28 August 2017
)The drive probably takes an hour. You are almost back at the airport again. The Lungarotti vineyard shop/site which we visited previously now it seems shut to visitors but if you visit the museum of wine in Torgiano itself, there is a Lungarotti shop next to it. Highly recommended. The last time we visited the shop (sadly I was driving,) an awful lot of wine tasting was done by the party followed by the inevitable purchases of more wine than we had gone in there to buy.
The ticket to the Museum of Wine also covers the Museum of Olive oil which is in the parallel street further on up the road heading into town.
The Museum of Wine was really interesting from all the words associated with cultivation/wine making we have in regular usage now, to examples of all the wine presses etc. From recollection there are about 20 rooms in the museum. It is bigger than you think.
The wine shop next door also sells other bits and pieces, corkscrews, some majolica stuff etc. The woman who was manning the shop on the day we went in spoke limited English so my Italian was given a good workout. She explained she had fractured her wrist and had a titanium plate and screws installed. She was now going to have to have the operation redone because it had not worked. At least she made some money out of our visit.
The Olive oil Museum is a similar size and equally interesting. One of the tiny exhibits was a miniature amphora for olive oil which had been made at the time of the earliest Greek and Persian wars. It certainly made you think when you saw the pristine quality of the amphora.
We had lunch at the restaurant just up the road from the wine museum and will were showered with free crisps to go with the Highlander crisps we had found on sale in a local supermarket. Why the Highlands are associated with crisps?
There is a lovely wine shop/delicatessen on the other side of the road facing the wine museum with a great extensive collection of wines and we visited that as well.