Wines and Olive Oil trails of Lucca

Lucca is surrounded by a marvellous natural landscape rich in beautiful hills, ancient villas,ctone parish churches, centuries-old olive groves and vineyards. The soil rich in minerals, the centuries old family traditions, the natural amphitheatre of terraces, all those things put together help to create  unique and distinctive wines and olive oils of noble and flavorful character . A mild climate, given by the surrounding heights protecting from the northern cold, contributes to the creation of a a strong wine with high sugar content and intense bouquets. This is the land where the DOC wines “Colline Lucchesi” and “Montecarlo” are produced. So, Lucca countryside is the ideal area for an uncommon wine tour, visiting small farms producing wine and excellent extra virgin olive oil, where you can be surprised in seeing some horses, ponies or sweet donkeys taking care of the natural fertilization and weeding of the olive groves and of the vineyards. The Colline Lucchesi wine road includes small almost unknown hilltop villages as Matraia, S.Gennaro, Petrognano up to Montecarlo and the hills of Porcari and Altopascio.