The Italian good life: eat well, drink well and loving family.
Torciano Winery has a long tradition behind, founded in 1972, continue to produce fine wines thanks to Pierluigi Giachi and his family. The love for the family, eat well and drink fine wine are the three fundamental principles that guide us every day from morning to evening.
The good life is an Italian characteristic envied around the world.
Knowing how to appreciate the time, to share everything with friends and family, enjoy good food and a good glass of wine; are all fundamental aspects of life that can be lost due a frenetic life style of life.
At the Tenuta Torciano Winery, you will find not only good and genuine food, fine wine and time to relax, but also a welcome and quality communication. Here you can eat homemade pasta by mother Graziella, we prepare dishes with vegetables from our garden, using only fruit and vegetables in season.
For us breakfast, lunch and dinner are sacred rites, not like fast food, but we are promoters and supporters of slow food. Here you can eat and drink slowly and enjoy every glass of wine and dish homemade.
We were told “Torciano Winery is a Case History! This level of quality, hospitality and communications is, perhaps, only in the estates of the Napa Valley. Without the Italian history and culture. ”
For us it is an honor to be compared to the famous estates of the Napa Valley, but most importantly, it is a pleasure to be able to pass every day the passion, the culture and history of Italy in all that we do best: produce wine.
In the fertile land in the Napa Valley we have a great example of Italian tradition: Robert Mondavi.
A life devoted to his work, love for family and the Italian tradition of eating and drinking well. As for Robert Mondavi, even for Pierluigi Giachi family and the good life in the Italian style are fundamental values.
Robert led in America the Italian tradition of eating and drinking well, and love for the family, and founded an empire famous all over the world. The Italian good life, thanks to Robert Mondavi, also came to America, in the Napa Valley.
Thanks to its Italian values, based on love for the family, good food and good wine, Robert Mondavi made a great family business that produces excellent wine known throughout the world.
With the same passion and the same ideas, Pierluigi Giachi, along with his family, carries on the Tenute Torciano Winery and works every day to get better and better and live the italian good life: eat well, drink well and love the family.
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.
