Florence Wine and Food Winter Experience

 Cooking with fresh truffles, drinking with Chianti wines, learning and laughing.

If you are food and winelovers or you would like the idea to become more expert in tasting wine and unique food traditions, or you are really expert, you are more then welcome at La Limonaia.

Giulio, the owner, will be glad to open you the door and welcome you in his food and wine–laboratory, where you’ll spend half a day with some of his friends, Donatella, Cristian and Moreno, learning, chatting and tasting Tuscan specialities. He’ll bring you through a virtual Tuscan walk between history and traditions while you’ll taste flavours and aromas of Tuscan treasures. You’ll stop when you’ll like may be to learn how to prepare fresh home made pasta for truffles with Donatella, or following Critian through wines and secretes, or may be you’ll prefer to listen to a truffle hunter that will tell you about this black gold, how to use it and how to taste it. At the end you’ll definitively sit in the old kitchen. (La limonaia has been built during the XV Century) and you’ll have an unforgettable truffle lunch.

You can look or learn with Donatella the secrets to prepare Tagliolini and Ravioli using the original marble table. Donatella Cinelli works as a chef in a local trattoria. She is chef of La Limonaia cooking experiences since 2003.

Cristian Giorni, our young and dynamic sommelier, will present you a selection of our regional Chianti wines. Cristian after his studies of Oenologist at Florence University is become an important sommelier at Le Sorgenti winery one of the most important wine producer in Bagno a Ripoli.

An expert truffle hunter that comes with some fresh truffles, found just for you early in the morning. He knows about the truffle word and is the President of the Val Tiberina Truffle Association and Vice President of the National Truffle Association. He’s also a producer of unique and natural truffle products that you’ll taste as the “truffle cream” or the “truffle olive oil”.

(between Cristian and guest) with grape detritus ready to made into grappa. Giulio benuzzi has started his carrier as Director of the famous Restaurant Le Alpi in Milano city. As lover of Tuscany culinary traditions, he has decided to dedicate his life to show everybody how food means joy, family and friendship because is an Italian history that can become yours.

Example of a Truffle Menu

First Plate: Bean's and tomato's soup with truffle, Pappardelle al tartufo e parmigiano (Pappardelle with truffle and Parmesan cheese).

Experience PROGRAM:

Meeting Point: Florence - piazzale Michelangelo (under the Michelangelo Statue)

Time 10.00 a.m

Arrival at La Limonaia

Lunch: 1.00 p.m.

Visit the Aging room and the wine shop of Le Sorgenti wine producer

Time 3.00 p.m.

End of the program

Around 5.30 p.m. come back to Piazzale Michelangelo Florence down town

Rates:

The rate include: the transportation from Piazzale Michelangelo to La Limonaia and back, the wine tasting, the lesson on how to prepare the home made fresh pasta, the lesson on the truffle world, the aperitif plus the truffle lunch and the visit to the wine shop and cellar of Le Sorgenti producer.