Post on 07-Jul-2015
Experience Italian Wine Tasting Tours
Italy is famous around the world for its wine and for its food. Italy is one of the most popular wine
producing countries in the world. Any person who enjoys a glass of wine will know that Italian wine
is one of the best you can get. Going to visit Italy and combining that experience by choosing to go
on an Italian wine tour has the makings of an amazing and memorable vacation. There is nothing as
fantastic as visiting the different wine producing regions in Italy.
Italy is a beautiful country that receives millions of visitors all year round. You can have the pleasure
of seeing the northern area of Tuscany to the enigmatic Sicily to the south of Italy on your Italian
wine tasting tour. Seeing Italy this way takes you to some of the most scenic parts of the country
that are free from the hustle and bustle of city centres and crowds of people. While on an Italian
wine tasting tour you will go to areas that are not found on every tourist guidebook and full of
impatient visitors and queues of people. You can relax in the Italian summer sunshine with a glass of
delicious locally produced wine in your hand.
There are many different regions in Italy and they are each full of unique characteristics and flavour.
When it comes to wine, these distinctive areas are reflected in the variety of different tasting wines
from different areas. You will really get to experience local culture and character while you see the
beautiful and often remote parts of Italy. You can also get a feel for the differences in food in each
region; it can vary as much in taste as the wine.
Italy really is an old hand when it comes to producing wine. People started to grow vineyards there
as long as two hundred years before the birth of Christ. There was a successful and vibrant wine
industry in Rome alone, and it was a leader and artist in wine making and producing. It is a tradition
that has grown over the many centuries. Italy never lost its reputation as having some of the most
beautiful tasting and unique wines in the world. Despite the popularity of other wine producing
countries, Italy is still one of the most popular places to go for a wine tasting tour.
Italy has remained one of the top producers of wine largely because of the variety of grape that are
grown there. Many types of grapes are grown only in certain regions of Italy and are not found
elsewhere. You will be able to visit some of these when you go on an Italian wine tasting tour and
get to sample the naturally produced wine straight from the home of the vineyards.
Another reason for Italy’s unparalleled success as a wine producing country is the different weather
conditions that are experienced in different parts of the country. From the mountains to the coasts,
vineyards can be found.