This wine tasting was only sampler to whet our palettes for the winery we were headed to called Casa Emma. Casa Emma produced Chianti Classico and a Supertuscan Merlot. We got a brief tour of the facilities, where one of the winemakers Paolo gave us a little talk about the wine making process and the history of Casa Emma.





After the tour we were served lunch and the best food I've had in Italy so far. For Antipasti we ate bruschetta, homemade prosciutto, salame with figs, roasted eggplant slices, beans mixed with parsley, olive oil, salt, pepper, served on small bread slices, and roasted yellow peppers with garlic, parsley, olive, salt, pepper, served on top of bread as well. Now that was only appetizers. For the main course we ate a penne with a pine nut, tomato, basil, olive oil sauce that almost tasted like a meat sauce. The pasta was cooked perfectly al dente and is the best pasta I've had so far in Italy. For dessert we had a vin santo served with cantuccini, what Americans call biscotti. The cantuccini is meant to be dipped in the vin santo, of which the latter was very reminiscent of port. I was pretty much a beached whale after lunch.



Oooh, I totally forgot that we were served wine with each of our courses. Our first wine was a recent harvest Chianti Classico with our antipasti. We were next served a Chianti Classico Riserva and then a Supertuscan merlot with our primi patti, and then with dessert we had the vin santo whicn I mentioned earlier. I ended up buying a bottle of the vin santo I liked it so much.



After another short drive, we headed to the hamlet of San Gimignano. The hamlet is supposedly the best preserved medieval town in the Chianti region. It was literally like stepping back in time again.



I would really recommend a wine tour if you make your way to the Chianti region. You get to see so much it's awesome.

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