Montalcino: Brunello Wine Tasting & Tuscan Lunch Tour

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Duration5h

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Three Wineries, Two Tastings, One Lunch That Stays With You

You get picked up from your hotel, driven through Montalcino's vineyards to three different estates, guided through cellars and vines, taste Brunello in two separate tastings, and sit down to a four-course Tuscan lunch with wine pairings—all in five hours, with the driver handling the route and the timing so you don't have to.

Step-by-step itinerary

Wine tour and tasting in Montalcino

Meet at Artemisia Viaggi office
Transfer by Mercedes minivan
Visit three winery estates
Taste wines in two cellars
Enjoy four-course homemade lunch
Taste Rosso, Brunello, Vin Santo
Return to hotel or meeting point

The Experience

"You cannot rush Brunello," Marco said as we pulled into the first estate, the Mercedes climbing past rows of vines that seemed to go on forever. He wasn't being poetic—he was explaining why the wine spends five years in oak before it even leaves the cellar. That kind of patience shapes everything about a day in Montalcino. The tour starts at 10am from the ARTEMISIA VIAGGI office on Via Circonvallazione, or your hotel if it's within five kilometers of the town center, and for the next five hours you're moving between three different wineries, each one showing you something different about how Brunello gets made and why it matters.

The first stop is the vines themselves—rolling hills that look exactly like the postcards, except you're actually standing in them, and your guide is pointing out why this particular slope faces south, why the soil here is different from the next valley over. Then you're in the cellars, where the air is cool and smells like wood and fermentation, and someone's explaining the difference between a barrel and a barrel, which sounds silly until you taste it. Two separate tastings happen in two different estates, and they're not rushed—you're learning what you're tasting, not just swallowing and moving on. The minivan is air-conditioned, which matters because Tuscany in summer gets hot, and the driver handles all the navigation so you can actually look out the window instead of checking a map.

Lunch happens somewhere in the middle of the day, and it's four courses of the kind of food that doesn't photograph well but tastes like someone's grandmother spent the morning cooking. Homemade pasta, local meat, vegetables that taste like they were picked that morning—probably because they were. Wine comes with it: a tutored tasting of Rosso, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vin Santo, which means someone's explaining what you're drinking instead of you just guessing. Vegetarian options are available if you mention it when you book. By the time you're back at your hotel or the office, you've seen how Brunello gets made, tasted it in two different cellars, eaten lunch with wine, and spent five hours in a minivan with a multilingual driver who actually knows the region.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off (if within five kilometers of Montalcino).
round-trip transfer by air-conditioned Mercedes minivan.
multilingual driver and tour leader.
guided visits to three wineries and their cellars.
wine tastings at two estates.
four-course homemade Tuscan lunch.
tutored tastings of Rosso, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vin Santo during lunch.
all beverages.

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Easy physical level

Operated by ARTEMISIA VIAGGI SRL

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to understand Brunello without arranging transport, cellar access, or timing between estates—the five-hour structure and fixed schedule handle all three, leaving you free to actually taste and listen.