Tuscan Castle and Cellars Small Group Tour with Pasta Making Class +Wine Tasting

This was one of the best tours I have ever done, period. We spent two weeks in Italy, touring several different cities Ans experiences but this was by far our favorite. The chef, Gerry was incredibly personable and kept us engaged through the day. The food turned out phenomenal and we can’t wait to go home and show off our new pasta skills. The wine was lovely as well! Thank you to all the staff who were so kind to us!

Memorable & marvelous experience in a beautiful castle surrounded by vineyards and Italian beauty. A must for food and wine lovers.

This was one of our favorite tours. The staff at the castle were so welcoming & we had a great tour. The cooking class was more thorough than I anticipated, including making pasta from scratch. The chef was so much fun, very personable. We then enjoyed the final dinner in a beautiful room, by a fireplace, with view of the property. Very romantic. We had some of their amazing wine shipped back to U.S. I highly recommend this tour!

Really fun experience. The wine tour was great to fully appreciate the castle and the history as well as the family’s passion for wine making. And the cooking lesson was so much fun. The chef had great character and really represented the best of Italian culture (food making, in my opinion). We enjoyed a great feast from our cooking and met great people for good company in an intimate setting. Highly recommend this tour.

Excellent guide and marvelous food and wine. We were fortunate to have a private lesson and couldn't wait to eat what we made. We would recommend this experience to everyone!

We went to the winery for the pasta-making class which was outstanding. The chef really took a lot of time with us and explained the dos and don'ts of pasta and sauce making. We also liked the wine so much we ordered some bottles to be shipped home to NJ. Please make sure you sign up for both the wine tasting and class it was well worth it.

It was great. The wine and food were great and very nice and helpfull people. We recommand it for sure.

It was such a nice experience. Me and my boyfriend had a private tour in the wine cellars and then cooking class including pasta making. After that we had a nice 4-course lunch with a good wine. Everyone and everything was super nice so we would recommend it 100%.

What a spectacular experience ! Words cannot express how wonderful this adventure was ! From the castle tour to the cooking to wine pairing ..... absolutely exceptional One of our favorite excursions in Italy !

The one thing my husband & I wanted to do while in Italy was take a cooking class that was something more than make pizza. I am so glad that we signed up for this experience. There was excellent communication from the hospitality manager, coordinating food restrictions, travel details to the property and anything else that might be needed. As soon as we were picked up, we were treated more like old friends than tourists. Our host Lorenzo was educational. charming, and fun. His knowledge of the estate and the Chianti region is vast and he is able to share it in an easygoing manner. It is so obvious that he loves what he is doing, you will be in very good hands with him. After a tour of the castle and wine cellars, we were taken into the kitchen to begin our cooking class. I consider myself to be fairly good in the kitchen and learned so much while we were there. The cooking experience was very hands on, with everyone involved in various steps of making your dinner for the night. Once we were finished, Lorenzo took us back into the dining room of the castle to enjoy our meal and to sample wine pairings with each course. The wine is outstanding and works perfectly with each course. Lorenzo gave us short tutorials on each of the wines through out the evening and at the end of the night took us into the shop to be able to purchase wine and olive oil. (their olive oil is like nothing you have ever tasted or smelled. If you do nothing else, take home a few bottles of this) The only bad part was that the evening had to end. We would repeat this experience again whenever we make it back to Florence. It was truly one of the highlights of our trip.