Saturday, July 31
Liz and I drove from Spannocchia to Montalcino through beautiful, winding back roads, including an unexpected bit of dirt road for a few kilometers. We spent the late morning/early aftenoon in Montalcino, then drove to Chianti to meet the Spannocchia interns for a great tour and tasting of wine and olive oil at Fattoria di Felsina, in Castelnovo Berardenga in southern Chianti. Felsina is the only olive oil producer in Tuscany (and one of only ~20-30 in Italy) that uses a process that removes the olive pits before pressing the olives. They also use a single variety of olives in each of their four special oils, a custom that is very unusual--then they also have a blend that they produce. We finished the day with a short trip into Siena, where we were considering meeting the interns for the Siena Jazz festival, but decided to stop for a few things at the store, and went back to Spannocchia where we enjoyed leftover bisteka fiorentina from the last night's dinner at Officina della Cucina Popolare, plus fresh insalata caprese, plus an excellent chianti from Fattoria Felsina. Era un cena molto eccellente!
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| Fattoria Felsina in Castelnuovo |
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| Fattoria Felsina in Castelnuovo |
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| Fattoria Felsina in Castelnuovo |
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| Fattoria Felsina in Castelnuovo |
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After we arrived in Montalcino we had the perfect cappuccini |
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| Classic view from Montalcino |
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| Classic view of street in Montalcino |
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| Pranzo (lunch) of pappardele con ragu di cingale (wide pasta with wild boar ragu), and glasses of Brunello di Montalcino (Riserva). The base of the glasse is as big as your head--better to aerate the wine. Yum--delicious! |
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| Liz on the wall of the Fortezza |
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