A completely different Tuscany.
Ask anyone what Italian wine you know and most will answer “Chianti”. Chianti. Chianti is Tuscany too. No less famous a name, but somehow more wine than Tuscany.
Actually, thanks to the critical mass of visual content in a hilly-wheat-cypress-willowy colours, shot 90% in the Val d’orcia, which I told in a previous post, Tuscany is perceived by the majority just like not any different. I also believed that the entire region consists of rolling hills and endless fields. But Tuscany, it turns out, is much, much more!
That only is Chianti — the endless serpentines among the truffle forests, the birds singing in the vineyard under the window…
Photos and text aquatek-filips1. No, in this post I’m not going to tell you about our cool house, still, he deserves a separate story. Let me just say that we settled on the outskirts of Gaiole in Chianti surrounded on all sides by forests full of truffles. Still free from forest slopes are all planted with vineyards, small independent winemakers. Their wines are literally crammed all the local shops where even the smallest market the choice of labels such that you feel like you’re in a giant wine boutique.
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3. Do not be lazy to open the pictures from the post about “the Tuscany” and compare. Just the sky and the earth, how different are the two small neighboring region of Tuscany!
4. Here, even the sky the other shades! Apparently, the dominance of pale yellow tones on the bottom affects the dynamic range of the human eye, so the sky looks more smoky, less saturated. Although I may be talking garbage, but the perception of it is this: the sky is different.
5. Hills, villas on the tops — all the same as in the Val d’orcia, but there is no plowing, lots of vineyards, green pastures and forests.
6. In the distance, San Gimignano is a stunning city which we, unfortunately, did not get.
7. Plowed field, incidentally, is also caught. But in the midst of lush greenery, yellow vineyards and forests, they leave a very different feeling.
8. In Chianti, you can rent a huge number of villas. In addition to wine, this is a whole line of business in the region, because there is a huge demand for a secluded getaway among the vineyards and olive groves.
9. Many vineyards are open for trips, their owners have not carried their possessions with a fence or wire, being absolutely loyal to the tourists.
10. The surrounding town of Radda in Chianti. One of the stunningly beautiful locations.
11. It’s somewhere near Greve in Chianti.
12. A normal house of an ordinary village resident in Italy. Would like to live? At least in retirement?
13. Sometimes in the vineyards you can find interesting objects and angles.
14. Why, vineyards, endless views.
15. From here, from these berries and the famous Chianti Classico.
16. This is not the grapes, if that. I don’t know what kind of fruit, but the trees with them here is full.
17. By the way, unlike the Val d’orcia, where the cypress trees grow everywhere, in the Chianti a lot of poplars. They are similar in form, but in the autumn are piercingly yellow and stunningly beautiful look in the pictures.
18. Another local culture — the tobacco.
19. So if anyone knows, natural tobacco looks that way.
20. And again, cypress poplar.
21. Villages in Chianti — solid picture. It seems like this is some indicative settlement for any exhibition or specially constructed on the route of the President home from work. But no, it is just an ordinary village.
Shakes grooming. Why do our villages look like old whore or drunken laborer in rags? Rhetorical question…
22. Road. Like just a road, but it is beautiful
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24. But this serpentine road, which is in Chianti hundreds of kilometers. Most, of course, meander through the forest, but sometimes come across and so such species.
25. But it is a small village road, then winding through the forest between the vineyards…
26. There are in Italy abandoned unsightly things. … But still attractive. And something tells us that is left here on purpose. One hundred percent, in ten or twenty years, this tractor will become overgrown with ivy and moss, and will become a local landmark.
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