B & B La Fonte Di Giano Arezzo
Loc. Fontiano 4B Arezzo, Tuscany, 52100, Italy
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Frescobaldi Wine Tour/Class Field Trips
... and every store location has a diamond studded tie that goes for about 200,000 euro!
My professor for my Family Business in Italy course this semester is a part of the 30th generation in the Frescobaldi family business (700 years). Her dad is actually the president of the company! The family owns 9 estates in total throughout Tuscany, and we were lucky enough to have her take us to two of them!
Of the two estates we visited, Castello di Pomino specialized ...
Chianti Wine Tasting
... tasting there! We then sat down for the tasting where a spread of cheese, meats, and risotto were served.
The two wines we tasted were distinctly different which I wasn't really expecting. One was spicey and the other was softer and dry. After the tasting we explored the gift shop and gardens. It was a great Friday afternoon!
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And the wine tasting begins
... wine cellars, both which were amazing. I preferred the 1st wine cellar better than the second. The first seemed to have smoother red wines where as the second cantina had very good dry red wines. I'm not a huge red wine person but this I could drink for the rest of my life. It really was something else. One thing that was not to my liking was Grappa- a highly fermented wine that basically is ...
Arezzo: A Day of Favorites!
... olive groves and cypress trees. This is a photographers heaven.
Check out the slideshow . . .
For dinner Tulio recommended that we go to Arezzo ("an authentic Tuscan city").
Arezzo is where Roberto Benigni filmed ...
A nice Chianti... hold the liver and fava beans
... the midst of the hedonistic 1980's (which I sold more than my fair share of back in my perfume peddling days, when fragrance was still a cherished luxury item rather than a cheap chemist commodity. Ah Gino, do you remember those halcyon days - see, even selling the stuff had a certain romance to it!)
We couldn't quite afford to rent our own villa but we got the next best thing - a self contained rustic apartment attached to an old stone farmhouse in ...


