Friday, February 3, 2012

Wine Tasting...Bere Vino...Cheers!

Went to Class again and then went out to lunch with Andreka and Caitlin at Bar il Palio.  We decided to sit outside and eat...wrong choice...the pigeons were so annoying and walking around us.  Even though I did hear Pigeon was a delicacy here #interesting.  I ended up ordering a small pizza that was on the menu...kinda of to small for me...AKA never ordering pizza here again its to small and was the same price as a normal sized pizza I usually get for dinner.  We sat and ate in front of the il Campo and got a cool pic
After lunch went back to the hotel and did some homework and then went off to wine tasting at the Enoteca Italiana. So we learned alot but it was a bit disappointing the wine tasting, I thought I was going to learn alot more and they were going into more detail on how to Appreciate Wine as I put it. To tell if you have a good wine: If the wine bottle label is pink it is a good red wine and if the label is green it is a good white wine.  You can also check more about what's in the wine from its DOCG.  We got to taste three wines:

 1st Vino  Vernaccia Di San Gimignano - 2010 white wine

 2nd Vino   - Azienda Agraria San Gregorio - Chianti San Gregorio Red Wine (my favorite one-surprisingly bitter) 
 3rd Vino   - 2008 Crescendo - Red Wine (fruityish taste) 
We got some cheese/bread/salami to munch on during the wine tasting but after we got to go down to the wine cellar and we got to see all the other wines and got to take tones of pictures...the cellar was beautiful and we called it our personal Vino Collection
Wine Tasting in Siena in a Nutshell



After taking a tone of pictures in the wine cellar we ended up going out to dinner with Peter, Lizzie, Liz, Erin, Lauren, Andreka, Analiza, Ellyn, Sergio, Vicki, and Chelsea.  We went to "Trattoria Fonte Giusta" for dinner.  Party of Dodici! I got a Carretta Pizza - Pomodoro, mozzarella, tonno, cipolla for my main course and got Kuchen mit Kreme und Schokolade for dessert. It was so good the pizza was huge and i finished almost all of it except for a quarter...but I definitely opened my second Stomach for the cake!!!! Our bill came out to 154€...........Holy Crap!!!!! Well the desserts were worth it since Ellyn cried over her Tiramisu Hahaha.  But we were lucky a guy kept hitting on Lauren so he felt bad so he payed for all our desserts...So MUCHOS GRACIAS to Lauren...I mean Grazie Mille Lauren!!!!



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