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Wine Tasting in Benevento

Guess who our tour guide was?!

Aldo!! yay! We were so happy to see him. He must be the only tour guide though the Navy because he was on all the tours we did. Fantastic! It was such a beautiful day to be at a vineyard. It rained yesterday so today was just perfect. Since Aldo seems to know all of Italy, we got to meet a lot of people and they took really good care of us and were super excited that we were there. Everyone we met spoke Italian so Aldo had to translate but they were all super patient and nice, unlike some people in Pozzuoli where they just don't want to deal with Americans.






We got to try the grapes straight off the vines and they were so delicious! They are all organic at this vineyard and don't use any chemicals at all so it was safe to eat the grapes as is. Its against the law for them to use chemicals on their plants, which is good.








11 bottles of wine...After the 3rd I started just tasting it and dumping the rest out, theres no way I could have had a glass of each of these and still be awake for the rest of the tour. The wine tastings I've been to, you get a little sip of the wine to taste pretty much. Here, you got about half a glass and then some. They love giving when it comes to food and wine here in Italy. They also had homemade bread and pretzel crackers. The bread was fantastic! Kyle wanted to just eat that all day!


Also, they fed us. Seriously so much food. This pasta would have been fine for me, but no. That was just the first course. After came potatoes, vegetables, sausage and chicken. Seriously, Italians know how to eat! We were so full after and so ready to take a nap! Aldo said that when he was looking for a winery that the Navy tour company could use to tour with, he made a deal with this one where they could have us come and they would provide wine and home made food. It was fantastic, the food was so delicious!


We fell asleep so fast on the bus ride home. It had been an early morning and we just drank and ate our way though our afternoon. I wanted to go shopping in downtown so after we got back home we figured out how to take the metro down there, that was an experience. Seeing how Italy does everything they want when they want, our train was close to 15 minutes late. Which was fine for us because we weren't in a rush but Kyle did mention its a reason he doesn't take it to work because having to count on them to be on time is impossible. 


Mt. Vesuvius and the bay. We went into downtown Naples tonight to go shopping. Its super sketchy down there I guess. I probably wouldn't have ventured down there alone but with Kyle I felt fine. I also am pretty oblivious to whats going on when I'm with him because I don't feel like I need to be alert 100% about everything. It was nice I got to just window shop instead of people watch for once. Italy was celebrating San Gennaro tonight and we were trying to walk back to the metro and all of a sudden hundreds and hundreds of people were coming down the streets straight toward us, all singing in unison. We had no idea what it was for at first and though we could just wait it out, but no there were way too many people we just had to be salmon and swim upstream through them. They were all walking down the street together towards the Duomo where they had all these chairs set up for this celebration. It was crazy trying to walk through them, and we had shopping bags too so that made it even more difficult. We ate dinner at some Pizza place in Naples, and Kyle finally found out that the place downstairs, Frescas, isn't the best pizza in all of Italy like he thought. It was a good full day a good closer to a full 3 weeks of Italy!



♥ Mae

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Location: Benevento, Province of Benevento, Italy

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