Saturday
The first half of the day was spent wandering around the hilltop Etruscan settlement and impressive ancient citadel of Pitigliano, with its tiny narrow streets and curious old shops with hanging hams selling cured wild boar they are commonly abundant within the nearby forests.
It all looks and feels prehistoric.
Narrow streets and old winding stone steps.
The town sits on top of vulcanic rock with dark chambers and hobbit holes carved out underneath for storing sausages, barrels of vino and probably dead bodies...
For some reason the ancient Jewish synagogue was being protected by two armed guards.
This place is so OLD!
History documents it from year 1000 but some of it dates back to B.C.(B4 J.C.)
It's still so old that there is no Wifi to be found for miles around...
With fresh sea bass and calamari purchased for barbecuing
later we left the Bronze Age and headed out next to the local
vineyard of Villa Corano for an afternoon of wine tasting.
Despite the initial 'finished' arm wavering that actually translated as 'Welcome, do come in, the massive dog won't bite you', we were invited to see how grapes are magically transformed into liquids with delicately smoky after tones .....Vino, to you and me!
.... 2 hours later, having tasted everything that they made with their 17 hectares, we sloshed back to retire to the pool HQ with a couple of samples to authenticate. A full bodied single grape 'Alicante' and an old perfumed Rose made with an original grape variety dating back to God knows when, to remind us of how interestingly tasty it all was!
Turned out that it was the brothers place of where we were staying so we had to try his wine too later that evening....
Salve....
Hazy Daze from the Stone Temple Pilots about sums up what a trip to Tuscany is about....!
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