Experience Untapped Tuscany with Tenuta di Trinoro & Monteverdi Tuscany

Trip for 4 to Monteverdi Tuscany with visit to Tentua di Trinoro

6 days/5 nights

Dinner for 10 in Chicago with Chef Giancarla Bodoni

Wine to be taken home tonight:

Tenuta di Trinoro 2012 (1 bottle)

Palazzi 2012 (1 bottle)

Tuscany

In the medieval hilltop town of Castiglioncello del Trinoro, with views overlooking the UNESCO World Heritage Val d'Orcia, two couples are invited to spend three nights at Monteverdi Tuscany, a rare boutique hotel and spa that offers sophisticated comforts and seclusion. Each uniquely designed room opens onto the town's unpaved roads, giving guests the sense of living their own Italian experience.

During your stay, you will visit the iconic estate Tenuta di Trinoro, which Wine Spectator has called "one of Italy's most iconoclastic modern wine success stories." Trinoro exists in isolation from other wineries, and the wines Andrea Franchetti makes are completely unique in style and substance. The wines are highly perfumed and opulent, at once approachable and meant to be left to develop in the bottle over time. Each vintage is its own unique blend! A collector's dream, the estate is rarely open for visits, but they welcome you to join for a tour, tasting, and lunch.

Before heading to the country, or on your way home, stay for two nights at the Waldorf Astoria's luxurious Rome Cavalieri, where you will experience the best Rome has to offer with fifteen acres of private park, red-clay tennis courts, and glittering outdoor pools.

The lucky winners will bring a part of their Tuscan experience home! Following your travels, Chef Giancarla Bodoni of Monteverdi Tuscany will travel to Chicago to cook a special Tuscan meal in your home for ten people, and the meal will be accompanied by the wines of Tenuta di Trinoro, presented by US Brand Ambassador Sarah Bray.

YOUR TRIP FOR FOUR INCLUDES:

• a three-night stay at Monteverdi Tuscany (two rooms) with daily complimentary breakfast service, an hour of Monteverdi Spa water circuit therapy, dinner at award-winning Ristorante Oreade, and car service within Tuscany
• a tour, tasting, and lunch at the Tenuta di Trinoro estate
• a day of tastings in nearby Montalcino
• a dinner for ten in Chicago at winner's home with Tenuta di Trinoro wines and Chef Giancarla Bodoni from Monteverdi Tuscany
• a two-night stay at Rome Cavalieri, A Waldorf Astoria Resort (two rooms), including a full buffet breakfast at L'Uliveto Restaurant and VAT

TO BE TAKEN HOME TONIGHT:

• one bottle of Tenuta di Trinoro 2012
• one bottle of Palazzi 2012

Notes: Subject to availability between all parties. Blackout dates for the trip are August 13-26, 2018. Chicago dinner availability in November or December 2018, to be confirmed based on mutual availability. Stay at Rome Cavalieri excludes Christmas, New Year's Eve, and Easter holidays, and reservations are accepted starting from one month prior to arrival. Airfare not included. Expires April 14, 2019.

Generously contributed by Tenuta di Trinoro, Monteverdi Tuscany, and Rome Cavalieri, A Waldorf Astoria Resort

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