Relais La Torre Arezzo
Localita Chiassa Superiore 360 Arezzo, Tuscany, 52100, Italy
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Arezzo: A Day of Favorites!
We drove from Le Grazie through Tuscany to a countryside region of Arezzo. Our new home is the magnificant vini e olio inn:
Relais La Torre
The inn is owned and run by Tulio & Linda Marcelli (Linda is the same name as John's first boss at M.L.). They live on this organic, agriturismo complex with their …
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Frescobaldi Wine Tour/Class Field Trips
We have only had a few days actually in the classroom for Family Business and it's great because we've had the opportunity to see a lot of Florence that I may not have been able to do on my own.
Monday, we went to visit the Antico Setificio Fiorentino which is a textile company that started in late 1700s. Their antique silks for tapestries and other products are prestigious and their price definitely reflects the quality. The looms are weaved in the small facility by ...
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 ...
Roma, plus sunshine in Tuscany
... was time to move out of our wee apartment which was a real shame because it really was a lovely place, we’d got to know the owners dog, we loved cooking meals (I can say ‘we’, because I helped most nights and actually cooked one night!!!). We were moving down about 50k’s South to the town of Montepulciano. We’d moved down there to be closer to our big adventure – a hot air balloon ride. It was supposed to be on the Tuesday but it ...


