Affiliate Disclosure

Plainly, and before anything else: Montepulciano Tours may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site, at no extra cost to you.

What that means in practice

The tours listed here are sold by Viator and GetYourGuide. When you follow a link from one of these pages and go on to book, the platform pays us a share of its own commission. You pay the same fare either way; the price on the booking page is the operator's price, not a marked-up one.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator. We do not run any of these tastings, classes or rides, employ any of these guides or hold your booking. Your contract is with the operator, through the platform.

We have no connection with the Comune di Montepulciano, with the Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, with the Tempio di San Biagio, or with any cellar, farm or estate these tours visit.

How tours get listed

Operators cannot pay for placement, position or a badge. A badge on a card is a measured claim: Top rated only on a tour rated 4.9 or higher, Best seller only on the tour with the most reviews, Best value only on the cheapest. Some operators sell several different days, and each appears on its own because each is separately bookable and priced. Two pairs of listings here are the same experience sold by two different companies — one cellar hour and one Cinta Senese farm — and each is shown with its own fare.

The featured tours at the top of the homepage are three different days: an hour in a cellar under the old town, a coach day out of Rome, and five hours on an e-bike among the vineyards.

Prices, ratings and how current they are

Prices, star ratings and review counts belong to the operators and were taken from their own listings on 20 September 2026. They move, and the figure at checkout is the one that counts. Every tour fare is quoted in US dollars because that is the currency the listings were captured in; nothing is converted at an exchange rate. Every fare here is per person, which is the listings' own statement rather than our reading of it.

The sight prices we print are in euros, as each publishes them. The tower, terrace and Museo Civico figures are the Comune di Montepulciano's season notice, published on 1 April 2025 and the most recent one reachable when we checked on 20 September 2026. The Tempio di San Biagio's admission and hours are the temple's own site. The Bravìo delle Botti's date, course and barrel weight are its organisers' own site. The wine's grape, ageing rules and the decrees of 12 July 1966 and 1 July 1980 are the appellation's. Where a detail comes from an operator's listing — a meeting point, a group size, an age limit, what is poured — it belongs to that tour.

What we deliberately do not publish

• "The first DOCG in Italy." It is repeated everywhere and the 1 July 1980 decree is solid, but the claim itself is not made in the appellation's own text that we could reach. We print the decrees instead.
• A 2026 price for the tower or the museum. The notice we can reach is the one published on 1 April 2025. We print its figures with that date attached rather than presenting them as this year's.
• An end-of-season date for the tower. The comune's own notice says 2 November and its press pickup, the same day, says 5 November. Two reports of one notice, two dates, so we write "into early November, weather permitting" and leave it there.
• €3.50 for the Tempio di San Biagio. A resale page quotes it. The temple's own site says €5, and the operator's own site wins.
• A named cellar we cannot verify. The addresses printed here are the ones in the listings' own meeting-point text. One reviewer points out that the sign at a turning carries the winery's name and not the tour's, which is exactly why we print the address.
• A tasting on two listings that sell one. One tasting listing's Includes list names only bottled water and snacks, and another names only lunch. Neither card here claims a pour, and we ask you to check with the operator.