Cooking and Wine Tours in Tuscany
Tuscany extends from the west coast and east inland with its capital in Florence.
In Florence, my top three art picks are the Uffizi for works from Giotto to Botticelli, the Accademia for Michelangelo’s David and stunning Romanesque San Miniato church overlooking Florence.
Stop at a wine bar among locals for Chianti Classico and a typical porchetta sandwich.
Near Florence in enchanting hill town, Fiesole see ancient Etruscan walls and enjoy spectacular views of Florence and the valley.
salad in Montalcino, Tuscany
The Chianti wine country sits between Florence and Siena. Taste top wines and explore picturesque towns like Greve.
In Siena’s beautiful medieval centre, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the imposing town hall has lovely frescoes and a tower to climb for vast vistas. After shopping in fine stores, step into a bakery for a slice of panforte, Siena’s special cake.
South of Siena, hill town Montalcino is home to Brunello, one of Italy’s top reds, and tempting bakeries, wine bars and shops. Hill town Montepulciano is famous for Vino Nobile, one of Italy’s best reds. Renaissance palaces, wine shops and leather shops line its streets.
Driving or walking country paths, the gorgeous countryside will enthrall you: hills of fields, vineyards and olive trees, and incredible views from atop the towns.
Some typical dishes: bruschetta with fresh tomatoes and basil, pasta with porcini mushrooms, roast duck or wild boar, almond biscuits with vin santo wine. Top quality olive oil.
Mama Margaret’s Cooking Tours in Tuscany
Cooking & Brunello Wine Tour in Southern Tuscany
3 or 6 nights
Would you like to cook, eat, drink and chat with a cast of Tuscans and feel part of their lives? Enjoy cooking school classes with a cheese making family and creative restaurant chefs. Visit an artisan olive oil producer on his farm to see how he makes oil on his old granite wheel.
Visit a Brunello winery with friendly family owners. Taste great Vino Nobile with a hospitable producer in his ancient cellars.
Enjoy exploring on foot? Walk through exquisite walled hill towns and country roads in valleys with breathtaking views.
If you’d also like to stay at a historic villa hotel, you’ll love this Italian cooking and wine tour.
Authentic Italian Family Cooking Tour in Southern Tuscany
4 or 6 nights
Want to feel included in families’ lives in Tuscany? Live in a nice apartment with stunning views on a family’s farm near Pienza. Enjoy dinner and cooking class with the warm, welcoming family.
Cook with a cheese making family and a creative restaurant owner. Visit an artisan olive oil producer on his farm to see how he makes oil on his old granite wheel.
Visit a Brunello winery with the friendly family owners. Taste great Vino Nobile with a hospitable Vino Nobile producer in his 14th century cellars
Enjoy exploring on foot? Amble through exquisite walled hill towns and country roads in valleys with breathtaking views.
Cooking Tour with a Family in the Chianti Hills
5 nights
Would you like to cook a wide range of typical Tuscan dishes every day with excellent and fun loving home cooks in their country house cooking school and eat your creations around their kitchen table with their kids too?
You live in a pretty room in their well renovated farm house with splendid views—hills of forests, vines and olive trees. Relax in their garden, enjoy excursions to Chianti towns and exchange stories and laughter over food and wine. You’ll feel like part of an Italian family in Tuscany!
Discover Three Top Tuscan Wine Regions In Three Days Tour: Brunello, Chianti Classico And Vernaccia
3 nights
Imagine staying at a beautifully restored winery estate in the rugged Chianti Rufina hills east of Florence and exploring three of Tuscany’s most famous wine regions with a sommelier as your local friend and guide. In three heavenly days, right where they’re made, taste over 20 excellent Tuscan wines like: Chianti Classico south of Florence, Brunello in the Montalcino area south of Siena, and Vernaccia in San Gimignano.
At the estate, taste their great Rufina wines and extra-virgin olive oil made from their olives. Laze by the pool and marvel at the panoramas. As you dine in renowned restaurants, you experience these wines matched with fine Tuscan fare.
Farm Cooking and Long Weekend Tour in Tuscany
3 nights
Looking for a short Italian cooking school tour with a variety of real life, fun experiences with local people and tours of towns in Tuscany?
Relax at an elegant, three star country inn with pool and gardens on a scenic ridge. Get to know the hospitable family owners and their creative chef in a cooking class.
Cook with a delightful home cook in her ancient house in San Gimignano and a great cook on her farm near San Miniato. Explore Volterra famous for Etruscan art, San Gimignano famous for its towers and Vernaccia wine and San Miniato famous for white truffles.
In October, go on a real truffle hunt with a hunter and her dogs in the forest. View Tuscany Truffle Tour
Cooking with Five Chefs and Exploring Tuscan Towns
5 nights
Experience every day life with a wonderful range of warm, fun local people in the Tuscan countryside and Pisa, San Gimignano, Volterra and San Miniato. Cook hands-on with an exuberant chef in her Pisa restaurant and a creative chef in an excellent country restaurant.
As you dine, you feel like insiders, the chef’s friends. Cook and dine with two great home cooks and their families in their town and country homes so you feel almost part of the family.
Discover San Gimignano famous for its towers and Vernaccia wine, Volterra famous for Etruscan art, San Miniato famous for white truffles and Pisa.
Live at a farm B&B in a lovingly renovated historic home with simple Tuscan country style rooms, about 50 km southwest of Florence and 60 km north of Siena. Just walk through the sunflower fields to the little town, Montaione. Get to know the friendly family owners, laze by the pool, stroll in the organic garden, or just sit and admire the sweeping country views.
In October, go on a real truffle hunt with a hunter and her dogs in the forest.
Cooking, Wine and Tuscan Life Tour at a 13th Century Florentine Villa
7 nights
Imagine living on a wine estate with a Medici villa in the country, within a five minute walk of a little town and close to Florence! The best of city and country worlds.
In the big kitchen’s cooking school, you prepare and eat multi-course Tuscan lunches with English speaking Tuscan chefs—good teachers and good fun.
You enjoy guided excursions to Florence, the Chianti wine country, a ceramic factory not open to the public and a charming hamlet and have free time to explore on your own too.
A wonderful balance of food, wine, sightseeing and free time on this Italian cooking school tour!
Do want to drink Barolo and Brunello wines and experience their Piedmont AND Tuscany wine regions? Travel to both areas, enjoy five cooking classes in two cuisines with a wonderful range of fun home cooks and restaurant chefs. Meet winemakers in private visits at Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello and Vino Nobile wineries and taste the wines right where they’re made. Walk peaceful wine country paths with stunning views and feel the peace seep into your soul.
Between Piedmont and Tuscany, take a break by the sea in Cinque Terre, walk the scenic pathways or explore by public boat.
Explore three regions in eight days or two regions in five days: Piedmont & Cinque Terre or Tuscany & Cinque Terre.
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