Experience San Gimignano Wine Country in Style at These 4 Effortlessly Luxurious Vineyards and Towers tour
A very special guest came to visit us in Tenuta Torciano, directly from the United States: Steve Perillo from Perillo Tours together with Diana, his assistant. During their business visit to Tuscany they decided to spend a whole day into the green of our estate for the filming of the next video commercial of “Perillo Tours” and to try personally all our best experiences.
Perillo Tours is one of our best business partners for many years. In fact, almost every day, we host many of their groups for wine tasting classes and visits to the cellar. So, our friends Steve and Diana decided to surprise one of their groups during a Pierluigi wine school tasting, and it was funny to see the astonishment in the faces of our American guests when they saw Steve in person.
Pierluigi and Steve have decided to improvise a small demonstration on how to taste the wine, followed by a toast, in front of the cameras and an entertained audience. After the greetings, the group continued its tasting together with Pierluigi while Steve got on our helicopter to start his tour … from the top!
A fantastic thirty minutes Helicopter Tour allowed Steve to admire from another point of view the Chianti vineyards and the most beautiful medieval villages of the Tuscan countryside such as San Gimignano, Certaldo, Monteriggioni up to Siena, above Piazza del Campo, to return again to fly over the San Gimignano tower’s and our estate. Steve was literally speechless and after the landing he continued the tour of the winery through our natural oasis and truffle forest, where our traditional truffle hunting was taking place.
After the filming, the time to try all our products in person has finally arrived: a special Tuscan Lunch in our vineyards restaurant , with a full tasting of the best wines of Tenuta Torciano accompanied by meats and cheeses, our traditional truffle lasagna and stewed boar, to make known to Steve what their customers taste every time when they decide to spend the best holiday moments with us.
Before returning to Florence we accompanied Steve and Diana to San Gimignano for a short tour of the city and the visit of our Chigi Tower in Piazza del Duomo, ending the day with a breathtaking view directly from the roof of our historic Tower.
It was really a great pleasure to have guests Steve and Diana from Perillo Tours and we are looking forward to see them again in Tenuta Torciano. In the meantime we say goodbye and thank them for their wonderful visit.
See you next time!
Ciao from Italy
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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.
