Top San Gimignano Classes & Workshops

San Gimignano is surrounded by quiet countryside dotted with small wine estates. Visit one of these traditional farms and connect with local hosts on this tour and wine tasting experience. Take in the organic farm's garden, orchard, vineyard, olive grove, "vinsantaia" aging room, and cellar. Then enjoy a tasting of eight organic wines of your choice paired with the farm's own olive oil plus local cheeses and cold cuts and other culinary combinations.

Learn how to prepare classic Italian dishes in this half-day Chianti cooking class. Choose from morning or afternoon classes, where you’ll learn how to prepare a pasta dish, sauce, and dessert. Lunch or dinner after the lesson, wine, and all ingredients are included.

Get ready for a truffle-tasting adventure with this 3-hour lunch and hunting experience in San Gimignano. Your certified guides will take you to the prime truffle grounds and teach you everything you need to know about these esteemed delicacies. With your four-legged friends leading the way, you can experience the thrill of hunting for truffles in the midst of nature. Return to Podere La Marronaia for a mouth-watering truffle lunch, perfectly paired with organic wines and olive oils.

Discover the art of pasta making and other Italian cooking techniques at a 2-hour class in Tuscany. Visit a winery and learn to create three varieties of pasta plus other Tuscan classics, with guidance from a chef. Then, savor the recipes cooked by our chefs. Afterward, enjoy an estate tour and tastings of 15 home-made winery products, including wines and olive oils. Choose a lunchtime or evening class, with no hotel pickup or drop-off included.

Tuscany is Italy’s gastronomic heartland and a cooking class is the perfect way to discover the region’s rich culinary traditions. On this 3-hour small-group cooking class, pick up tips and techniques from a local chef; create traditional recipes such as antipasti, bruschetta, and pasta dishes; then tuck into a delicious homemade lunch or dinner, accompanied by Tuscan wines.

Learn how to cook authentic pasta and tiramisu in a local’s own home kitchen in a unique class that incorporates local knowledge and the passing on of traditional skills. Visit the home of your chef tutor, and after a warm welcome, tie on your apron and get ready to make some pasta from scratch. After you have cooked your dishes, enjoy them together as a light supper.

Spend a half-day in the Tuscan countryside learning a new skill with this cooking class in Chianti. Learn the secrets of cooking like a Tuscan in the kitchen of a Renaissance villa. Get hands-on experience with guidance from knowledgeable chef instructors. Prepare either lunch or dinner, depending on the class you choose, and then eat what you've made along with local wine.

The wine tasting at Casa Emma allows you to spend wonderful time and to live a unique experience in the Chianti Classico area. Thanks to one of our wine experts, you will have the chance to learn the philosophy of the company and the stages of the vinification process. This experience takes please in our beautiful terrace, completely surrounded by the peace of our vineyards. We will make sure that you have a unique and memorable experience.

Delve into authentic Tuscan cuisine while in San Gimignano with this exclusive pasta-making lesson in a private home. Meet your host and head straight to the kitchen to get to work preparing three different classic pasta dishes from scratch. Perfect your technique so you can turn out fresh pasta like a pro and pair each with the perfect sauce. Cap off your hands-on experience by sampling each of the recipes you’ve prepared paired with local wines.

Skip the busy cooking classes and instead opt for a private culinary immersion in San Gimignano. At a local’s home, benefit from the undivided attention of your instructor as you learn to prepare three traditional dishes, before dining with the family. Few travelers get the opportunity to enjoy such an intimate experience.

Step into the kitchen and prepare a delicious Tuscan meal during this 3-hour hands-on cooking class. Learn to make a 4-course seasonal Tuscan meal with your chef from start to finish such as homemade pasta, truffle lasagna, crostinis, steak, and tiramisu. Also enjoy a tasting of a variety of local wines, olive oils, and vinegars to get a well-rounded look at Tuscan cuisine.

Get out of the city for the day and get to know Tuscan cuisine a little better with this cooking class on a historic south Florence estate. Learn the secrets of finding, preparing, and creating meals with the region’s native truffles in a class with your private guide, a professional chef. Sample some of the sumptuous vintage wines produced at this sprawling vineyard estate.

A special tour that gives more space to the natural environments surrounding the farm. You will be taken on a walk through the fields and vineyards and linger in the shade of a large oak tree for a cool Aperitivo. The tour continues through the vinsantaia, historical cellar, collection of agricultural tools. Tasting of 8 wines from our production: - "Casa Lucii" DOCG Vernaccia di San Gimignano; - 2 different vintages of "Mareterra" DOCG Vernaccia di San Gimignano reserve; - "Spicchio" IGT rosé Tuscan; - "Fuscelli" DOCG Chianti; - "Senarum" DOCG Chianti Colli Senesi; - "Arturo" IGT Tuscan Red with tailor-made artisanal chocolate pralines; - "Curato" DOC Vin Santo del Chianti with Tuscan Cantuccini. The tasting is accompanied by a taste of our organic extra virgin olive oil, cheese and cold cuts selection produced by local farms and accompanied by vegetables from the garden.

Tasting of organic extra virgin olive oil of our production, from hand-picked, cold-pressed olives and tasting of the symbolic wines of our land: from Vernaccia di San Gimignano to Chianti Classico. All accompanied by preserves, jams, cheeses and typical products to guarantee a bite of Tuscany at every bite.

If you have fallen in love with handmade Italian pasta in Tuscany but don’t know how to recreate this crowd-pleaser at home, learn the secrets to making fresh pici, tagliatelle, gnocchi, and traditional sauces during this Tuscan cooking class. Visit your host’s vineyard and olive grove, enjoy a wine tasting and sample of extra-virgin olive oil, and end your class with lunch or dinner in the rustic family kitchen to enjoy what you’ve prepared.

Develop a strong body with a balanced mind, while cultivating your inner strength and radiance. Join our yoga classes on the farm hill for a unique experience. Completely immersed in the Tuscan countryside you can enjoy a unique view of the towers of San Gimignano to relax your body and mind.

An approach to tasting our wines with a focus on food-wine pairing. Suggestions and experiences in a glass, to become a real taster.

In thisexperience you will have the chance to experience a relaxing moment suitable for all ages. You will be in first person, accompanied by our staff and very nice dogs, to look for truffles in our truffle forest, next to the green vineyards in the Chianti countryside. You will experience unique emotions by learning to search, recognize and clean the precious truffles. During the truffle hunt, and the subsequent cooking class you will learn in first person to manipulate the truffle, making dishes with our cook who will teach you all the secrets of how to taste it, eat it or keep it. Have lunch in a tuscan winery, tasting the wines produced by the winery for over 13 generations. All completed by visiting the medieval city of San Gimignano, for shopping and to admire the wonders of history and the City. On request is possible to have an exciting Archery experience or an unbelievable Helicopter Wine Tour over San Gimignano and the Chianti's hills.

Cooking Classes at Casa Emma represent a very unique food and wine experience, perfect if you want to learn more about traditional Tuscan cuisine and food and wine pairing. As soon as you arrive, you will be welcomed by a wine expert who will follow you during the whole experience, starting from a tour in the cellar, where you can learn more about the company philosophy and the winemaking. Then, you will meet our Chef (English speaking) who will guide you through the different stages of the food preparation, by using only Tuscan raw materials. The recipes selected by our Chef include: pasta (ravioli, tagliatelle…), Pizza Margherita and a dessert, but we are ready and open to meet every request! Just before eating, our wine expert will explain to you all the products made in the farmhouse: our extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and 5 different types of wine to pair with food. The minimum number of participants for this experience is 2 people, up to 12.

Learn how to make authentic homemade pasta and prepare your own lunch. Discover secrets and techniques of local traditional cuisine. All the dishes will be accompained by the wines of our production.

Learn how to make authentic homemade Cantuccini, famous tuscan biscuits. Discover secrets and techniques of making Cantuccini. Taste them accompained by our Vin Santo del Chianti

The Itcooking team will come to your location where they will do the cooking class so you will enjoy a unique culinary experience in the comfort of the villa where you spend your Tuscan holidays and you will discover the region’s passion for food and wine. Chianti is famous for its wine, the sweetness of its hills, its history and charm of life.

With its rich agricultural bounty, Tuscany is one of the greatest culinary regions of Italy. In this 4-hour private hands-on cooking class, get whisked to a working organic farm in the Chianti region where the owner will teach you to prepare an authentic farm-to-table Tuscan lunch from his gardens. This activity also includes wine tasting, tours of the estate, and private round-trip transportation from your hotel in San Gimignano.