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A country house amidst the rolling green hills of Tuscany and the Etruscan coast, surrounded by the vineyards in which some of Italy’s finest wines are made: Tenuta dell’Ornellaia.

In Count d’Attimis-Maniago’s cellars, just a few kilometers from Udine, the passion for the wines of Friuli Venezia Giulia is a 500 year old family tradition.

In the town of Canelli, in the province of Asti, the cellars of the Casa Contratto winery are authentic underground cathedrals , situated some 32 meters beneath the surface, and in which, for over a century, the great wines produced with Piedmonts Chardonnay and Pino Grigot grapes have been lovingly conserved.

Valpolicella, Ripasso, Lugana and Bianco di Custoza: just some of the labels produced by Cantina Fratelli Zeni, impeccable custodians of the wine culture of Veneto.

Founded in the distant 1665, in an aristocratic palazzo in Salice Salentino, the Leone de Castris winery produces a number of Puglia’s finest wines, including the historic Five Roses rosé wine.

Feudi di San Gregorio is a stunning modern winery designed by architects Hikaru Mori and Maurizio Zito, and a favorite port of call for lovers of the powerful wines produced in the wild mountains of Campagna’s Irpinia region.

The lunar landscape of the Crete Senesi, the vineyards of Chianti, the ancient settlements of the Etruscans, the medieval towers of San Gimignano, and, of course, the marvelous wines of Tuscany: a tour of the province of Siena is all this and more.

Forty hectares of Tenuta San Lorenzo’s four hundred hectare estate, in the countryside between Foligno and Spello, are used to cultivate the grapes for Umbria’s magnificent Sagrantino di Montefalco, a dry and full bodied red with a bouquet which recalls the scent of the wild blackberries growing in San Lorenzo’s woods.

The fertile slopes of Collio, on the border between Italy and Slovenia, provide the ideal terrain for the cultivation of vines of  French origin, and the production of  some of Friuli Venezia Giulia finest white wines.

The Lison Pramaggiore D.O.C wine road: an itinerary rich in history, wine cellars, and gastronomic traditions, which winds its way through the ancient vineyards where the wine for the Doges of Venice was once made.