Truffle hunting in Chianti with Becky and Adele — watch Daniele and his dogs dig truffles from the earth beneath the oak trees, then enjoy them at the farmhouse with great food, family, and friends.
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How landscape shapes identity — meet Diego Finocchi, who at 24 took out a mortgage to buy a vineyard in Radda in Chianti and built one of Chianti's most celebrated wineries almost single-handedly.
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Giuditta's personal guide to Greve in Chianti — the triangular piazza, Macelleria Falorni's cheese cellar, the winding road from Antella, and why this small town designated as città slow is the perfect base.
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The mulberry tree and the caper bush — two plants that evoke Tuscany and home for Giuditta, filled with memories of her grandmother, childhood summers, and the Chianti countryside.
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Meet Valentina Gadotti — political science graduate turned goat cheese maker in the Chianti hills. Her journey from academia to Podere le Fornaci, and what she learned by listening to the milk.
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How Giuditta went from hating truffles as a teenager to understanding that they are one of the pillars of Tuscan conviviality — from a parking lot sagra to hunting with Daniele and his dogs in the oak woods.
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A medieval hilltop village above Greve in Chianti — fewer than 100 inhabitants, almost no cars, and the ancestral home of Amerigo Vespucci. Designated one of "Italy's most beautiful villages."
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At Podere Somigli, you sit at a shaded table, looking out over the hills. It's the perfect place just to be.
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Diego was twenty-four when he bought 5 hectares on the steep slopes above Radda. He's married to my sister's best friend, and his Chianti Classico has won Tre Bicchieri twice.
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As a teenager, I hated truffles. It took Daniele, his truffle dogs, and the lunch we cooked together to change my mind.
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Valentina left academia to make goat cheese in Chianti. She learned everything the hard way. "Milk talks," she says. "I just had to learn to listen."
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You drive up through vineyards, and suddenly there's a medieval village on the hilltop where 44 people live. Volpaia has been making wine since 1172.
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This is where the week begins and ends. Eleven rooms inside the Folonari family vineyards, 1km from Greve in Chianti. Your home base for the Exploring Chianti tour.
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Dr. Agata Chrzanowska is a Polish-born art historian. She showed me my city—Florence—as if I were seeing it for the first time.
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