It's a nice Spring morning here in Florence. The sun is just peaking out over our apartment villa. People are making their wake to work and the aroma of coffee and freshly baked sweet pastries is wafting through the air enticing the senses.

I might have used a bit of poetic license, the smell of maple syrup oatmeal is permeating the air rather than sweet pastries, but that's basically the entire picture. We're all enjoying a rather lazy morning. I got up about a half-hour ago at 9:30 and most of the others staying here got up pretty late as well. We all had a rather long day of wine tasting in the Chianti region in Florence.



We first went to this tiny little medieval village that's been around for hundreds of years. It was awesome walking around the village because it was almost like stepping back in time. There were a few reminders that the village wasn't actually still in medieval times but there were very few.





We next went to the town of Greve which is just down the road from the little village. The town was interesting but it seemed like it was populated with shops geared towards tourists. Although I've realized that all these towns and villages since their inception have been geared towards commerce in one form or another, but now the shops are now a tad more civilized. However, shops like macellerias(meat shops), textile shops, and bakeries still exist.



After a brief walk around town we went down to a wine tasting cellar where we tried a few different wines from the region. We sampled some new harvest chiantis, reserves, and a few supertuscans. The wine tasting process was a little different than most because to taste the wine we first put money on a debit card, we then inserted the card into a slot where the wines were and pushed a button to pour out the wine. I've seen these types of wine tasting places in and around the bay area but apparently I'm the only one.

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