Florence – Eccellenza di Toscana

Since 2000, Eccellenza di Toscana has been the Italian Sommelier Association of Tuscany’s event that highlights and enhances the region’s wine quality.

Eccellenza di Toscana returns to the spotlight on March 8 and 9, 2025 at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence. The format will feature more than 150 wineries presenting more than 900 labels at tasting tables, conferences, workshops, guided tastings and master classes.

The event

At the heart of the event are tastings at tasting tables offered by individual producers. Each visitor can discover them independently or through AIS Tours led by professional sommeliers for small groups.

Also remaining staples of the Eccellenza di Toscana program are the wine, oil and beer tasting pills with the AIS Wine Schools, AIS Oil Schools and AIS Beer Schools. Also added to this edition is the collaboration with ANAG for guided distillate tastings and with Catinari for a series of Chocolate Schools with artisanal chocolate tasting.

Both days of the event will be accompanied by “excellent” Masterclasses. One Masterclass will be in collaboration with the Women of Wine, to emphasize-just in conjunction with Women’s Day-the importance of their role in the world of wine at multiple levels. In fact, the Association welcomes 118 members, including producers, sommeliers, journalists, bloggers and influencers who have brought with their professionalism an added value in the communication of wine culture.

The highlight of the first day will be the presentation of the new wine guide “Eccellenza di Toscana,” where the best AIS sommeliers tell the story of wine Tuscany in an unprecedented way, through more than 2100 wines reviewed and ranked according to a numerical score in hundredths, more than 450 wineries complete with information on catering, hospitality, wine experience and tastings. A guide that represents a unicum of its kind; in the form of individual cards it collects the analysis, review and evaluation of the wines of each winery, accompanied by the image of the most significant label of each winery.

On the second day, the spotlight will turn instead to the presentation of an “excellent” reality of the Tuscan territory such as Sparla&Gerardi, which will tell about its experience between sweet Tuscan wines and French bubbles.

Useful information

Public entrance on the two days from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

On the event’s official page, however, you can find the detailed program, a list of participating wineries and all the necessary information.

Tickets can be purchased online at the ticketone link.