Live the vineyard life in Tenuta Torciano Winery
Tenuta Torciano opens its doors to the most fantastic and original experiences to be enjoyed at 360 ° in our uncontaminated nature.
Thanks to our three kitchens and the fantastic “Grand Chefs” mobile kitchen, it will be possible to cook directly in the vineyard, in the midst of nature, with a beautiful panorama of gentle green hills around and with a view of the San Gimignano iconic towers.
The Cooking Classes at Tenuta Torciano are a complete, unique and original culinary experience that will allow our guests to learn how to cook the traditional dishes of our renowned and simple Tuscan cuisine. The flavors, the aromas, the vegetables harvested directly in our garden, the bunches of grapes that ripen at your fingertips, the glasses of wine that accompany this moment of pleasure to share with your loved ones and friends, has no equal for those loves the true Tuscan family and the “live the vineyard life”.
The magic and mastery of our chefs transform simple products from the earth into tasty dishes with different ingredients teaching this art to our guests, who will have an experience in their mind to relive at home with friends and family.
Our Cooking Classes are always held by family members with the involvement of our professional chefs who work together and teach the secrets of local cuisine, involving the guest in preparing the recipes chosen for that day, always using fresh products.
The “Farm to plate” concept in Tenuta Torciano Winery. The restaurants inside the Estate and Bottega Torciano in San Gimignano are the culinary and wine realms, respectively, of eight chefs, who design their menus with the collaboration of farmers and gardeners to bring the fruits of organic cultivation directly to the table.
The freshly picked ingredients in our garden, the fresh and aged cheeses, honey, figs, up to the vines of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Morellino, Trebbiano Toscano, Chardonnay and Vernaccia di San Gimignano delight the palate also in the original “Grand Chefs” mobile kitchen and in the “Cantine 2 Supertuscan” kitchen of the winery used in the Torciano Cooking School.
Truly involving are the artisan “Oilpressing” at the oil mill, Wine Tastings in the winery, Truffle Hunting lessons in the truffle farm of the estate and those of Art & Wine within our vineyards that see the organization of events and internationally renowned celebrations. Everything is designed to live in relaxation and actively immerse yourself in the vineyard life as a long weekend of Tuscan harvest.
And precisely in terms of well-being, here with the 2019 harvest, we offer products for beauty and therapeutic treatments drawing on the polyphenolic molecules of our grapes, precious antioxidants that play a fundamental role in regulating the cellular and inflammatory aging processes due to free radicals. Our face and body creams, produced from polyphenols extracted from the skins of Sangiovese grapes, make the skin more toned, firm and compact. It will be like coming back 10 years young.
Our cellar, as well as being sensitive to beauty and health, is particularly attentive to the cultivation of products, wines and organic oils, and recycling with the recovery of the berries used to produce our fine wines, making creams and body products to make beauty an indissoluble combination with pleasure.
Tenuta Torciano is not a simple winery but it is a life philosophy of a family that has welcomed its guests for 13 generations, involving them in all the senses.
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.
