Just a quick and thankful feedback on two days in Florence and the northern Chianti region, coming south from a Cinque terre hiking trip for some wine.
First day we went to Enoteca Pitti Gola et Cantina and had a blast with a white truffle menue and some bubble and nice Nebbiolo and Brunello / Sangiovese to go with the main courses, well worth a re-visit, thank you very much. Next time I will ask if the normal wine to go with the menues can be upgraded to the old Chianti wine tasting. The oldest red on the wine menue was from 1907, no less.
On our way to grab the bus line 7 to go back up to Fiesole where we usually stay when in town we had a quick snack and a glass of Tignanello in the Antinori Wine bar. Nice setting and nice wine, first try for me of the better Antinori bottlings.
Next day we drove south to Greve and on to Panzano to visit Fontodi which Chianti Classico I knew and like and the place being rather north inside Chianti, as we wanted to drive back north to Cinque Terre that same day. We had a quick tasting with the owner / manager who gave us a charming overview of the wine and winery.
We also chatted a bit about the wines of the winery, Florence (he knew and complimented us on Pitti Gola) and the german wine region we come from. We ended with a case of CC and one bottle of Flacianello (1 bottle max).
Driving direction north / back already we had a nice lunch at Osteria di Passignano which is inside/close to a nice monastery (monastery and winery closed on Thuesday tho) and had really great food. Out of the impressive but way overpriced wine list I went with the 2012 Il Poggione Brunello which was nice and ok price-wise, luckily the wife had promissed to drive for the afternoon going back north.
Two notes - we were very lucky as later in the week Florence saw some really bad flooding which we missed by like 2 days, we had ok wheather for the whole week. Just one day of rain between visiting Florence / Chianti and hiking in Cinque Terre and Portofino which we ended up going to Serravalle, the biggest Outlet in Europe.
Second note is on northern Italy by fully electric car (Audi Q4) and it was no problem at all for the whole trip from south Germany through Switzerland and going south to Milano, Genua, Florence and Chianti, plenty of charging spots and never an issue to replenish the charge.