Tuscany Wine Tour


Tuesday 21st – Saturday 25th April 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 12th – Saturday 16th May 2026 – fully booked
Monday18th – Friday 22nd May 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 29th September – Saturday 3rd October 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 6th – Saturday 10th October 2026 – fully booked

5 days/4 nights based in Siena, £1,599pp, £125 single supplement
Price excludes flights/Early booking discount available

  • Visits to renowned estates, meeting owners and winemakers, and tasting top level wines
  • Our visits will cover key DOC and DOCG areas of Chianti, Bolgheri, Montalcino or Montepulciano and San Gimignano
  • Staying in Siena with its stunning architecture, beautiful Duomo and amazing history
  • We will enjoy equisite landscapes that Tuscany is renowned for
  • At least six visits over three days
  • Comprehensive tastings at every visit, and four fabulous tasting lunches or dinners
Quick links to
  1. Tour dates 2026
  2. Outline Itinerary
  3. Key Tour Information
  4. Flight Transfers
  5. How to book this tour
  6. More about my Tuscany Wine Tour
  7. More about Tim Syrad Wine Tours

Tour dates 2026

Tuesday 21st – Saturday 25th April 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 12th – Saturday 16th May 2026 – fully booked
Monday18th – Friday 22nd May 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 29th September – Saturday 3rd October 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 6th – Saturday 10th October 2026 – fully booked

Outline Itinerary

Day 1
Our tour commences at our Meeting Point at Pisa Airport (see Flight Transfers below). Our coach will meet the mid morning arriving flight from London and we will transfer for a tasting lunch before heading to Siena to check into the NH Siena hotel.

Evening at leisure.

Day 2
Chianti will be our focus of our first day with visits in the Classico zone where some of the finest expressions of Sangiovese can be found.

Forests and natural amphitheatres of vines will illustrate the uniqueness of the terroir. Two visits and lunch.

Evening at leisure

Day 3
We head towards the coast and the Bolgheri DOC. This is where Sassicaia first emerged and started the whole legacy of the SuperTuscan.

The area has expanded rapidly over the past twenty years with many exciting new wineries. Two visits and lunch.

Evening at leisure.

Day 4
Our final day covers Montalcino or Montepulciano where we taste more fabulous examples of Sangiovese and witness more incredible terrain.

We will enjoy a light lunch and two visits, and on our return to Siena we will have our final night dinner together.

Day 5
We should have time to fit in a visit and light lunch in San Gimignano to better understand the white Vernaccia grape before heading back to Pisa for the flight back to the UK.

Note: the Itinerary may be changed at Tim Syrad Wine Tours discretion so as to facilitate the smooth running of the tour and to accommodate great opportunities for visits or tastings that may become available.

Key Tour Information

* The Key Tour Information specifies what you should expect from the tour, no matter how far ahead you book.
As additional information is published on the website, it will be advised to clients who have reserved a place. The daily itinerary will be finalised in the weeks leading up to the Start Date.

Pricing

  • £1,599 per person based on 2 people sharing a double/twin room.
  • £125 supplement for single occupancy of a double room,
  • £100 discount for bookings made before 1st January 2026, and paid for 10 weeks before departure.

Price includes

  • Transport from the Meeting Point at Pisa Airport to the hotel on Day 1, and to the Departure Point at Pisa Airport on Day 5.
  • 5 days (including arrival and departure days)/4 nights bed and breakfast in a 4* hotel in Siena.
  • Coach for all activities in the itinerary.
  • Three full days of visits and tastings.
  • Six visits/tastings, including wineries in areas such as Chianti Classico, Montalcino or Montepulciano and Bolgheri, experiencing the key wine styles of each region.
  • Four lunches/dinners with local wines.
  • All local taxes and service charges.
  • The services of Tim Syrad as your Wine Tour Manager and Wine Guide.

It is a condition of my accepting a booking that you will take out appropriate travel insurance – please see our Terms and Conditions Section 8.

Terms and Conditions are available here or on request.

Please note flights are not included in the price. Many of my clients prefer to extend their holiday before or after my tours, so I let people make their own flight arrangements.

* End of Key Tour Information

Flight Transfers

Our Meeting and Departure Point is Pisa Airport.  I will arrange transfers to coincide with the following flights.

Tour 1

Outbound (Tuesday 21st April 2026 )
British Airways from London Heathrow to Pisa (PSA). Flight BA0614 departs LHR 0825 arrives PSA 1140.
Return (Saturday 25th April 2026 )
British Airways from Pisa to London Heathrow. Flight BA0617 departs PSA 2000 arrives LHR 2115.

Tour 2

Outbound (Tuesday 12th May 2026)
British Airways from London Heathrow to Pisa (PSA). Flight BA0614 departs LHR 0825 arrives PSA 1140.
Return (Saturday 16th May 2026)
British Airways from Pisa to London Heathrow. Flight BA0617 departs PSA 2000 arrives LHR 2115.

Tour 3

Outbound (Monday 18th May 2026)
British Airways from London Heathrow to Pisa (PSA). Flight BA0614 departs LHR 0820 arrives PSA 1135.
Return (Friday 22nd May 2026)
British Airways from Pisa to London Heathrow. Flight BA0617 departs PSA 2010 arrives LHR 2125.

Tour 4

Outbound (Tuesday 29th September 2026)
British Airways from London Heathrow to Pisa (PSA). Flight BA0614 departs LHR 0825 arrives PSA 1140.
Return (Saturday 3rd October 2026)
British Airways from Pisa to London Heathrow. Flight BA0617 departs PSA 2000 arrives LHR 2115.

Tour 5

Outbound (Tuesday 6th October 2026)
British Airways from London Heathrow to Pisa (PSA). Flight BA0614 departs LHR 0825 arrives PSA 1140.
Return (Saturday 10th October 2026)
British Airways from Pisa to London Heathrow. Flight BA0617 departs PSA 2000 arrives LHR 2115.

Flight details will be advised when British Airways publishes its LHR/PSA schedule for September/October 2026.

Please contact me if you would like to discuss travel options, for example flying to or from a different airport or making the journey by rail or driving.  I cannot arrange travel for you, but I can advise on what might work best.

How to book this tour

Please contact me by phone or email, or use the enquiry form on the Contact page on the website to check availability.  When I confirm a place is available, please complete the booking form to reserve your place.

Once I have confirmed a tour is proceeding I advise clients to arrange flights and confirm travel arrangements to me. Please do not arrange flights before I have confirmed your place and that the tour is proceeding.

Full payment must be made 10 weeks before the tour starts, invoices will be sent out 12 weeks before the tour starts.  At this point you will need to provide your insurance details (name of insurer, policy number, 24 hour emergency telephone numbers), outbound/inbound travel arrangements and any dietary requirements.

More about my Tuscany Wine Tour

Tuscany is possibly Italy’s most famous wine region, and it has in recent years undergone a transformation. While the Super Tuscan producers such as Sassicaia have grabbed wine lovers’ imagination with their Mediterranean expression of classic French varietals, Sangiovese, the native grape of the region, is benefitting from improvements in the vineyard and winery that have made the Chianti Classico region one of the most exciting in the world.

Famed for its red wines, Tuscany today has a growing reputation for white wines of great finesse, and our visits will allow us to explore a wide range of styles, and discover what drives the differences between the wines of this surprisingly varied region.

Its original wine producing regions were designated by the Medicis, but in the 19th Century it was Baron Bettino Ricasoli who drove the pre-eminence of Sangiovese, mandating it should be the dominant constituent of wines from Chianti (though also that it should be ‘softened’ with white varieties, a stipulation that remained an appellation requirement until the 1970s).

Today the focus is on ensuing the best grapes make the best wine. Huge effort has gone into identifying clones of Sangiovese and that have wonderful fruit expression and ripe tannins, and in the Chianti Classico region there has been extensive replanting and the introduction of top viticultural practices, producing wines of great elegance and ageing potential.

But Tuscany is not just about Chianti and Sangiovese, the Bolgheri DOC in Maremma is home to the Super Tuscan wines developed in the 1960s, using international varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. There is now even a Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC!

However, Sangiovese remains Tuscany’s most iconic variety, and our visits to the regions to the south of Chianti, Montalcino and Montepulciano, will reveal a very different expression of Sangiovese wines, with significantly greater use of oak ageing, resulting in powerful but super smooth wines capable of long ageing.

White wines made from international varieties such as Chardonnay are made alongside Super Tuscan reds, and in San Gimignano the Vernaccia grape variety produces some very high quality wines of great freshness and complexity.

And of course we will be enjoying Vin Santo, the glorious sweet wine made from dried grapes, a perfect complement to the delicious desserts of the region such as castagnaccio (chestnut flour cake) and panforte.

Tucan gastronomy is of course delicious, but the key is simplicity. The freshest produce and local breeds of meat combine to make light salads, hearty stews, and pasta dishes. The olive oil, is, of course, superb.

Most importantly we will enjoy Tuscan hospitality, whether eating at a top restaurant in Siena, enjoying a food pairing tasting at a winery or even a simple spread in an orchard, sampling freshly picked fruits and the local olive oil.

We are staying in Siena, one of the most historic cities of Italy, a major banking hub since the 13th centuries (the Monte dei Paschi bank of more recent fame is based in Siena), and home to superb architecture and artworks.

Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where the Palio horse race still runs in the Piazza del Campo (not during our tours), Siena is a wonderful place to stroll around, with endless opportunities to admire the views, and to enjoy the atmosphere while sipping a glass of wine.

More about Tim Syrad Wine Tours

Since 1997 I have escorted over 150 groups of people on wine tours, visiting more than 40 wine regions in Europe and the New World. My clients keep coming back year after year because in addition to tastings and visits we really do meet the people who make the wine and tend the vines.

I pride myself in offering tours that are informative, imaginative and enjoyable. I keep group sizes manageable so that we spend our time appreciating our visits, not getting on and off the bus or queuing for the loos! I personally escort all of my tours, and I ensure as much as possible of the money my clients pay is spent on great food and wine, and good hotels. I believe you can combine appreciating fabulous wine with relaxation and laughter, which is why so many of my clients come on tour with me every year. More than 100 people have come on at least 10 of my tours.

There is a friendly and welcoming atmosphere on every tour from the start, and I am proud that many friendships have been made between the people who come on tour with me.

For more information about me, my next tours, and previous tours I have run, and to find out what my clients say (some of whom have been coming on tour with me since 2001) please explore the website.

For more information about this tour, or to book a place, please contact me
By phone (020 7060 4529)
Or email (tim@timsyradwinetours.com)
Or use the online enquiry form on the Contact page