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Today we took a 9:30am bus to the world's best wine vineyards in Piedmonte. The wine countryside was just rows and rows of vineyards as far as the eye could see. Even the bus stop had grapes growing in it. After our walk around the countryside we were escorted to a family's vineyard where we were taken into their 17th century cellar and were shown wine making tools from the past and their award winning 1964 bottles of wine which they sell for only $50 Euro..... Grange for $1000 a bottle in Australia definately overrated. It was great to be inside a real cellar and learn from a wine producing family. Of course about 11:30am we were able to have a wine tasting of about 4 red wines which were nice...I was surprised as I normally don't drink red. The difference between wine tasting in Australia and wine tasting in Italy - Italians pour you a glass of red, not a sample lol so there were a lot of 'happy' people by lunch time. Lunch was served at a family's home where we had four courses (veal with eggplant, tuna pasta, slow cooked veal with honey veges and an apple pie and weird chocolate dessert. Wine was included at only a cost of $20 euro per person for the whole meal with drinks. We then took the bus back to the hotel where we arrived at 5pm. Unfortunately I had head cold (not a bad one, haven't had one for two years so I had a good run) and was quiet happy to have panadol and rest for the evening.
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