Welcome Back in Italy!
Renew your Membership and discover what are you entitled to!
The use of instructors sommeliers and authorized stores within the official Tenuta Torciano network is the only way to ensure that you entrust your experience in wine & food to a qualified and experienced Italian winery team. For this reason, the Welcome Back program, designed by Tenuta Torciano for customers who wish to return to the winery in Italy after at least a year of absence.
With this program Tenuta Torciano can guarantee a very high quality tasting of its wines, from new vintages to special reserves, presented vertically in an exciting wine tasting experience in the various locations of the Torciano Winery “Country Chic” Estate. All the wine experiences are presented and assisted by the specialized sommelier instructors of Torciano, who have been trained at the Torciano Training Center in San Gimignano
The service details are stored in the Torciano electronic database. We will also provide the customer with a certification of a photo album of the experience lived on our estate. As a further advantage, the program entitles those who join the Welcome Back Program and renew their membership to visit the San Gimignano winery after a year’s absence. All members of Tenuta Torciano Vip Club who come back to visit us together with new friends and relatives will be entitled to a special price on our best experiences.
It was a real pleasure to host again in June our friends Dan, Harvey, Magda, Scott & Dana, Jeff, Kelli, Patrick, Ginger, Laura, Heather, Tim, Bill & Judie and Scott.
So what are you waiting for? Start enjoying instant benefits as a member of Tenuta Torciano’s Vip Club!
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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.
