Sunday, June 2, 2013

....motoring through the hill country....

...on our 50cc mopeds....... :)

 ....we took a van from town up to the castle which was built in the 10th century as a lookout for to protect Florence from Sienna....

 ..now it's a winery and olive oil in addition to being the home of the same family who bought it in 1199..
 ..the stones above used to be how they mashed the oil  out of the olives...
the small oak barrels behind me have a sweet "dessert wine" aging in them. The good table wine ages in newer and larger barrels and they come from France. 

 ..this is Allissio setting up our wine and olive oil tasting....
..and this is Steph...excited to have found her spiritual home... di San Pancrazio!!

This was an awesome trip, wish we'd done it our first day here.....if we had we'd have gotten out of town more!

Up and out earlyto

1 comment:

  1. ooops, lost Allissio's pic...he was one of the two tour guides....

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