Florence sponsored a celebration of Tuscan vino all weekend. For 10 euros, you got a commemorative glass and a punchcard for 12 tastes of "basic" and "riserva" wine at a handful of sites around town (Piazza Pitti, above, was the busiest).
We learned quickly to ask for the 3-year-old riserva.
A friend from Zion in town for a few days said, "This would be so popular in Utah." Then, he thought better of it: "But this would never happen in Utah."
In Utahn, Oltrarno, the neighborhood south of the river, was one big wine garden. To be fair, they stopped pouring at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. on Sunday) But the restaurants picked up where the vineyard owners left off.
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