5-star winery in flight and on the ground
Icarus Private Jet launches luxury wine collaboration with Torciano Winery.
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Many thanks to Icarus Jet for this amazing article about us and our wine event in Foxworth, Dallas (TX).
Luxury private jet and Luxury Wine out of Tuscany, Italy
It is a sweetheart of a deal. A sundrenched winery in Tuscany, A 700-year-old village of San Gimignano. Cobblestones, Cathedrals, Castles and rolling hills with the golden hue from the crops as one drive from Florence to San Gimignano. Torciano is a 300-year-old Winery founded by the Giachi Family. Bartelomeo Giachi had left Florence in 1720 and settled in the nutrients fertile soils of San Gimignano. Today, the Giachi family continues the tradition of Winemaking. To say that the Giachis have taken their trade to another level is unfair. There are no levels to one’s passion that’s a family tradition from Bartolomeo to Pierluigi Giachi to Emanuele Giachi. The culture to passionately produce Wine from the soil to the bottle is an art form, an art form that needs to be experienced at the Torciano winery itself. Let’s anoint this new friendship and launch of a brand partnership.
Private Aircraft-Luxury Cars and a handsome Wine Sommelier from Tuscany
When Lillo first walked into the offices of Icarus Jet at Dallas, Texas. None of us had expected to be educated this thoroughly and lovingly with a great passion for how a Winery produces its best grapes, the season, soil, and the process to bottle every batch. It was a pleasant two-hour meeting which has now resulted in a lifetime friendship between the Singh family and the Giachis from Tuscany. We decided to host a small get together at the house of Kelly and George Tadros, who is our regular Jet charter client and also a close friend.
We decided to host a wine tasting event at a Private Hangar in Fort Worth Mecham field. With the help of Ms. Ann Davidson, who is a renowned humanitarian and possibly the most charitable person that I have ever met. We Invited some of the most influential people of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The wine event was held on the 27th of April at a private Hangar, and a display of three private jets and some of the most beautiful luxury cars was enabled. Alex Rivera played his smooth Jazz with the Rivera band and the evening couldn’t get any better.
Our Newest Brand Partnership – Park Place Features Its Luxury Cars
The evening of the Wine tasting event Icarus Jet charter not only strengthened its bond with Torciano Winery but also with Park Place McLaren Dallas. Mr. Hesham Elgaghil (chief strategy officer, Park Place) and Mr. Simone Crossley (brand manager, Park place) honored our luxury wine tasting event with their presence. Mr. Crossley drove in a brand new Mc Laren 720 offered for sale by Park Place Dallas. The Mc Laren 720 stole the show, and more people enquired about the McLaren than any of the Private Jets at the event.
Icarus Jet charter has had a long-lasting relationship with Park Place Dallas. We have bought and leased all our Porsche vehicles from Park place. There is no comparison to the service and prices they provide. Loyalty to a brand is always understood as we like Porsche, but the dealership consistently earns a commitment to the dealership. In the last seven years of multiple Porsche leased and bought/sold from Park Place, they have gone above and beyond from just buying and selling. We have always been made to feel like a family. From the price, delivery to maintenance Park Place has been a 5-star dealership.
The wine tasting event was a significant success, and we have decided to hold the wine tasting event every year. At Icarus Jet, we would like to thank everyone that showed up and made our event a huge success beyond our expectations.
Author
Luciana Cilemmi
Luciana Cilemmi, deals with Magazine, Style Director and Co-founder of Tenuta Torciano winery and Tenute Giachi wines and the innovative Viviarium Restaurant of Bottega Torciano- Tenuta Torciano & Winery is part of an international reality that is born in Italy by an initiative of Pierluigi Giachi and Luciana Cilemmi, who have worked for years in the Italian wine market , expanding throughout in the United States, managed and controlled by the american company ' Bellavini winery. Luciana Cilemmi was born in San Gimignano to a family of artists specialised in the restoration of medieval buildings. Having completed her technical studies, she now pursues the interests passed on to her by her family, like her passion for artistic objects, in particular works of art created in Tuscany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. But she reserves her keenest enthusiasm for the historic works completed in San Gimignano between 1100 and 1300. Alongside her love of medieval history, she is fascinated in wines produced from Tuscan vineyards, which, together with saffron and wool, were the most sought-after goods traded by the wealthy noble families of San Gimignano already in medieval times. Luciana Cilemmi left San Gimignano at the age of 21 and embarked on a pilgrimage in search of knowledge and to discover the new winemaking skills and products that were then developing both in Italy and in France. In the meantime she added to her knowledge of wine by attending specialised courses and becoming a master of wine. On returning to Siena, she discovered a wonderful area near Murlo where she fell in love with the tiny, unspoilt village of Montepescini. She bought the estate of Montepescini where, based on the experience she had acquired over the years, she found a particular lie of the land, special climatic conditions and an altitude suited to the creation of great wines. With enormous enthusiasm, doggedness and considerable effort, a reclamation programme was started to renew the terrain which was then used to plant 30 hectares of specialised vines. Sangiovese is the dominant vine, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Years of experimentation and the introduction of new winemaking techniques eventually led to the creation of Luciana di Memmi’s prestigious wines. Some years ago, Luciana Cilemmi succeeded in realising her dream of a lifetime: to return to her home town, San Gimignano. She was destined to buy the historic palace with the medieval tower, which had been owned by the prestigious Useppi family from 1200 to 1927 and had then passed to the noble and historic Chigi family of Siena. The Useppi were a powerful Sienese family who owned several castles. This beautiful medieval building has an elegant and distinctive façade full of Sienese and Pisan architectural influences. If you find yourself in San Gimignano, make sure you visit the Chigi Tower and Palace. Luciana Cilemmi holds regular events in the rooms of the medieval tower, such as the presentation of wines, both from her vineyards and elsewhere, attended by international journalists, experts from the sector and critics. She also organises exhibitions of works of art and paintings, and press conferences on the subject of "Wine in San Gimignano during medieval times”. Visiting the home of Luciana Cilemmi is like re-living an aspect of the past that will not return except through the imagination of those who have believed and continue to believe in this story.
