On the Road with the Grape Guy
Report from - Verona, Italy - Day 3: Winery Tours ... Sunday January 29, 2012
30 Jan 2012- Details
- Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
Day 3. And it's up at the crack of dawn to jump on some buses and tour the wineries of the area. We have three days of this upcoming. We thankfully have broken down into smaller groups of about 7 or 8 so we don't descend en-mass at a winery - many of which, we have found out, can accommodate these small numbers but not many more. This makes it easy for us to taste wine and have more one on 8 conversations with the winery principals, than a gaggle of reporters shouting questions (yes, any more than 10 is considered a "gaggle". The big question about today was the church visits ... on the schedule were 5 churches and only 4 wineries - made us think the trip was being partially funded by the Catholic Church, so I guess a thank you to the Pope is in order. Interesting to note that all of the churches we visited throughout the day were closed ...a closed church? On a Sunday? It was hard for many of us to believe. Below I will continue my photographic journey through Italy with comments about the pictures and in some cases, between pictures (27,000 words were saved by showing you these). To see the pictures and the stories from Day 3, click here
