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.

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.

Our Farmhouse lies on a fascinating position on the Tuscan hills. It is surrounded by a vast stretch of olive groves and vineyards of our famous wines: Nobile and Rosso di Montepulciano. We are located between Valdichiana and Val d'Orcia, in a unique and unspoiled area. We’ll make you learn about our landscape, on an easy walk through the countryside, woods and olive groves surrounding the farmhouse. Our olive trees are age-old, sumptuous and proud, with robust roots that are witnesses to the passage of centuries. They are trees that we have been growing one by one with love and passion. Through the colors, scents and sounds of the untouched nature, we will reach the olive groves area where you’ll enjoy an intimate time for tasting, which will take you to savor a 4-course menu matched with our wines. You will be trained to exercise your sense of smell and taste, in order to better perceive the flavors and characteristics of our products.

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.

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.

Immerse yourself in a private pasta and tiramisu-making class in a welcoming home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and tiramisu and taste the fruit of your labour for lunch or dinner accompanied by local wines. During this private lesson, you will learn how to prepare 2 pasta recipes and the tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of these iconic recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family once home with an Italian meal! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Farm Tour: the Cinta Senese Tuscan pig, a unique experience to meet the famous Tuscan two-colored pig

Immerse yourself in a private pasta-making class at the Cesarina's home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a glass of local wine. You'll have a fully equipped workstation with utensils and ingredients and your local host will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic regional pasta recipe, handed down by generations of mammas and nonnas. After the class, sit down at the table with your Italian family and taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of local wines. This experience is held by Cesarine, Italy’s oldest network of home cooks and wine experts. Cesarine are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences. Every host is reviewed for authentic culinary traditions.

Visit the vibrant local market and immerse yourself in a private dining experience at a Cesarina's home, enjoy an exclusive show cooking and taste authentic recipes from Montepulciano treasured in family cookbooks passed down by real Italian Mammas. Feel the warmth of Italian hospitality as you connect with local people.  Enjoy a 4-course menu including starter, pasta, main course with side dish, dessert with drinks included (water, selection of red and white wines from regional cellars and coffee). This experience is held by Cesarine: Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 500 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Tuscan Chef Experience: recipes and wines. Meet the Chef and pair each dish with its best wine

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

Cooking Class dedicated to the refined art of local pastry-making: learn how to bake Tuscan cantucci and other delicious sweets.

A typical Tuscan dinner among the vineyard rows

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

Tuscan cooking class at the farm: cook local traditional dishes in pure Tuscan style.

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.

Don't lose the opportunity to become a "pizzaiolo" (pizza-maker) and a great tiramisu maker! Enter a local home, connect with an expert home cook and discover how Italian mamma and nonnas used to prepare awesome pizza at home. With this private hands-on cooking class, you will learn how to make pizza and tiramisù from scratch from a real Italian family. To complete your feast, enjoy what you have prepared for lunch or dinner with a selection of local wine included. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family with a pizza party once you come back home! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

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.

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.

Upon your arrival we will deliver you the picnic basket, made especially for you, and then we will accompany you in the olive grove where you will find a blanket to relax in the shade of an olive tree and enjoy the view over the hills of Montepulciano, immersed in a breathtaking panorama. The olive trees, a blanket, a basket full of delicacies, a bottle of wine, two glasses to toast the landscape of Montepulciano before your eyes. You can enjoy an agri-menu consisting of traditional dishes prepared with our organic products and other local quality products. The natural setting among the olive trees, and the appointments thought out down to the smallest detail, will top off this nice experience satisfying both your palate and sight!

Let's make cheese: visit a dairy in the area and you will be guided step by step in the preparation of the cheese.

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

Pizza making: have fun with your family preparing homemade pizza.