Wine Tastings

In the Social Media and Marketing study abroad program, part of our curriculum was going to Tuscan wineries to meet the owners and have wine tastings. Normally we would tour the cellars and see the facility and then head to a wine tasting. It was such an honor to meet the owners and have them personally show us around their home and winery. Each winery we visited was assigned to a group and we made a social media and marketing plan for them. This applicable, hands on experience was one of my favorite projects in college. On the last day of our program, we went to present our plans to our winery and the other five wineries.

This was our first wine tasting at the Enoteca Italiana winery, which was located in Siena.

This is some of the prosciutto, cheese, and bruschetta they gave us to eat. It was delicious and a great paring for the wine they gave us.

First red wine is served and then the white wine. White wine must be served cold!

This was the Montecchio Winery!

They had a beautiful estate and amazing wine!

This is Jasmine and I at the winery! She was assigned this winery for her social media and marketing plan!

This was a photo of our whole class and our professors!

This was the beautiful Villa Trasqua Winery! They had a pool on site!

I loved their white wine!

The next tasting we went to was the Col D’Orcia Winery!

This is me laughing at the fact that wine tasting is my new favorite thing. While we were there it starting dumping rain.

This was my favorite winery and the one my group made the marketing plan for! San Gervasio!

I loved visiting the estate and meeting the owners. San Gervaiso is an organic winery and ran by Luca and Lisa. They export 80% of their wines and were great host to us.