First of all, Montepulciano is the perfect place to stay. It is charming, not too busy, not too big nor too small, lots of excellent yet reasonable restaurants, friendly people, easy to get to other hilltop towns, wine tasting, cheese tasting, etc. And the Politian Apartments is THE place to stay. We were in the Green Tea Apt. for 2 weeks and hated to leave. All the previous reviews have extolled the wonderful apartments, the garden, the location, and caring and kind attention of the owners Giacomo and Maria and we can not thank them enough for all they did for us. So to mention something new, a nice feature of Green Tea is a lovely private terrace with table and chairs overlooking the gardens, and we made good use of it even in October. On Giacomo's recommendation, we hired Andrea Renieri for many full and half day private tours of Tuscany including many tastings and meals as well as sightseeing. He was so knowledgeable, interesting, and just plain fun that we hated to leave him too. All in all our stay here so far exceeded our expectations, and even our dreams of the perfect Tuscany, that I don't have the proper words to express it...which is quite unusual! And at such a reasonable price, we are only sorry we didn't stay a month.