Tuscany Wine Tours from Rome

The Tour Guy’s Tuscany Day Trip with Vineyard Lunch and Wine Tasting has the lowest price of the shared Tuscany days on this site: from $101 per person for 11 hours, rated 4.7 from 174 GetYourGuide reviews. Read the option name before you pay. The bookable option is Pienza and Civita di Bagnoregio: an hour and a half in Civita, which is in Lazio, a winery lunch near Montepulciano with three wines, then an hour in Pienza. You do not walk through Montepulciano itself.

If the town of Montepulciano matters more to you, City Wonders’ Tuscany & Montepulciano Day Trip with Lunch & Wines is the most-reviewed tour on this site, 4.7 from 3,480 GetYourGuide reviews, from $131 per person. Prices were checked in October 2026 for a real date.

Every Tuscany day here is long. The coaches leave Piazza del Popolo or Piazzale Flaminio early, the itineraries list about 5 to 7 hours of coach time, and you are back in Rome 11 to 12 hours after you left.

Quick picks for a Tuscany wine day

• Lowest price, with Civita added: the Pienza and Civita day, from $101, Civita entry and shuttle included.
• Montepulciano and Pienza, with Brunello at lunch: the City Wonders Montepulciano day, from $131.
• Montepulciano and Montalcino: VEDITALIA’s Tuscany, Montepulciano Tour with Wine & Lunch, from $121, Vino Nobile and Rosso di Montalcino with a sommelier.
• Longest stop in Montepulciano: MORANDITOUR’s Montepulciano and Montalcino, on the Wine Routes, from $121, 2.5 hours in town, with only 14 reviews so far.
• A car of your own: the Private Tuscany day with Pienza and Val d’Orcia views, from $432 per person when two travel, hotel pickup, lunch at your own cost.
• A Tuscan lunch and Orvieto in one day: City Wonders’ 3 Regions Day Trip, from $122, five wines including Brunello.

How long a Tuscany day from Rome takes

By road and without traffic, Montepulciano is about 177 km from Roma Termini, roughly 2 hours 15 minutes. Pienza is about 188 km away and Montalcino about 204 km, close to 3 hours. The coach itineraries allow about 2 to 3 hours for each leg, coffee stop included.

On the City Wonders Montepulciano day, the two long legs alone come to 5.5 hours. In return you get 85 minutes of guided walk and free time in Montepulciano, 30 minutes at the church of San Biagio, an hour and a half for lunch and the tasting, and an hour in Pienza.

Siena is about 229 km from Termini and Greve in Chianti about 266 km, nearly 3.5 hours each way by road. None of the tours on this site goes to Chianti, and neither Chianti nor Siena fits into half a day from Rome. For wine without the long drive, Frascati is 30 minutes by train: see Frascati wine tours from Rome, or weigh the two in Frascati or Tuscany.

The Pienza and Civita di Bagnoregio day

The Tour Guy sells this listing as a Tuscany day trip, and the option to book is called Pienza & Civita di Bagnoregio with Lunch & Wine. You meet staff in red holding a red sign at Piazzale Flaminio 20, a short walk from Flaminio metro, 15 minutes before departure.

About 2 hours by coach brings you to Civita di Bagnoregio, a village on volcanic cliffs in northern Lazio that you enter on a 300-metre pedestrian bridge. The price covers the shuttle and the €5 entry ticket, and you have 1.5 hours to explore on your own. The bridge path dips gently, then climbs steeply to the village gate. Lunch is at a family-run winery near Montepulciano: pecorino and cured meats, handmade pici with aglione sauce, three wines, then cantucci and Vin Santo. Pienza closes the day with an hour of free time.

Some reviewers found the tasting room loud and rushed, and on one stormy day the group could not cross the bridge and waited in a café. The tour is not wheelchair accessible. Our breakdown of the Pienza and Civita day has the full itinerary.

Montepulciano and Pienza with City Wonders

You meet in the centre of Piazza del Popolo by the fountain with the lions and the obelisk. One reviewer mentions a 7:30 start; check your voucher. After the walk in Montepulciano and the stop at San Biagio, you sit down to a three-course lunch at a farm and winery with a guided tasting that includes Brunello di Montalcino. Brunello comes from Montalcino, so expect it as one of the wines poured, not the winery’s own. Pienza, known for its pecorino, follows.

The Small Group and Private options add a wine and olive oil tasting at Montalcino Castle, and only the Private option adds hotel pickup. A few reviewers found the lunch and the pours small, and the tasting crowded. Infants do not get their own seat on the coach. More in our City Wonders breakdown.

Montepulciano and Montalcino

VEDITALIA’s Montepulciano and Montalcino day (4.6 from 259 reviews) leaves from the Leonardo da Vinci Museum next to Santa Maria del Popolo. You get 1.5 hours in Montepulciano, then lunch in a former friars’ refectory and a tasting of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Rosso di Montalcino with a sommelier, in a winery dating from the 1200s that holds an Etruscan tomb. Montalcino follows for 1.5 hours; a tasting there and the Temple of Brunello museum ticket cost extra. Departures are guided in Spanish and English, and some reviewers found the constant switching tiring.

MORANDITOUR’s Wine Routes day uses the same meeting spot, gives you 2.5 hours in Montepulciano plus an hour’s tasting, and pours two glasses, a Montepulciano red and a Vino Nobile, with a lunch of cold cuts, cheese and pici al ragù. It holds 4.7 from only 14 reviews and does not take children under 8. Our Montepulciano wine tours page compares the time each tour gives you in town.

A private day in Tuscany

The private Tuscany day from Eternal City private and guided Tours collects you at your hotel in a Mercedes sedan or minivan with a driver-guide. You spend about 2 hours on the road each way, 2.5 hours in Montepulciano with a wine tasting and a visit to part of the town’s underground city, and 2.5 hours in Pienza with photo stops in the Val d’Orcia. Lunch and entrance fees are extra. It holds 4.8 from 39 reviews. A few reviewers got a driver with little English and no vineyard stop, so confirm the language and the winery visit with the operator before your date.

The Tuscan reds you will taste

Both wines on these tours start from Sangiovese. Brunello di Montalcino is 100% Sangiovese from the Montalcino area and cannot be released before 1 January of the fifth year after the harvest. Rosso di Montalcino is its younger sibling, released from 1 September of the year after harvest. Vino Nobile di Montepulciano needs at least 70% Sangiovese and two years of ageing, and it must be made and aged within the commune of Montepulciano. Both became DOCGs in 1980, among Italy’s first.

Before you book

• Walking: the hill towns are steep and cobbled, and none of these tours suits wheelchair users.
• Food: tell the operator about allergies when you book; The Tour Guy offers a vegetarian lunch with advance notice.
• Language: VEDITALIA and MORANDITOUR guide in English and Spanish; the others list English.
• Weather: MORANDITOUR runs in all weather, and layers help between Rome and the hilltops.

Set the three main options side by side in the comparison table, then check availability for your exact date, because prices and seats change.