New Chianti Classico Tour a Sensory Delight

This is the ultimate Italian wine tour for oenophiles and foodies! Forget the high-minded stuff, we're talking about a full-fledged dip into "sensory appreciation week" set smack in the heart of Tuscany's Chianti Classico region.

CASTELLINA IN CHIANTI, TUSCANY (PRWEB) February 12, 2004 ---This is the ultimate Italian wine tour for oenophiles and foodies. Forget the high-minded stuff, were talking about a full-fledged dip into sensory appreciation week" set smack in the heart of Tuscanys Chianti Classico region.

Imagine that every day for a week you arise to gaze upon the dusky hills of Tuscany, with views out to the towers of San Gimignano and Siena, and then attend a two-hour wine seminar led by one of Italys foremost experts. This is an in-depth education of Italys wine heritage where tasting skills are honed by blind tasting -- comparing fifty wines (Italian, American, French) by sight, smell and taste. The rest of the six-day tour includes visits to Tuscanys most renowned vineyards, meeting winemakers, more wine tasting at local enotecas, shopping at village markets, even some sightseeing jaunts to Florence and Siena. Meals are seven-course feasts, some prepared at Tramonti by local chefs, some enjoyed in the regions best restaurants where traditional Tuscan meals are showcased. Think truffles.

Heres the scoop. You stay at Podere Tramonti, a 200-acre estate near Castellina in Chianti with vineyards that produce an award-winning Chianti Classico, also olive orchards, and a 12th Century fully restored farmhouse. There are six bedrooms at Tramonti, each comfortably furnished (either queen or twin beds) and with a private bath, so groups are limited to ten people. Kyle Wolfe and her husband Martin Kolk, resident owners of Tramonti, are the hospitable instigators of this totally Tuscan dream tour.

Our goal is to give groups an opportunity to experience a full-immersion Sensory Appreciation tour of Tuscany that includes everything -- wine education, meeting with wine makers who are dedicated to their craft, lots of eating and tasting wines -- where you just surrender to the passion and spell of Tuscanys heritage and beauty," says Wolfe. The whole trip runs Saturday to Saturday, with the next one scheduled for April 10-17, with additional seminars available in May and October 2004. These seminars can also be customized for groups who want specific winery tours or whose members want their seminar tuned for a specific level of wine knowledge.

Want more details? Kyle is also owner of THE CLOWN, a cluster of wine and gift shops in New England specializing in European antiques, artisan objects, and wines from around the world. So you can go to their website, www.the-clown.com and click on tours" and select wine seminar" from the menu (other Tramonti tours include painting sessions, language intensives, and culinary workshops). Or you can email info@the-clown.com and request a brochure. Does this cost a bundle? Not if you consider that everything except airfare is included -- everything. Transportation around Tuscany, airport shuttle, ambiance, splendid accommodations, the seminar, the language, the passion of Italy, the wine, the meals -- it will be the best $2,500 youve ever spent.

Contact Information:

Zoë Alexis Scott
StudioZ/Short Circuit Promotions
PO Box 458
Deer Isle, ME 04627
(207) 358-6400

StudioZ@prexar.com
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