Wine making tools.

Here is Shelley with an old fashion Barrel

Here you can see a coleccion of barrels and wine containers

Underground cellars.

Visiting a Cantina (Wine cellar) in Montepulciano

From Small Barrels with wax on the cork.....on the Highest level of the cellar.
Here the temperature was Cold as we went down...

Check the gas

opening on top of the Barrels, to let the CO2 scape.

This level of cellar was cold ond old.

Here you can see the diferents level aging barrels.

Visiting Fattoria(Cantina=Winery) Pulcino, in Montepulcino/ Visitando la Bodega Pulcino en Montepulciano.

In this Cantina they let you test wines, and they pour like a 2 oz for each glass, plus a lot of snack, as prociutto, formaggio, pane e olio di oliva....you wont believe it!!. for free.!!

Here is Shelley and this room was an etruscan tombe (grave).....

underground rooms or cellars....

Bartender Autority at this Etruscan Tomb (graves)....

A Street in Montepulciano......

Visiting the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano/ Sin Palabras.

In the Holy Land..../ La tierra prometida.

In Montepulciano.

Hard to drive here.....

A perfect picture to describe the wine country....

Vineyards everywhere.

Around San Gimignano/ Alrededor de San Giminiano

Hills all over....

Shelley at San Donato's Wine shop.

Like the old times.

and more vineyards....

City of San Giminiano.

Visiting Italy's Wine Country: Toscany/ Visitando la tierra del vino en la Toscana, Italia.

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Tasting some locals wines and Grapa.

This is the famous "Cantina", or Wine cellars.

Bartender Authority with the Fermentation Tanks.

Local vineyards at San Donato's fattoria. San Gimignano, Siena.

Visiting Italy s Wine Country/ Visitando la tierra del vino en Italia

in Italy I visited San Geminiano (San donato), where we have a tasting of chianti, grappa, olive oil...then we went to the land of Vino Nobile de Momtepulciano, visiting a couple of Cantinas (wine cellars) even one of them have this Etruscan Grave, from the II ac.?, and the Wine museum, Then we visited Pienza Home of the Famous Pecorrino cheese, and then on the way to Montalcino, we saw the best view of the Italian country.

Fnally we got to Montalcino, home of the famous Brunello di montalcino, were we got a bottle on the Winerie itself!!!!

I will be loading a bunch of pictures ASAP.

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