Top Montepulciano Dining Experiences

You can't visit Italy without trying at least one pasta dish... So, we'll teach you two! Learn how to roll 'sfoglia' (fresh pasta) by hand and how to prepare 2 simple different kinds of pasta (filled pasta + fresh pasta) from scratch with your Cesarina. As the icing on the cake you will learn to prepare also the iconic Tiramisu. Share your passion for the Italian cuisine as you make new friends in this hands-on cooking class. It's a great way to truly experience Italian culture. • Learn to roll 'sfoglia' (fresh pasta) by hand • Learn to make 2 iconic pasta types • Learn to make the iconic tiramisu • Small-group cooking class with a maximum of 12 people. Share your passion for the Italian cuisine with other lovely guests • Enjoy an Italian Aperitivo to warm-up Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country. They are welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Find out how Italians eat in Montepulciano during a private lunch or dinner at the home of a local chef. Everything is prepared before you, so you get an insider’s look at traditional family recipes. Be sure to come hungry as the 4-course meal consists of a starter, pasta, main course, and a side dish. Wash everything down with a selection of regional wines.

Roberto knows his pigs one by one; they are raised in a semi-wild state, with carefully selected feed and cereals grown in the Tuscan countryside. The experience is as rural as it is unforgettable; after a walk through the vineyards and the olive grove, you will have the opportunity to interact with "Ciro", the domestic pig, and to meet all his company of Cinta Senese pigs having fun in the mud. after meeting these cute animals (and maybe even taking some selfies with them), it will be time to delight your palate with a tasting platter of Cinta Senese cured meats or a quick lunch based on agricultural products, perhaps collected directly in the garden from you.

WINERY TOURS AND TUTORED WINE TASTING: instructive, cultural and educational winery visits to get in touch with the wine production techniques. You will turn yourself into a superb wine expert

Combine a sommelier-led wine tasting with a traditional Tuscan lunch during this gourmet Montepulciano excursion. Sample four local wines paired with regional products from within an authentic, centuries-old underground wine cellar. Then, sit down to a two-course Italian meal of cold cuts, cheeses, and fresh pasta, with vegetarian options available.

Discover the secrets to Tuscan cuisine during a small-group cooking class in Montepulciano. With the careful guidance of your host, learn how to prepare an appetizer, two types of fresh pasta with sauces, and an iconic dessert. Once everything is ready, sit down with your classmates and enjoy your handmade Italian feast. Afterward, you’re ready to impress your friends and family back home.

Explore a wine cellar in Montepulciano with this tasting and tour. See rows of large oak barrels full of aging wine and learn about how it is made. Taste three local wines alongside pecorino cheese, Tuscan salami, and bruschetta. A small group size offers an intimate atmosphere.

The medieval hilltop town of Montepulciano is set in Tuscany's culinary heart. Experience both the local culture and cuisine with this tour that combines a guided walk through Montepulciano's old town with a number of food and wine breaks. Learn about the town's history and architecture between stops at a local gourmet shop, traditional restaurant, and wine cellar to taste local cheeses and charcuterie, handmade pasta, and wine.

Enjoy a full-day culinary experience in Montepulciano that features a visit to the local market, private cooking class, and 3-course meal. Learn from your chef-instructor about the ingredients in Italian cuisine, then help to prepare three classic regional dishes in your host’s private home kitchen. Top off your class with a 3-course lunch or dinner accompanied by local red and white wines.

Our farmhouse is the perfect location to enjoy, together with the typical Tuscan cuisine, the undisputed charm of the breathtaking panorama that lies on the slopes of the Renaissance village of Montepulciano. It is surrounded by greenery, in an endless expanse of vineyards and olive groves. An ideal place for lovers of Taste and Romantic Atmosphere. On our terrace you can enjoy the vibrant emotions that are given to us by the enveloping touch of summer warmth. All this accompanied by a Tuscan Menu combined with our wines produced in the terroir of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Our dishes are all inspired by the Tuscan tradition, offer authenticity and seasonality of the ingredients and taking inspiration from local cuisine, they are proposed with particular and captivating reinterpretations. The menu is 4 courses with the pairing of our wines.

WINERY TOURS AND TUTORED WINE TASTING: instructive, cultural and educational winery visits to get in touch with the wine production techniques. You will turn yourself into a superb wine expert You will visit the production area, the aging cellar with its big Slavonia oak casks and the oak barrels, the bottles will ripen, and then, after this winery you will taste, tutored by an expert sommelier, 4 of our wines and our Extra Virgin Olive Oil • Rosso di Montepulciano DOC, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG CRU, IGT Santo Pellegrino • Extra Virgin Olive Oil served on slices of fresh Tuscan bread

Get a glimpse into an authentic Italian kitchen with a private half-day cooking class inside a home in Montepulciano. Choose between a morning or afternoon start time and learn about creating Italian specialties from scratch. Cook three regional recipes during a hands-on class and taste everything you prepare alongside a glass of local wine.

Enjoy 1.5 hours wine tasting experience in an historical cellar in the heart of Montepulciano. Together with an expert sommelier, discover the cellar’s underground of XVI century characterized by vaults and tunnels attributed of Etruscan civilization. Listen the history of this ancient cellar as well as the explanation of the methods and techniques of the wine production. During this journey follows a unique tradition in high quality wine production. Furthermore, discover private collection of old wine bottles tunnel and be amazed by the Etruscan tomb located in the cellar. Then, take part to an exclusive wine tasting experience combined to a delicious local snacks. A sample of four local wines will be served with local Tuscan products. During this experience, you will taste four of the most important wines made in Montepulciano and known all around the world while a professional sommelier will explain you in depth the particularity of those Italian excellencies.

Visit a typical Cinta Senese farmhouse in Montepulciano and live an authentic rural experience. Enter in Roberto’s farmhouse, during the path, you will meet Ciro, the domestic pig, and its Cinta-Senese-piglets company. Delight your palate with a typical light lunch paired with fine wine.

Immerse yourself in the rhythms and beauty of farm life through Fattoria Svetoni’s Tuscan cookery classes and activities. We would like to offer you an authentic cooking event, set in a real farmhouse located in the heart of Italy surrounded by rolling hills, vineyards and olive trees, and steeped in Etruscan and Medieval history. This is the perfect place to learn about authentic Italian food. Upon your arrival we will show you our farm, you will be informed about all the processes that lead to the production of a wine. After the visit, you will be introduced to the culinary art. All your work will be rewarded by the pampering of our staff who will serve the dishes you prepared accompanied by our wines.

Nothing says Tuscany like olive groves and vineyards. Savor the beauty of the Tuscan hills with this al fresco lunch under the olive trees at a farm just outside Montepulciano. Take in views of the Valdichiana and Val d’Orcia countryside while relaxing over a four-course meal featuring Tuscan specialties paired with the estate’s own wines. Opt to relax by the pool or in the spa after your meal (extra charge).

Visit and lunch to a winery producing Vino Nobile di Montepulciano: an ideal tour to match the discovery of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano with the traditional local gastronomy.

You will experience in first person a unique experience in search of the precious truffle with a tour on the wood trails.

Enjoy an exclusive tasting of Tuscan wines combined with a fun cooking class and a typical lunch in an ancient and exclusive winery in the Montepulciano Area.

Guided gourmet Tour in Valdichiana Senese: the products of the territory explained right by the local artisans of taste.

First, you will discover meditation, with a secular introduction and tools suitable for everyday life, allowing you to achieve a greater capacity for being present in what you are experiencing. We will therefore establish the link between attention span and complete presence of our sensations. All this will lead you to better perceive the aromas and taste, in order to transform this event into a precious moment and be able to apply this ability to participate in everything that will come into contact with your 5 senses. You will discover a completely different involvement in what you eat, drink and experience in a general way. It is an exercise that will lead you to better identify your impressions, your perceptions and your emotions, in order to be fully present externally, internally and to be able to take full advantage of the experience and what it can reveal in you. Join us for a fabulous Yoga and meditation experience in Tuscany!

Would you like to discover the most authentic side of Italian gastronomy and share it with other enthusiasts of the “cucina italiana”? Enjoy this shared Market tour and typical Dining experience. Visit the vibrant local market and learn about the seasonal produce and secret ingredients. Then, head to your Cesarina’s house to enjoy a 3-course dining experience, showcasing the authentic regional dishes stored in the cookbooks of your host. You will take part in an experience which is so much more than just a lunch or dinner. You will make new friends, feel like one of the family and live like the Italians do.

A guided wine trekking through the hills and vineyards surrounding the winery of our farm. A unique landscape, chiseled over the centuries by the encounter between nature's work and human intervention. The return will be even more pleasant, you will be welcomed in our cellar to learn all the steps that lead to the creation of a wine. You can then enjoy the tasting accompanied by an appetizing Tuscan menu with a first choice, a cheese and salami platter, plus dessert.

The Tour combines the visit of an ancient Ironworks with an oengastronomy experience in a Tuscan Winery. The Ironworks still retains the loading tank on the back, the three water wheels, with the respective feeding ducts, the wind machine (a long metal column, into which the water was conveyed, which allowed the flame of the forges to be fed directly ) and the gigantic internal hammers, moved to hydraulic energy. It is a unique historical finds in central Italy. One, of its kind in Casentino, its origins seem to date back to the sixteenth century under the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.