Tuscany

by Hugh Johnson

Book Overview

Starting and finishing in Florence, this guide explores the delights of Italy's best-loved wine region, Tuscany, and unveils the secrets behind its esteemed winemaking traditions. Carefully planned... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857325826
• ISBN13: 9781857325829
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Helpful guide for Tuscan food & wine touring

This is a very helpful book. We have similar guides in the series for Burgundy, Alsace and Rhone. I highly recommend them. Our experience in Italy is that wine tourism per se is much less formal than France, Germany and US. That means the traveller must be a lot more curious and self sufficient. Bring along a fullscale Michelin road atlas and be prepared to ask a lot of questions. Try to learn an little Italian. It goes a long way. People were uniformly friendly and went way out of their way to draw local maps, add add'l restaurants to your list and even call wine makers for tours (on your behalf). Wine makers (such as Tenuta dell'Ornellaia) who otherwise don't open their doors to the public. Buy the book if you plan to tour wine regions in Tuscany!

winetraveler in Toscany can't do without.....

We found the book in our rented hous in Toscany. We were located in the middle of the Chianti Classico area. We follewed one of the trips in the book and we saw one of the best castellos in the Chianti: Castello di Brolio. Absolutely fantastic.

an essential guide to wine lovers in tuscany

a wondweful book for wine and food lovers, traveling in Toscana. Very useful information about roads, hotels, restaurants, and of course - wine producers and their wines. This book is a must!

an essential wayfinding tool

We used this on our last trip to tuscany and it took us to locations that turned into treasures.