Best Traditional Italian Tuscany and Piedmont Wine Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Italy travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional Italian Tuscany and Piedmont Wine Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Italian wine heritage - substantially the world's largest wine producer with substantial 4,000+ year continuous heritage - has considerable cultural-tourism infrastructure across Tuscany (sizable Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano), Piedmont (significant Barolo, Barbaresco - UNESCO-listed Vineyard Landscape), Veneto (extensive Amarone, Prosecco), Sicily (large Etna heritage), and various others. Plan ten days for a focused trip with major broader Italian cultural-tourism integration. This is one of the world's most internationally recognized wine-cultural heritages with ample accessible cultural-tourism infrastructure. Background Italian wine heritage extends substantially back to meaningful Etruscan and Greek-colonial origins (sizeable 1st-millennium BCE). Substantial Roman-era expansion substantiall...