Chianti Classico: Organic Winery Tour & Wine Tasting

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Duration2h

GroupUp to 14

LanguagesEN · IT +1

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Vineyards, Cellar, and Five Wines in One Afternoon

You walk the vineyards and cellar of an organic Chianti estate between Radda and Panzano, then taste five wines paired with house olive oil, cheeses, and bread. The guide explains the organic farming and wine-making process as you go, and the group stays small enough that you can ask questions. Plan for an afternoon—the whole experience takes a few hours, and you leave knowing how this particular winery works.

Step-by-step itinerary

Organic winery tour and wine tasting

Visit vineyards and learn organic farming
Walk through the cellar
Taste five wines with snacks
Enjoy bread with olive oil and salami

The Experience

The cellar door opens and you're already moving through rows of oak barrels, the air thick with the smell of fermentation and old wood. Your guide is talking about the vintage in the tanks beside you—how long it's been aging, what the organic grapes brought to it—and you're walking deeper into the cool stone building before you've even had a chance to ask a question. This is the Chianti Classico winery tour: no standing around in a tasting room, no waiting for someone to pour. You start in the vineyard between Radda and Panzano, where the vines are planted on slopes that catch the afternoon light, and the guide explains how organic farming here means no synthetic pesticides, just the soil and the season doing the work. The walk takes you through the rows, then down into the cellar where the actual wine-making happens—the presses, the fermentation vessels, the whole operation laid out in front of you so you understand what you're about to taste.

After the tour, you sit down to five wines, one after another, each one paired with something small but real: bread soaked in their own extra virgin olive oil, local cheeses, cured salami. The guide pours and talks through each wine—what you're tasting, why it tastes that way, how the vineyard and the cellar work together to make it. It's not a rush. You get time to ask, to taste again, to notice the difference between one vintage and the next. The snacks aren't an afterthought; they're part of how the wine tastes, how it sits in your mouth, how the flavors change when you eat something alongside it. By the end you've tasted most of what the estate makes, and you've got a real sense of how they work—the organic side, the wine-making side, the whole thing.

The estate is small enough that you're not one of forty people. Groups stay manageable, which means the guide can actually talk to you, answer what you're wondering about, not just recite a script. If you're in a wheelchair or traveling with young children, the place is set up for that—accessible paths through the vineyard, accessible cellar, accessible tasting room. Service animals are welcome. The minimum age for tasting is 21, which is standard, but there's no rule against bringing kids along for the tour part if you want them to see how wine gets made.

What’s included

Guided tour of the vineyards with explanation of organic farming methods, walk through the cellar and wine-making process, tasting of five wines, bread with house-made extra virgin olive oil, local cheeses, cured salami, and beverages throughout.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcome

Operated by Fattoria di Montemaggio S.r.l

Is this one for you?Right for wine drinkers who want to understand how organic Chianti is actually made, not just taste it. The tour is paced for learning, with time to walk the vineyard and ask about each wine—expect a few hours on your feet, but that's what lets you see the whole operation.