Too much Wine-ing for me!!!

Today we awoke to another bright sunny Italian sky and had another great breakfast at our hotel. Then 16 of us boarded a bus with our tour guide Rebecca for our wine tasting tour of the wine region of Treviso with its making of Prosecco wine, the number one manufacturer of this type of wine in the world. The first vineyard we visited was the Villa Sandi. It was an absolutely gorgeous restored villa with accompanying vineyards and production facility. We toured the stored bottles in the tunnels below the villa that were orginally excavated under the home so the Italian soldiers during the war could safely move underground to the river without being shot by the Germans. In fact, it was a double decker system of tunnels which had been filled in with dirt and then unearthed and completely restored to aide in this company's wine production. We had lunch in the quaint historic town of Conegliano where I had the experience of going to a public toilet. Let me tell you I now know the reason why Italian women wear dresses. You have to squat and bend down to urinate over a hole in the ground. How gross!!!!

Then cousin Nancy and I hiked up to the Castellona (an old castle) for a beautiful view of the area and then the bus took our group to our second wine stop at the Case Bianche (white houses). There we were able to see the entire automated production of prosecco wine. It was fascinating to realize that there was very little manual labor except for actual picking of the grapes and the wine master's daily and constant evaluations of the wine from the autoclaves (big giant cooled stainless steel vats).

Tonight we stayed at the hotel and walked into town to the best pizzeria place I have ever been to named Mydo at Via Venezia 74 in Scorze. There was every different kind of pizza imaginable. Drew had one with everything on it which included a raw egg on top. Joey had a large vienna sausage pizza , and my pizza was called Romantica which was tomatoes, mozzarella, asperagus, gorgonzola and zucchini. Nancy was not brave and just had a plain cheese pizza.