Montefioralle Tuscany Chianti Valley

As we told a few days ago, we’ll be in Florence next weekend and an obligatory stop is to MonteFioralle. It is a little borough in Chianti Valley above the village of Greve in Chianti. Last March Illy and I had done a tour in that region and our first rule was: “now we follow a random street on the right because we have to discover this region” and after four or five random turns in tight streets we arrived to a stop light. We waited few minutes and we wondered why there was a traffic light in the middle of nowhere. After green and we turned right and we understood…a wall of a medieval borough on the left…. that was Montefioralle. We parked the car and into five minutes we were walking on medieval streets with no cars and only a couple of persons. The atmosphere was amazing and it seemed to be really in the middle age. Everything so authentic and characteristic. Almost at the end of our mini-trip in that borough we found a little producer of Chianti, Azienda Montefioralle, one of the best Chianti that I tasted. This is the reason of our visit next weekend, we have finished our Chianti……