Image of Vinarium, Tuscany Vinarium, Tuscany:
Vinarium based in Florence, Italy, is a tour operator specializing in wine and food programs for tourists. Vinarium offers wine tours in Tuscany, guided wine tasting in the best Florentine enotecas (local wine shops), cooking lessons and classes in historical buildings, and guided visits to the best Tuscan wine makers.

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English Guided Wine Tasting:
Try how wines can arouse your senses: look, smell and taste. You can't imagine how many sensations you can discover in a glass of wine.

Wine Tasting classes include:
- Private wine tasting
- Super Tuscan Guided Tasting
- Brunello Cellar Tasting
- Group guided wine tasting.

Private Winery Excursions include:
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- Montalcino and the Brunello
- Seize the Day and the Photo (A guided wine and photo tour in the Chianti classic area with a professional photographer)
- Siena and San Gimignano
- Montepulciano and the Nobile
- Sassicaia and the Coastal Wines
- Wine and tourist programs for Cruisers
- Some of the best Supertuscans in the Chianti Classico area
- Oil cheese and wine in Impruneta and Chianti
- Chianti Rufina
- Montec Image of Italian Wine & Food Tours in Tuscany, Italy arlo and the Lucca Villas

Private Winery Excursion in Montalcino, and the Brunello:
We offer full-day guided tours to Montalcino (120 km south of Florence) wineries by private car or mini-bus. The tour includes wine cellar visits, wine tasting and lunch. Imagine being in one of the most famous cellars in the middle of Brunello vineyards.... in this program you have the chance to visit 2 of the best cellars in the Montalcino area. Everything seems like a dream in the Brunello kingdom-the castle and village of Montalcino atop the highest hill, the roads through the Sangiovese grosso vineyards, the taste from the huge barrels resting in the deep cellars

Tour Highlights:
- Travel by private air-conditioned minibus
- English speaking expert guide in history of art, wine and cookery
- Brunello, the King of Tuscan wines.

Tour Schedule:
- 9:00 Departure from Florence or your location
- 10.30 Visit the Altesino winery and tasting
- 12:00 Visit of Montalcino historical center and lunch at Grappolo Blu
- 15:00 Visit the San Antimo Abbey
- 16:00 Visit the Poggio Antico winery and wine tasting

Cooking Lessons in Tuscany:
Vinarium offers private or group lessons with dinner in Florence or a residential programs in Maremma or in Elba Island.

Cookery classes include:
- Tuscan Cooking private lessons
- Tuscan cooking group lessons
- Maremma residential course
- Art and Cuisine in Florence
- Residential fish cooking course in Elba Island
- Tuscan dinners at your location
- A day in the kitchen of a famous Florentine chef
- Arturo Dori, a famous chef at your home
- Cooking lesson and dinner at Il Maccherone with Sabrina
- Cooking lessons with guided shopping at the market

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