Monday, April 3, 2017

Chianti wine tour, Italy

I have previously blogged about the great experience which I had during the Hunter Valley wine tour in Australia in 2015. Subsequently, I went for a wine tour in Khao Yai and more recently, Chianti wine tour in Italy.

As I had great experience with the Hunter Valley wine tour, I must say I have certain expectations of the wine tour and am rather disappointed.

I would do a comparison between the Hunter Valley wine tour and the Chianti wine tour.
The Hunter Valley wine tour costed AUD 100 (lunch excluded) while the Chianti wine tour costed 150 Eur (lunch included). Both were daytrips. For Hunter Valley wine tour, the pickup point was at my hostel whereas for the Chianti wine tour, the pickup point was at the travel agency's office.
The roads to the vineyards in Chianti were winding and uneven (worse than the roads to Genting Highlands!). A bumpy ride after winetasting generally made people feel uncomfortable. My friend felt nausea. Luckily, nobody suffered from motion sickness or vomited during the trip. In comparison, the journey to Hunter Valley in Australia was very smooth.
Chianti is famous for red wines and 80% of the wines we tasted at the 2 vineyards were red wines. It lacked variety. In Hunter Valley, we got to taste white wines, red wines and dessert wines and everyone managed to find something they like. In the first vineyard we visited in Chianti, there was a particular red wine which we tasted and I liked. Unfortunately, the bottle which we tasted was the 2009 bottle and it was not for sale, which made me wonder what is the point of letting us taste the wine if we couldn't buy it. We could buy the 2014 bottle but that was not offered to us for tasting and hence, nobody bought that. Seriously, they need to reflect on their marketing strategy.

Because of the long, winding and bumpy rides, we could only visit 2 vineyards during the Chianti tour. In comparison, I visited 4 wineries during the Hunter Valley tour.

My personal opinion is that the Chianti wine tour pales in comparison to the Hunter Valley wine tour and it was not as fruitful or enjoyable.    

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