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The grape harvest in Tuscany, la vendemmia, runs through September and October. Here’s when it starts near Florence, which Chianti festival falls the same week, and how to watch real harvest work instead of a staged tourist show.

Skip the scorching Chianti strade bianche. La Leonessa gravel climbs into the shaded forest roads of Vallombrosa and Pratomagno, with a village swimming hole waiting at the finish, for a genuinely cool summer ride in Tuscany.