Today is our travel day and we're short on time so this will be brief... Spent the day yesterday on a tour of the Montelcino region which included stops at two Brunello wineries. The first was a medium sized operation run entirely by women. The second was a small family vineyard run by the 25 year old son of the owner -that's him in the picture to the right (the family has been producing wine out of the same facility since the 14th century).
We bought two bottles of wine from the first place and two more plus a bottle of olive oil from the second.
Also, it turned out that our guide Jacopo was from caserta (our next stop) and was familiar with Piedimonte Matese... He sounded kind of jealous that we were going there.
We returned home around 8:00 pm and enjoyed our new olive oil and wine. We made a dinner of capellini tossed with olive oil, fresh basil, garlic, tomatoes, and romano cheese.
I'll add some more details on the wine tour as time permits.
A few more pictures from our montelcino excursion:
