Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Tuscan Getaway - Montepulciano

Sunday morning we were off to visit some more vineyard..

 This was my favorite wine tasting session of the weekend. I learned a lot and we got some great wine!
 We "lucked" out and got to try some very expensive (210 Euro a bottle!) dessert wine before we left.
 For those of you Twilight fans out there, the scenes from Volterra, Italy are actually filmed here in Montepulciano (again, Hollywood worked its magic for the fountain).

Chris being a great sport and channeling his inner Edward :) 

 View from Montepulciano...
 Etruscan caves full of wine!


 Wine tasting after exploring the caves.
 Jess and Jimmy were celebrating their 1st anniversary this weekend.  We met up with some of their friends who were traveling through Tuscany for dinner.  After a delicious meal, Jess got to do the honor of opening the celebratory champagne-with a sword!




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