3 Days Valpolicella Wine Experience from Florence

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Valpolicella Classica
3 stops
1
Negrar di Valpolicella
Arrival and Hotel/Winery Check-In. Winery Visit and lunch: Visit a Winery from 1821 in the heart of Valpolicella, an area with strong and deeply rooted tradition of viticulture and wine making. This passion began thanks to an inheritance: three hectares of vineyards, whose wine was produced only for domestic use; the family used to love to spend springs and its spare time in this Cru, called “Le Bessole”. Walk through the manicured vineyards and historic cellars before concluding with an intimate tasting-lunch at the agriturismo
5 hours • Admission ticket free
2
Afternoon Winery Visit: small boutique winery where they work the land day after day with courage and determination, looking after a place that is first and foremost our home.This beautiful commitment is the expression of acts that perform year after year and is repaid by the cyclical rhythm of the vines and the endless shades of green in their valley, which is as lovely and cosy as a living room.The winery is surrounded by vineyards, olive and almond trees that cover the hills with countless shades of green.Here you will find the traditional hospitality of the Rame, the houses where it was once possible to enter and ask for a flask of wine. We no longer offer simple tastings, but opportunities to breathe more slowly in the shade of the vines.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
3
Dinner: at Trattoria ion the hills of Valpolicella
2 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Valpolicella South and Verona
3 stops
4
Morning Winery Visit: Visti a family-run winery founded by Carlo Boscaini (who lived to the venerable age of 102 drinking wine in modest quantity but high quality) produced wine with great passion.The winery covers an area of 14 hectares over looking the famous village of St. Giorgio Ingannapoltron, known around the world for its marvelous ancient church, cloister, and archeological excavation.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
5
Torbe di Negrar
Afternoon Winery Visit: Visit a boutique winery in Valpolicella with a history dating back 1970. The passion for the land and for the vineyard led the father’s owner to move to a farmstead with a rural house dating back to 1601 in the ‘I Martini’ area. In the historic cellar, with vaulted arches in Pietra di Prun, high-quality wines have been aged in wooden barrels since as early as 1908, and with the father’s owner guidance, he still carry on this tradition today. Walk through the manicured vineyards and historic cellars before concluding with an intimate tasting-lunch at the winery Osteria.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
6
Verona
Afternoon/Evening Verona City Tour: After lunch, head to Verona for a private guided tour of the city, famous for its history and as the setting of Romeo and Juliet. Dinner: At typical trattoria Veronese.
5 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Valpolicella Center
3 stops
7
Check-Out and Transfer to the first winery. Morning Winery Visit: The Estates were born from a long family tradition that last since XVIII century when Lorena’s great grandfather moved from Mantova to the beautiful Valpolicella valley to work as metayer for landowners they cultivated vineyards. After the big estate was divided in various land plots, to made each family independent; to Lorena grandfather was assigned the most southern part, where even today at the entrance there is a stone stele on which it’s written the date 1798, which witness the Napoleonic age of the land plot. They have vines older than 40 years, used the present gems, preserved the environment and she converted her company in biologic.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
8
Afternoon Winery Visit and lunch: This winery was born from the meeting between a successful driver, Vanni Pasquali, and Franco Allegrini, a lifelong friend and a renowned wine producer from Valpolicella. Franco is the Maestro, owner of Allegrini Estates. Vanni is a driver and car tester—a racing champion. His story is one of success, built on perseverance and ambition. These same qualities have been poured into this new winemaking project. The project stems from a story of friendship and collaboration that led a man, with pride, to bring back to life a place that had long been abandoned.Wander through the vineyards, visit the majestic cellar from ‘600,and having a tasting lunch with the best amarones of the property.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
9
Florence
Depart to Florence.
3 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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