Day #2 of our Tuscany trip brought the group around the town of Arrezzo. We saw more basilicas and this town's Duomo, each getting more beautiful than the last. We also found a spot with an incredible view of the landscape surrounding the town. Actually landscapes were pretty common throughout Tuscany, but they certainly never got old.
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| San Domenico, 13th C., Gothic Style |
Around 3pm, it was another bus ride to Castel del Trebbio - oldest castle in Italy and wine making center (we got to do a wine tasting there!!). But first was the tour around the living areas of the castle and then down to the cellar/dungeon where we saw the barrels and barrels of wine they are making down there. We learned a whole lot about the production of wine and olive oil (always go extra-vergin, dark bottle if possible) before heading to a dining room to try out a white wine, two different red wines (both 'chianti' - one was 1 year old and the other was reserved 3 years. Reserved = SO much better), and a dessert wine which you dip biscuits into to drink. All of them were amazing. And after all that was dinner! Rice dish and bread antipasti, pork, tomato, and potato main course, and a custard dessert served on a crunchy and sugary pastry. I love this country. The entire night was so much fun! And I got some good photos of the sunset from the mountains around the castle (currently my cover photo on fb), the food, and other fun stuff:
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| each barrel holds between 7-9,000 bottles of wine |
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| red reserved, red, white bottles - and the dessert wine in the glass |
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| so beautiful |
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