Italian Wineries Open their Doors for “Cantine Aperte”

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Click on the region you’ll be visiting during Cantine Aperte. We’ll choose Tuscany as an example.

It’s a long list on the Tuscany page, not surprisingly – but there’s an option to narrow it down a bit by choosing the province you’ll be in. For this step, you’ll need to look up the province of whatever town is your homebase from which you’ll be exploring (you can find the province easily on a town’s Wikipedia page – and if they’re too small to have a Wikipedia page, choose a nearby town that’s bigger and look up that town’s province). For the purposes of this example, we’re going to choose the province of Lucca.

There are five wineries listed, each with an address, phone number, fax number, and a link from the winery name for the winery’s information page on the MTV site. We’ll click on Fattoria del Buonamico for this example.

This page provides all kinds of great information – including languages spoken at the winery, whether they have wine tastings, what grapes they grow, how big the winery is, a Google map showing where the winery is, and even an email address and website URL when applicable. (This is, incidentally, the same page you’d get to if you clicked the “Data Winery” button from the winery list on the previous page.)

Because things can change from year to year and I wouldn’t be 100% confident that everything on the MTV website is up to date, I’d be sure to call or email any wineries you were thinking of visiting for Cantine Aperte just to make sure they’re open on that day and participating in the event. If you have time in a town before Cantine Aperte, you should also stop into the local tourism office to see if they have a special Cantine Aperte map for their area.

photos, top to bottom, by UmbriaLovers, UmbriaLovers