Weekend delightful signed by Tuscany
With our diary tips on travel in Tuscany, you are not obliged to organize a mini escape in Italy but you can also go for our Glam proposals from home to enjoy Tuscany and its jewels from home too.
You can enjoy the ambiance of this affluent territory with your smartphone and below we present the first trip of our diary. Good trip!
DESTINATION # 1
San Gimignano WITH THE EYES OF A WineLover
Your guide is @tenutatorcianowinery
Arriving at the Tenuta Torciano Winery in San Gimignano, means walking in the sunshine of our Italy, means losing sight of the green hills of vineyards, olive groves, oak forests, red poppies, and yellow grape ears, The beauty of sunflowers, in a succession of colors and scents that no poet can imitate.
Lost in the vineyards of Tenuta Torciano, fascinating by the stories of the daily life of the vineyards, the technical explanations of the vineyards processing up to the grape harvest and their harvest with the vintage of September and October.
The visit allows an in-depth study of the reality of the Giachi family’s vineyards from the point of view of the belonging and the oenological territory with a wide tasting. Interesting is the landscape and architectural context, the barricade, the cellar and the tasting rooms both inside and outside directly on the garden.
First visit phase: approach to the Vineyard
In particular, you can appreciate the ancient Vigna of Vernaccia of San Gimignano, planted under the management by Romano Giachi in 1996. From which originates the name of the homonymous “Poggioaicieli” wine one of the most famous wines of the area; we are in one of the vineyards dedicated to the vine Vernaccia di San Gimignano with an exhibition facing south and south east. Do not miss the visit to the Sangiovese vineyard.
The vineyard garden
This new spiral vineyard is capable of conjugating production with aesthetics and tradition, becoming an attraction for the most “discovery manias”.
It is a harmonious sequence of spiral rows of screws, in a movement centered on a central stone island, as a scenic spot to enjoy this nature show.
The second phase of the visit: the cellar
Visit with a guided tour that will cover the history of Tenuta Torciano and the current production line. It is articulated over a period of 1.5 / 2 hours where you will be able to taste wines of our production.
The third stage of the visit: vertical tasting with Tuscan lunch
Tuscan cuisine with hors d’oeuvres of mixed salami, pecorino cheese and bruschette with extra virgin olive oil and tomatoes. Followed by a delicious lasagna with truffles and the simple and tasty Tuscan ribollita soup.
As a second course, we have grilled meat on the barbecue, peposo, Florentine steak accompanied by our precious truffles hunted and collected in our private truffle inside our enchanting forest, wildlife reserve of captive wild animals.
It is followed by 13 types of Brunello wines of Montalcino, Chianti, Chianti Classico, Special Reserves of Rosso in Tuscany such as our 2012 Bartolomeo, Knight 2012 and Baldassarre 2012, Vernaccia of San Gimignano and Prosecco and Dessert Wine to finish with the ” Accompanied by typical Tuscan “cantuccini” biscuits.
Who can book
The visit is aimed at a wide audience of both enthusiasts and people wishing to have a first experience of wine culture: it involves the presence of an expert guide to the area and our farm and cellar practices.
In suitcase
A linen trouser or a black tube for dinner with style inside the Palladium of our circular Vineyard, where you can enjoy a lovely view of the famous Towers of San Gimignano
More
To observe Tuscany with the eyes of a Tuscan WineLover there is the instagram @torcianowinery account that collects the suggestions of all our friends who every year from all over the world visit us to share with us this almost imaginary journey.
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.
