauneuf-du-Pape & Tavel Guide
- Wine Tasting in Beaune: Cellars, Châteaux and How to Book
- Wine Tasting in Cannes: Provence Estates and Tours
- Wine Tasting in Colmar: Alsace Villages & Wineries Guide
- Wine Tasting in Dijon: Cellars, Estates and Day Trips
- Wine Tasting in Lyon: Beaujolais & Northern Rhône Day Trips
- Wine Tasting in Marseille: Compare Cassis & Bandol Tours
- Wine Tasting in Reims: Champagne Houses, Tours and Prices
Greece2 guides
Italy12 guides
- Wine Tasting in Amalfi: Coast Vineyards and How to Visit
- Wine Tasting in Bologna: Colli Bolognesi Guide
- Wine Tasting in Catania: Etna DOC Wineries and Tours
- Wine Tasting in Lucca: Which Winery and Tour to Choose
- Wine Tasting in Montepulciano: Nobile Cellars Guide
- Wine Tasting in Orvieto: Wineries, Bookings & What to Expect
- Wine Tasting in San Gimignano: Vernaccia, Wineries and Tours
- Wine Tasting in Siena: Best Tours, Enoteche and Classes
- Wine Tasting in Sorrento: Cellars & Vesuvius Wines
- Wine Tasting in Taormina: Etna Wineries and Tours to Book
- Wine Tasting in Turin: Piedmont Cellars, Day Trips & Tours
- Wine Tasting in Verona: Valpolicella, Amarone & How to Book
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GUIDE / Oct 18, 2026
Corte Sant'Alda Verona: How to Plan Your Winery Visit
Corte Sant'Alda sits in the Mezzane Valley east of Verona, a biodynamic estate whose wines run the Valpolicella ladder from fresh Ca' Fiui to Ripasso and Amarone. Here is how the valley is laid out, what the wines are, and how to plan a visit from Verona by car, bus or tour.
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GUIDE / Oct 18, 2026
Elvio Cogno Novello: Plan a Barolo Tasting from Turin
Elvio Cogno farms about fifteen hectares on the Bricco Ravera hill above Novello, not in Barolo village itself. This guide covers the wines the estate is known for, what to ask before requesting a visit, and how to reach the Langhe from Turin by train, bus or organised tour.
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GUIDE / Oct 17, 2026
Art Space Santorini: Winery, Gallery Visit & Tasting Guide
Art Space Santorini in Exo Gonia is a working winery, gallery and informal museum in one old complex. Here is what the visit involves, the wines poured, how a tasting is reported to work, and how to route it with Pyrgos and Kamari without a car.
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