Radda - in Tuscany wine area

We booked this lovely little apartment in Radda, in the Chianti wine area.  Chianti is a type of wine that is produced in Tuscany.  It has a lovely merlot, soft taste.  The place we were staying was owned by an elderly couple, who worked their little about an acre of land.  They were pretty self suffient with their vegetables, olives and grapes for wine.

We asked a wine seller in town about the couple and he said they probably had the vines to produce their own wine.  Couldn't believe that wine is so important to just produce for themselves. 

This is a view from our little kitchen window.  The town Radda was a picture perfect little Tuscany town that one sees in postcards.


Our hosts grape vines.