Top San Gimignano Classes & Workshops - page 2

Prepare a traditional Tuscan meal from scratch at a private San Gimignano cooking class. You’ll join a local cook for a trip to the historic city’s food shops and market, then roll up your sleeves to make a 3-course lunch or dinner in their home kitchen. When the meal is prepared, enjoy a delicious feast paired with red and white wines sourced from the local area.

Cooking Classes at Casa Emma represent a very unique food and wine experience, perfect if you want to learn more about traditional Tuscan cuisine and food and wine pairing. As soon as you arrive, you will be welcomed by a wine expert who will follow you during the whole experience, starting from a tour in the cellar, where you can learn more about the company philosophy and the winemaking. Then, you will meet our Chef (English speaking) who will guide you through the different stages of the food preparation, by using only Tuscan raw materials. The recipes selected by our Chef include: pasta (ravioli, tagliatelle…), Pizza Margherita and a dessert, but we are ready and open to meet every request! Just before eating, our wine expert will explain to you all the products made in the farmhouse: our extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and 5 different types of wine to pair with food. The minimum number of participants for this experience is 2 people, up to 10.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS • Sit down to taste everything you created along with wine tasting from the library vintage reserves • Learn from a passionate local chef to create a delicious Tuscan Feast • Take home recipes and knowledge that will let you replicate your authentic Italian meal experience at home - Experience the art and culture of Tuscan cooking and prepare a delicious Tuscan meal with highly experienced local chefs. Later, sit down at the table to enjoy a complete dinner, complete with a wine tasting school and tastings of many local products.

Learn how to make some of Italy’s most famous desserts during this 2-hour cooking class. Follow your instructor’s directions to create delectable sweets such as chocolate biscuits, tiramisu, and pannacotta. Then, sit down to a delicious 3-course dinner, with the treats you’ve made and a tasting of a variety of wines, olive oils, and vinegars.

Spending a fantastic evening in San Gimignano is easy. But we want to give you more: the chance to have an aperitiv in the amazing UNESCO heritage Chigi Tower. We will serve you appetizers and delicious tuscan wine that we produce, in front of an enchanting panorama. You can keep a memory of this special evening thank to our professional photographer who will take a photoshoot for you.

Get out of the city for the day and get to know Tuscan cuisine a little better with this cooking class on a historic south Florence estate. Learn the secrets of finding, preparing, and creating meals with the region’s native truffles in a class with your private guide, a professional chef. Make your own meal with these luxurious and rare ingredients, then sample some of the sumptuous vintage wines produced at this sprawling vineyard estate.

During this hands on lesson, we will share some traditional recipes we always seen in our families. Antipasti with a varietal of bruschette and cheese, meat ragù, handmade pasta (tagliatelle, gnocchi and more) and tiramisù are the dishes we'll prepare and eat together. Our cooking classes start at 10 am from Tuesday to Friday and last four/five hours.

We will pick you up from the Livorno sea Port around 08.00am we will visit Siena and San Gimignano best sites

This experience is a full immersion in the wine and Evo oil world, the focus is not the food but what we produce with so much passion. Relax in our garden watching the city of San Gimignano from an amazing perspective, taste our organic wines and olive oils paired with some homemade simple snacks.

Craving pasta? Join our family for a 3-hour cooking experience in a typical Tuscan kitchen that overlooks our vineyards and olive trees. You’re going to learn how to make fresh pasta from scratch and all secrets to make it “al dente”. An exclusive cooking class dedicated to pasta surrounded by the wine and extra virgin olive oil aromas. This experience is a real journey in Tuscan flavors made of simple and fresh ingredients. Besides the cooking experience, you will have the chance to have a real wine tasting with at least four of our organic wines. Morning or afternoon start time is available. Join us! What are you waiting for?

With this experience, we decided to give importance to all aspects of wine. Balsamic vinegar is one of its derivatives and, it is produced with the grape must (freshly crushed grape juice with all the skins, seeds, and stems). Sitting and relaxing in a magical and warm atmosphere you'll get the chance to experience this precious product, understand how to use it in different dishes and learn how it's produced. Everything will be also matched with the tasting of our organic wines and extra-virgin olive oils.

Enjoy a private vineyard tour with organic wines and extra virgin olive oil tasting and light lunch. Be fully immersed in a real Tuscan farm surrounded by the Tuscan countryside.

Immerse yourself in a real Tuscan farmstead, starting with a private visit to the vineyard and olive grove, ending with a tasting of four organic wines, straight from the winery's own vineyards, plus our extra virgin olive oils. The tasting will be accompanied by bruschetta and local cheeses.

Enjoy a real truffle based meal paired with the delicate taste of our wines. Try this particular and precious mushroom on different dishes and learn a little bit more about it.

Enjoy a unique experience in this fabulous Tuscan setting. Our family is ready to welcome you to our little winery to delight your palate with our organic products. Take a break in a family farm surrounded by the flavors of the Tuscan products. Dive into the green shades of our vineyard and olive groves with a private and exclusive tour of the Tuscan countryside. During the tasting, a member of our family will guide you through a real Tuscan experience, with tasty dishes based on Saffron, a typical product of San Gimignano. Enjoy a full wine tasting and olive oil tasting in a rustic farm that overlooks the green Tuscan hills. All our organic wines and olive oils come straight from the winery’s own vineyards and olive trees.

Craving pasta? Or bruschetta? Join our family for a 3-hour cooking experience in a typical Tuscan kitchen that overlooks our vineyards and olive trees. You’re going to learn all the Tuscan cuisine secrets surrounded by the wine and extra virgin olive oil aromas. This experience is a real journey in Tuscan flavors made of simple and fresh ingredients. Besides the cooking experience, you will have the chance to have a real wine tasting with at least four of our organic wines. Join us! What are you waiting for?

Enjoy and exclusive and private wine-tasting, with the tour of our vineyard and olive grove in a special and warm atmosphere. Get to know our Family and our passion for wine and olive oil.

Craving pizza? Or gelato? Let’s have both! Join our family for a 3-hour cooking experience in a typical Tuscan kitchen that overlooks our vineyards and olive trees. You’re going to learn how to make pizza from scratch and how to make the authentic Italian gelato! A fun cooking experience for everyone surrounded by the wine and olive oil aromas. Besides the cooking experience, you will have the chance to have a real wine tasting with at least four of our organic wines and you will taste all the different olive oil flavors. Morning or afternoon start time is available. Join us! What are you waiting for?

Want an Elite Experience? The Truffle Cooking Class will start with a tour of our vineyard and olive groves; following a member of the family will briefly introduce you few notions about truffles. During the experience, Guests will learn the secrets of truffles, how to clean them and different ways to cook them. We will start with the preparation of antipasti, a delicious Bruschetta with Lardo di Colonnata and slices of truffle, a first dish composed by the preparation of Tuscan Pasta “Pici”, a second course that will include the preparation of filet with truffle slices and balsamic glaze flavored with truffle, and of course a tasty dessert. Our Chef and a member of the family will guide you through this amazing gourmet experience. At the end of the morning in the kitchen, you will relax in one of our private and exclusive rooms while tasting all the things that you’ve cooked paired with our organic wines and e.v.o. olive oils.

A few steps from San Gimignano, there is a splendid family-run winery. Here you can taste the typical Tuscan products: starting from the wine up to tasty local croutons. You will visit the cellar, the vineyards and all the places where wine comes to life. You will listen to stories, curiosities and you will learn the winemaking processes that make Tuscany and Chianti areas to be protected and loved. You will discover the secrets of wine and grapes, as well as the best combinations with strictly typical foods. Do not miss the opportunity to learn how to combine Tuscan wine with appetizing foods and find out how wines are produced in a real cellar. You can choose between two unique experiences: Tasting of 3 wines accompanied by snacks of typical products preceded by a tour of cellars and vines Lunch and tasting of 4 wines preceded by a tour of the cellar and the vines

Our San Gimignano tour includes: - Delivery of your Vespa (125cc, automatic gears) at hotel Villa Ducci. - Technical and informative briefing. - Half day guided driving. - A stop in Monteriggioni where you can relax, stretch and visit the town. - Aperitif at hotel Villa Ducci when finished. Kalitumba Tours offers you to see Tuscany through the eyes of a real local on a Vespa. Experience the Italian lifestyle in a unique way and enjoy 'La Dolce Vita Italiana'. We have selected the most scenic and calm routes for you to ride, and suggest the cosiest and qualitative restaurants to enjoy. After the tour you can taste an Italian aperitivo; the famous 'Vernaccia di San Gimignano'. This will be offered by us to wind down and relax after your Tuscan Vespa tour at hotel Villa Ducci, which will be the point of departure and return.

Our San Gimignano tour includes: - Delivery of your Vespa (125cc, automatic gears) at hotel Villa Ducci - Technical and informative briefing. - Half day guided driving. - A stop in Monteriggioni where you can relax, stretch and visit the town. - Aperitif at hotel Villa Ducci when tour finished. Kalitumba Tours offers you to see Tuscany through the eyes of a real local on a Vespa. Experience the Italian lifestyle in a unique way and enjoy 'La Dolce Vita Italiana'. We have selected the most scenic and calm routes for you to ride, and suggest the most cosy and qualitative restaurants to enjoy. After the tour you can taste an Italian aperitivo; the famous 'Vernaccia di San Gimignano'. This will be offered by us to wind down and relax after your Tuscan Vespa tour at hotel Villa Ducci, which will be the point of departure and return.

The Cesani family and our staff are pleased to welcome you to Pancole, just 5km from the historic center of San Gimignano, where you will have the opportunity to sit and taste the company products presented with skill and passion, and thus have the opportunity to to know the history, the production process and the organoleptic characteristics of all the productions that the Cesani family offers. The tasting includes 5 wines of our production (2 Vernaccia di San Gimignano and 3 Red Wines) and our extra-virgin olive oil. A taste of pecorino cheese and other traditional goodies will accompany the presented wine. The guided tour of the modern and rational winery will allow you to discover that tradition and technology are an inseparable combination for the production of great wines from organic grapes. Simplicity and professionalism are fundamental characteristics to obtain products of the highest quality.

Enjoy a smooth and relaxing transfer in our modern and comfortable vehicles and with our professional drivers, between the international airport of Fiumicino and San Gimignano, an Italian hill town in Tuscany, southwest of Florence. Encircled by 13th-century walls, its old town centers on Piazza della Cisterna, a triangular square lined with medieval houses. It has a skyline of medieval towers, including the stone Torre Grossa. For the airport transfers we will track your flight so that you won't have to wait for the driver. Our team will follow your transfer till you meet your destination, to guarantee you an unforgettable traveling experience.