Navigate to new horizons with San Lorenzo Mediterranean Cruises
Born from the Giachi family’s passion for the sea, this private cruise in the Mediterranean Sea is a full-day adventure through one of Italy’s most exceptional marine areas. Renowned for its biodiversity, the Tuscan Archipelago comprises over 61,000 km2 of sea and is the largest European marine park.
Like the pearls of a necklace, each island is different from the others. Each island preserves the traces of its history, each island is unique, original, with only one common feature: the beauty of its nature. And the chain that connects these jewels is the sea, a warm and welcoming sea with its flat calm, but also unpredictable with its storms as only the Mediterranean can be.
Today, on board of our new San Lorenzo 80 Yacht (24 meters) nominated “ASTRID”, we explore the heart of the Mediterranean Sea and the pearls of the Tuscan archipelago. The project of private cruises with tasting on a San Lorenzo yacht was born from the personal passion of Pierluigi Giachi together with his wife Luciana and his son Emanuele who managed to combine business, pleasure and love for nature in an exceptional way. To understand this, just visit Tenuta Torciano in San Gimignano, a charming winery dating back to 1720 and situated in the middle of the Tuscan countryside, surrounded by wonderful gardens, rose bushes and a vegetable garden that supplies the estate’s kitchens and cooking classes.
Anyone would have stopped here, but not the Giachi’s family who made their estate a springboard to realize new ambitious projects.
San Lorenzo 80 is a boat out of the ordinary, designed for those who love elegance in design as well as contact with the sea. With its interior in wood, teak and walnut, it evokes the golden age of sailing in the open sea. To inspire us was the chance to spend our summers navigating between the islands of the Mediterranean Sea with the possibility of enjoying all the comforts. So we decided to spend the same emotion with all our guests who love Tuscany and the sea.
Guests of the San Lorenzo 80 should feel like they are in an intimate boutique hotel, without losing the spirit of the Tuscan winery. Exactly for this reason we have reproduced on board the vertical tasting of our best wines, combined with tasty courses prepared directly on board by our chefs.
The ingredients used, exclusively fresh, together with obviously the “fish of the day” and excellent wines, are the pride of our tastings on board. The influence of Tenuta Torciano is also evident in the presentation of the wines, in the boat cellar that can accommodate up to 200 bottles, in the table setting and in the new way of conceiving hospitality.
The yacht, with its clean lines inside and outside, can be rented exclusively for itineraries in the Mediterranean Sea and can accommodate up to 10 people assisted by our crew, satisfying any kind of need. Because we know well that one of the most beautiful things of our San Lorenzo 80 is to live it as you love more!
CONTACT US to book or receive informations about ASTRID San Lorenzo 80 private cruises.
Transfer to San Lorenzo port: we can organize the transfer by private van or helicopter, on request.
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.
