TOUR N°1 - Buy Wine 2017

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TOUR N°1
Vernaccia San Gimignano
Cortona
Chianti Classico
12 February 2017 – Consortium Vernaccia San Gimignano
Contact:
Erika Berti +39 3343680226
9.00 a.m.
Meeting point at Florence Hotel
10.30 a.m.
Arrival at Hotel Relais La Cappuccina
Loc. La Cappuccina 46/a - 53037 San Gimignano (SI)
Tel. 0039 0577940381
12:00 p.m.
Light lunch in hotel
2.00 p.m.
Bus Transfer to San Gimignano – bus stop in front of Porta San Matteo
(3 min on foot from Museum De Grada)
2:30 p.m./6 p.m.
ANTEPRIMA VERNACCIA DI SAN GIMIGNANO at MUSEUM DE GRADA:
wine tasting with Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG
6.00 p.m.
Walk back to Porta San Matteo (3 min on foot)
Bus transfer back to Hotel Relais La Cappuccina from Porta San Matteo
8:00 p.m.
Official Dinner at Hotel Relais La Cappuccina with the Chairman of the
Consorzio della Denominazione San Gimignano, Letizia Cesani, the
Deputy Chairman, Ivaldo Volpini, and the producers registered as
participants
in the Anteprima.
Overnight stay
13 February 2017 – Consortium Cortona
Contact:
Laura Albano +39 3472573771
10.30am
Arrival in Cortona (Arezzo), parking in piazzale del mercato, Bifora door
10.40am
Cortona and MAEC guided tour passing through the enoarcheological path (The
Etruscan Academy Museum of the City of Cortona) (www.cortonamaec.org)
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1.00pm
Light lunch with wine producers inside Cortona MAEC exibition room
2.30pm
Departure from Cortona in groups of 3/4 buyers for each winery (transfers will be
organized directly by the wineries)
Each group will visit 3 wineries among these: I Vicini, Stefania Mezzetti, Baldetti,
Cantine Faralli, Giannoni Fabbri, Capoverso, Poggio Sorbello.
7.15pm
Departure from the winery to the restaurant in Cortona (wineries will go with the
guests to the restaurant)
7.30pm
Arrival in the restaurant
8.00pm
Dinner beginning (buyers will be seated in 7 tables, in each one there will be a
winery)
10.30pm
Departure for the hotel Park Hotel in Castiglion Fiorentino (PromoFirenze will
provide us with a bus and a driver)
10.50pm
Arrival in the Hotel and check-in (it would be preferable to have buyers, courier
and driver data before that day, so as to have an easier and faster check-in).
14 February 2017 – Consortium Chianti Classico
Contact
Location
Marilena Mele +39 320 8007959
Casa Chianti Classico
Circonvallazione Santa Maria, 18
Radda in Chianti
Tel. +39 0577 738278
11.00 am
Chianti Classico Master Class
guided by Vice-president Sebastiano Capponi
12.00 p.m. 2.30 pm
Free tasting of Chianti Classico (Annata, Riserva, Gran Selezione)
Wines will be divided by communes and producers will be present
1 p.m.
Lunch buffet with the producers
2.30 p.m.
Winery visits
Dinner and overnight stay at the winery
List of wineries tbc
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15 February 2017
- Departure