Montepulciano wine tours pour the town's own wine where it is made, in the cellars under the streets or at a grower among the vines. Most last an hour or two, and the fare includes something to eat with the glass.
An hour under the old town in a cellar of oak casks. You taste five DOC and DOCG wines of Montepulciano with pecorino of different ages, bruschetta and crostini, and a guide takes you through the barrels first.
From $37 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
An hour and a half at an organic grower a kilometre from the Tempio di San Biagio. You walk the Sangiovese rows, then taste Vino Nobile and their other labels with taralli, crackers and bruschetta.
From $35 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A cellar hour at Via Ricci 13, a short walk from Piazza Grande. Your flight runs from a Supertuscan through Nobile to Nobile Riserva, with bruschetta and new olive oil, and the booking needs two people.
From $38 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eighty minutes in the Talosa cellar on Via Talosa 8, down among vaults dating from the 16th century. A sommelier pours four of the house wines, Rosso to Riserva, with bread and local products.
From $40 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
An hour and a quarter at a wine resort on Via Umbria. You see the old cellar, then taste three wines, one of them Vino Nobile, over a board of Tuscan cold cuts. Groups of up to twenty.
From $52 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
An hour and three quarters at the Perbacco wine club on Piazza di San Francesco, led by a professional sommelier. The fare lists water and snacks; ask which wines the session covers before you book.
From $80 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Ten hours from Siena station, with about two and a half in Montepulciano. A guided tasting of four wines, Brunello and Nobile among them, and a full Tuscan lunch with wine are in the fare.
From $124 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two private hours at Podere della Bruciata in Sant'Albino, below the hill. You walk the vines, see the natural cellar and taste at least three of their wines with local food. Your own transport there.
From $58 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The cellar hour starts in the centre and pours five DOC and DOCG wines of Montepulciano with pecorino and crostini. You can walk there from anywhere inside the walls.
See this tourIt is a tasting at the place that makes the wine, with somebody who explains it. You stand among the casks, hear how the wine is aged, then sit down to a flight. In this town the wine is Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, made from Sangiovese that the growers here call Prugnolo Gentile.
You choose between two settings. Inside the walls, the cellars run under the old town, cut into the hill below the palazzi. Outside them, the growers sit among their vines on the slopes around the ridge. Your pick decides how you get there and what you see before the first glass.
A wine tour here is short. Most last between an hour and two, so you can fit one around a morning on the Corso or an afternoon at the Tempio di San Biagio.
The whole production area of the Vino Nobile lies inside the comune. Every cellar and grower here is on that ground, so the wine you taste has not travelled.
The town sits on tufa, and its cellars are tunnels and vaults beneath the houses. Talosa dates its vaults to the 16th century and keeps an Etruscan tomb among them. Walking down into one is half the reason to book.
A flight usually runs from Rosso di Montepulciano through Vino Nobile to a Riserva, so you taste the difference that ageing makes. After that the shop shelves make sense.
Several of the doors are inside the walls, a few minutes from Piazza Grande. No driver, no van and nobody has to stay sober.
Here are the two settings side by side, from each listing's own figures.
| A cellar under the town | A winery among the vines | |
|---|---|---|
| Where | Via Ricci, Via Talosa, Piazza di San Francesco | Via dei Canneti, Sant'Albino, Via Umbria |
| Getting there | On foot from Piazza Grande | A car, a taxi or a lift |
| How long | 1 hour to 1 hour 45 | 1 hour 15 to 2 hours |
| What you see | Casks in tufa vaults under the houses | The vine rows, then the cellar |
| Wines | Four to six on most; one lists none | At least three |
| Group size | Up to 15 or 25 | Up to 10, 20, or your party alone |
| Fare, per person | $37 to $80 | $35 to $58 |
If you have no car, the cellars decide it for you. If you want to stand in the vines, book a grower and plan the ride out.
An organic winery a kilometre below the walls: the Sangiovese rows, the cellar, then Vino Nobile with taralli and bruschetta.
Check availabilityFor what each door pours and what a tasting costs, read the full Montepulciano wine tasting guide. For the grapes and the ageing rules, see the vineyards page.
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