A Tuscan winery in the vineyards green hills

The beautiful season is here and Tuscany gives its best: green hills of vineyards, the air of San Gimignano, Florence and Siena, the smell of cut grass and lunches outdoors among the rows. It's the right time to visit Tenuta Torciano, in San Gimignano, and taste its exclusive production.

The winery

A luxury winery in San Gimignano

Tenuta Torciano is a luxury winery once crossed by pilgrims on the Via Francigena. Today it welcomes visitors from all over the world, who come to discover the estate and its private oasis within its hectares of land, in contact with unspoiled nature. In the cellars you can taste hundreds of labels: a true wine atelier, with only high-quality products.

The estate sits in the triangle between Florence, San Gimignano and Siena. Its defining trait is wine: the art of making it has passed from father to son for over 13 generations of Tuscan vineyard workers.

The production

The wines of the five farms

In the estate's five farms, high-quality wines are grown: Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Chianti, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Rosso di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Rosso di Montepulciano, Bartolomeo Rosso di Toscana, Baldassarre Rosso di Toscana and Cavaliere Rosso di Toscana, along with Torciano's extra-virgin olive oil.

For the Giachi family, high quality means hand-made and Made in Italy. It's the idea behind the collections made with soul, where attention to Quality, Excellence, Exclusivity and Originality makes the winery's success.

Pierluigi Giachi oversees production with an almost obsessive control: for him the excellence of a product is its final value. That's why the labels, from aged paper to leather, are made in-house, for an exclusive collection made for demanding people.

The clientele of Tenuta Torciano is made up of demanding winelovers, seeking the true culture of Tuscan quality and the exclusivity of an Italian product found only in the cellar in San Gimignano, where you breathe the value of the Tuscan peasant tradition.

The visit

Visiting the winery

The visit to Tenuta Torciano begins among the vineyards, with relaxing walks and instructive wine-growing information, at the center of the spiral circular vineyard: rows of vines arranged in a circle around a central stone island, a vantage point over the landscape.

The visit continues in the production cellar, where the grapes of the harvest begin the journey that turns them into wine.

In the barrique cellar, important wines rest before being bottled. Inside, the restaurant serves typical Tuscan dishes paired with the wines of Pierluigi Giachi's Wine School: 13 labels to taste in a sober, fun and elegant setting.

The activities

What to do beyond the tasting

If that's not enough, the estate and its surroundings offer fun, instructive and relaxing activities to alternate with the tasting.

You can organize a truffle hunt in the estate's truffle wood: besides searching for this precious aphrodisiac tuber, it's a way to be in contact with nature and with the dogs, walking as far as the fluvial park of the Elsa river.

You can continue with a truffle cookery course, or a joyful Cooking Pizza course, followed by a dinner prepared by the estate's chefs together with a vertical tasting of the best cellar reserves, or a tour on horseback or by scooter.

There's also the exclusive Wine Etiquette in a private room, or free rein for creativity: Pierluigi Giachi and his team can meet any request with the magic of Tuscan know-how.