Wine Tasting Day in Greve in Chianti

February 15^th

I Just noticed that I haven’t written in one month, maybe a little less.  Life has been hectic lately.  I just got back from a week in Paris with school, and the weekend before we went to Venice, and the weekend before that we went on a wine tasting to Greve in Chianti.

I guess I will start by telling you about our tour of Greve in Chianti.  We woke up around 6am Saturday morning only to find out it was pouring.  We bundled up and walked to the train station anyways.  We boarded the bus around 8am and arrived to our location around 9/930 am. We got off the bus thinking “where in the hell are we?”  Where were we really though? Greve in Chianti:  A quaint town averaging a total of one street, about ¾ mile long.  We walked around, walked to the top of the hill of Greve where we could see miles and miles of vineyards and olive trees.  It was absolutely gorgeous.  After wondering around here for a bit,, we made our way to the market in the center near the famous singing butcher, who literally sings while butchering up his baby lamb chops or Charlotte. 

After walking around the market, I bought socks because by that time, my feet were soaked through my leather boots and cold as hell.  The socks are about an inch thick and made of heavy gauged sheep’s wool…don’t ask, they were sooo warm. 

We hopped back on the bus and made our way up to Pasano for our wine tasting.  We got a tour of the family villa we were visiting and got free lemons and oranges from the families gardens.  Lunch was amazing.  We were served three different reds, two Chianti’s and one ‘better than Chianti’.  I landed upon buying a bottle of ‘better than Chianti’ and a bottle of olive oil, which was also made at the family Villa as well. 

For food, we were served crostini’s with olive oil and cheese.  Then, pasta with homemade tomato sauce, then pasta with homemade pesto sauce, the biscotti with Prosecco….and then? Grappa.  May as well just drink gas from the car, it was that bad.  And to think I drank two shots of it just to make me warmer? Little did I know that it was 55% alcohol! Haha, a fun walk back down the hill that was!

After walking around the property for a bit, we thanked the chef and were off back to Florence.  A good day indeed filled with lots of hiking up and down large hills, lots of wine and a good day’s worth of roommate company.