Montalcino Wine Tour: Brunello Tasting & Tuscan Lunch

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Four Wineries, One Day: Inside Montalcino's Brunello Country

You spend nine hours moving between four Montalcino wineries, tasting Brunello di Montalcino at each one with a guide who explains what you're drinking. Lunch is a four-course meal at a historic villa with wine pairings, followed by a cellar visit. Transport, snacks, and all entry fees are included, and you return to Montalcino by 7pm.

Step-by-step itinerary

Montalcino wine tour and tastings

Depart from Montalcino at 10:00am
Arrive at Martoccia at 10:10am
Visit Piombaia biodynamic estate at 11:45am
Lunch in historical villa at 1:00pm
Guided cellar visit after lunch
Visit Conti Costanti historical cellar at 3:15pm
Reach San Carlo estate at 3:45pm
Return to Montalcino at 7:00pm

The Experience

You're standing in Montalcino at 10am, the Tuscan light already warm on the stone. The van pulls up on Via Circonvallazione, and within minutes you're moving through the Val d'Orcia — the landscape rolling in waves of vineyard and cypress, the kind of view that makes you understand why people come back to this corner of Tuscany year after year. The Montalcino wine tour runs for nine hours, and it's structured around four separate estates, each one a chance to taste Brunello di Montalcino in the place where it's made.

First stop is Martoccia, just ten minutes out. Then Piombaia, a biodynamic estate where you arrive around 11:45am and the cellar visit happens after lunch. That lunch — a four-course meal at a historical villa on the Piombaia grounds — sits at the center of the day. You're eating Tuscan food, drinking Rosso and Brunello poured by people who know the vineyard, and the meal takes the time it needs. After you finish, a guide walks you through the cellar itself, showing you how the wine moves from barrel to bottle. The pace is deliberate. You're not rushing between tasting rooms; you're sitting down.

By 3:15pm you're heading toward San Carlo, and then to Conti Costanti, one of the oldest cellars in the Montalcino area. Each stop includes a tutored tasting — someone who makes or sells the wine walks you through what you're drinking, and the differences between the Rosso (younger, brighter) and the Brunello (aged, structured) become clear once you taste them side by side across four different producers. Snacks come throughout the day. The van is air-conditioned. At 7pm you're back in Montalcino where you started.

The tour assumes you want to understand the wine and the place, not just collect tasting room photos. You meet producers who run family estates, not corporate tasting halls. The four-course lunch isn't a quick sandwich — it's the meal that anchors the day and gives you time to absorb what you've tasted before moving to the next cellar. If you're traveling with small children, they can come; strollers work on the villa grounds. If you use public transport to reach Montalcino, the pickup is straightforward — the van collects you from the same spot it drops you at the end.

What’s included

Hotel or central pickup in Montalcino at 10am.
air-conditioned vehicle transport between four estates.
tutored wine tastings of Rosso and Brunello di Montalcino at each winery.
four-course lunch with wine pairings at a historic villa.
guided cellar visit at Piombaia.
snacks throughout the day.
all entry fees and taxes.
return to Montalcino by 7pm.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by ARTEMISIA VIAGGI SRL

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste Brunello di Montalcino at multiple producers without arranging transport, timing, or cellar access yourself — the fixed itinerary and included lunch mean you spend the day learning about the wine instead of organizing logistics.