Tastings
The Montepulciano Wine Tasting Guide
What a tasting costs, what each fare pours and feeds you, cellar or vineyard, booking, ages, English, and buying bottles to take home.
Montepulciano Guides
These are the long reads for the choices you make before you book a Montepulciano tour. Which tasting pours what? How do you fit the town into one day? How do you get there without a car? Is a day enough, or should you stay? And what will you eat?
Start with getting to Montepulciano if you have not settled how you are arriving. Start with the tasting guide if you have. The blog answers single questions in fewer words.
Itinerary
One Day in Montepulciano, Hour by Hour
From Porta al Prato to Piazza Grande, the tower, the museum, a cellar and San Biagio before it shuts. Plus a three-hour and a coach-day version.
Getting there
Getting to Montepulciano: Trains, Coaches, Cars and the ZTL
No station in the town, the railheads below it, the car parks and the no-car zone, the climb, and every coach day by hours on the hill.
Decision
Day Trip or Overnight in Montepulciano
What a coach day gives you and what it misses, the day that never enters the town, the evening after the coaches leave, and one night or two.
Food
What to Eat in Montepulciano
Pici, Cinta Senese and pecorino, what each cooking class cooks, the farm lunches, allergies, and what a tasting or a coach day feeds you.
The wine and its rules are on the vineyards page, every tasting on the Montepulciano wine tours page, and every tour on Montepulciano Tours.