Cycling on the White Roads of Tuscany

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[Music] [Music] is the Italian word for it but we used to Sayan because in summertime they they are really bright they’re really white color mainly because they dry out it’s it’s beautiful the white roads yeah the white roads they really design the landcape over here and it’s a typical characteristic of this area they are under protection so you cannot pave them we have more than thousand kilometers in the province of sien of white roads Stan which you are not able to PVE it’s good to be back it’s been a little while I’m sure the crowd want me back so here I am [Music] Ino Bingo like the game Bingo without a be it’s easy to reminder and definitely I’m not tasing you can see or hear it from the accent probably but I live here since a long while so I’m becoming more tuskan than anything else I’m in Tuscany I’m Wrecking a route on the Strada bian the white roads [Music] what is the landscape like in Tuscany Rolling Hills food is good food is really good easy I mean the tuskan kitchen is really simple we don’t have really much cooked stuff uh we have of course white board white animals so rabbit or so but definitely more traditional is the rolita soup the bean soup we have the tayata the tone steak slices cut it in slices Pichi cash peer Pichi are thick spaghetti handmade spaghetti uh with cheese and pepper picino cheese the Sheep cheese really good and do you have pizza in of course we have pizza even if Pizza is not that famous in taskan because the our pizza is coming from Naples mainly but Pizza is definitely good here as well my wife make a really good pizza yes the really nice thing is that we left or we are leaving behind us now the montolo ca which is covered mainly by woods and the landscape now is changing completely because we come into that what we call cresi the Terra Diana is a color a typical color of this cresi it’s also the name of a color they use in art for for paint or so and it’s really nice because these are this Rolling Hills the typical Rolling Hills uh riding them it’s tough because these Rolling Hills they are also steep often so it’s not uh they are not big climbs but many small hills Thea is a route starting from ginanti ending up in or going up to monino it’s like a circle route like an eight and it’s 80% on gravel roads you have something like 4 ,000 plus uh meter of climbing but you’re supposed to do it with all the racing bikes so not with gravel bikes and not with new racing bikes the get all the racing bikes which have the gear set on the frame still the brakes are really poor and no gear set and two BL to the organizer of the AOA he contacted the gazet sport the organization of the Jala and uh they organized it race on part of the route of the aroa and that’s that later on became the stran route in the meanwhile the SC bian is a world tour place and so the professional teams who want to do the to the fans they need to do Allan it is really popular between the the Riders and profy Riders because in that race the team cannot help you much you’re alone so a great Rider is going to win today we’re riding day two of the Glorious gravel here in Tuscany from Sienna to panzano we’re riding in the region of quanti classical is that is that pronunciation spot on perect I’m basically Italian [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Pano alaa it’s a salami uh really uh not much work with fennel inside M to b b [Music] [Applause] Castell de bro the importance of the castle from where you could easily control all the southern area to Sienna you can see it here in the distance monata Chona it’s owned by the family of ricaz ricaz has been our second prime minister in the Republic of Si of Italy and he was so powerful that we had our second capital in Florence by the way he was also the guy who wrot the roots of our wine the kanteti wine uh saying that the sanes is the grape which over here give the best wine so we had San canolo colino in smaller uh percentage and myia and Triano biano this was Raz the owner of the family and the family still own the the castle they’re not living here anymore of course but it’s a museum today you can visit it the view is [Music] standing Castello is our signature wine it’s a wine which is producing in the best years only picking the best graes and underneath the castle so the best Vineyards underneath the castle are done are made to produce this wine uh it’s a grand which in means to wines and uh it’s 100% sanes from the Harvest 20 like the Reser but of course it has much more body more intensity it’s richer it’s longer a grand should be like that okay and uh this is the most representative among our grand sele we produce four grand sele the crew of San so single V San and the C which is our Signature One it makes a longer aging 22 months in French O 12 months minimum in the bottle and even if he still young it has a lot of potential all the San needs a time in the bottle to develop it’s the smil and if you open it that’s why you turn it in the glass the the wine get the air and you the the smell is developed in the glass so and here you have a really fruity smell because it’s a young wine we’re now on to the the second wine I’m I’m I’m I don’t drink so um I’m getting drunk here it’s definitely much stronger wine here we go inove 15% probably oh I can smell it it’s much more permanent even the the smell is more intensive it’s longer we’ll have a nice descent even if it’s uphill come to Tuscany the wine the coffee it’s like Rocket Fuel the legs feel good the sun is shining yeah just enjoying the Italian gravel and scenery [Music] [Music] [Music] he liked the barber he like to care take care of the barber and those things that’s why we have the barber shop he still he still does yeah yeah they do it during the heroa days the prazo which is a brand of The Barbers they rent the the room here beside and they do the barers but all what you can see here inside is part of his his life what he collected what he found it’s all recycled stuff it’s not boat or or somehow even the the the BS that he has he renew them it’s not it’s just stuff that he they were throating way and he just so it’s it’s part of [Music] him I’m hey Josh how you doing good nice mustache thank you very much what are you doing in t me what am I doing I’m working Josh what are you doing here amazing very nice hang is it nice being on a Flor batt video again it is it’s good to be back it’s been a little while I’m all the crowd want me back so here I am what flavor did you go for chocolate and um flavor of the TS which is with butter and the yogurt and there are some herbs inside really really good to it without an ice cream no how fast do you need to go it’s average like 2 hours I should be fine going to be late for dinner no no we good [Music] I’m currently riding up the last climb of the strata Bianca up into the finish of Sienna and it’s a lot steeper than it looks on [Music] TV we have two towers over here coming out the one in front of us is the T manga the one in the background is the Tower of the DM of the cathedral the question is which one is the higher Tower