Elevate your stay with a Wellness day experience in Tuscany

Go beyond the usual winery tour. At Tenuta Torciano you can turn a single visit into a full day built around wellness, from truffle hunting in the estate's own forest to open-air yoga among the vines.

The experience

A day of truffle hunting, archery and Tuscan flavours

Tenuta Torciano takes you, in person, into the truffle forest next to its green Chianti vineyards, together with staff and dogs trained for the hunt. You learn to search for, recognise and clean the truffle yourself. During the truffle hunt and the cooking class that follows, the estate's chefs teach you how to handle the truffle and turn it into a dish, along with the secrets of tasting it, eating it and keeping it. There is also a fantastic archery experience in the estate's open spaces, and lunch with the Giachi family, tasting the best wines the winery has produced for over 13 generations. The day closes with a visit to the medieval town of San Gimignano, for shopping and for the wonders of its history. For the most adventurous, Tenuta Torciano can also organise a helicopter tour over the Tuscan hills and the historic towns of San Gimignano, Monteriggioni and Siena.

The day runs like this:

• 9.30 am – pick-up at your hotel or accommodation
• 10.30 am – arrival at the Torciano Winery Estate
• 11.00 am – truffle hunting, with an introduction to the truffle and how to recognise it
• 12.00 am – archery lesson in the estate's private forest, or the helicopter tour
• 1.00 pm – cooking class, with mainly truffle-based dishes
• 3.00 pm – lunch with wine tasting in the cellar
• 4.30 pm – visit to San Gimignano with your driver
• 6.30 pm – return to your hotel or accommodation

Two options can be added to the day: an archery session, learning to shoot with professional archers in the estate's open spaces; or the helicopter tour over the Tuscan hills, its old villages and the historic cities of San Gimignano, Monteriggioni and Siena.

Wellness

Yoga at the vineyard

For those who love nature and sport, Tenuta Torciano, partner of the Fitness Club for outdoor yoga classes, offers a new experience among the green vines. Teachers lead Torch Lighthearted style yoga classes at every level, right in the vineyards of the estate, letting the beauty of the place draw participants into the movement and into feeling good in their bodies.

The classes are outdoors because nature makes the experience richer and helps you be more aware of your own body: yoga postures become a moving meditation, breath synchronised with movement. In spring, summer and autumn, yoga classes take place outdoors in the vineyards, weather permitting; if a lesson has to be cancelled for bad weather, it is replaced with a full visit of the winery, a Tuscan lunch and a wine tasting.

Yoga at the vineyard is open to groups of two or more. From 10 am to 11.30 am you practise the discipline; after that you are welcomed into the cellar or the vineyards for a Tuscan lunch with a vertical wine tasting. The package includes:

• 10.00 am – one hour of yoga surrounded by the vineyards
• yoga and meditation movements immersed in the Tuscan countryside
• suitable for children too, with groups of at least 2 people
• 11.30 am – visit to the Tenuta Torciano winery, with lunch and a tasting of wine and oil

The winery experience is a vertical tasting of 15 Tuscan products, paired with a lunch served in the cellar or in the vineyards, depending on availability. A four-course lunch accompanies the tasting and the wine school: a typical Tuscan appetizer of salami, cheeses and bruschetta; Tuscan ribollita soup or truffle lasagna; roast meat with a side dish; and cantuccini biscuits with dessert wine, or vanilla ice cream with balsamic vinegar. The courses are chosen to pair well with the wines, and to give guests a feel for how to choose and taste wine once they are back home, leaving you feeling young and wonderful — a good memory to bring home from Italy.

For more information and prices about all the amazing experiences powered by Tenuta Torciano, write to torciano@torciano.com or booking@torciano.com.

A day that starts in the truffle forest and ends in the vineyards under the sky of San Gimignano — Tenuta Torciano, at your own pace.