Brunello di Montalcino wine tour

" From the southern bank of the great river, almost as far as the gates of Siena, we find what may be the most specific and characteristic nucleus of the region (but to which, we repeat, the region itself can-not be entirely reduced, except at the price of unacceptable distor-tions). From Siena down we have the "Deep South" of Tuscany, with its treeless miles, with its Maremma, its sparser population, its dif-ferent human and agricultural landscape.
Our Tuscany - the Tuscany we are about to speak of in these pages - is by no means a kind of magic triangle neatly outlined be-tween the mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea, clearly and precisely cut off from the rest of Italy.