Hands-on Cooking Class and Lunch in the Heart of Chianti Classico

About this tour

Learn to make fresh pasta and tiramisu on an organic Chianti estate, then eat lunch on a terrace overlooking the vineyard rows that grew your wine. This four-hour session teaches two classic Italian dishes using ingredients you'll actually source at home, paired with the estate's own wines and oils. Groups run between two and eight people, keeping the pace deliberate and social—cooking happens slowly, eating happens together.

Highlights

• Roll and cut pasta by hand using traditional technique
• Prepare tiramisu with seasonal ingredients from scratch
• Lunch on a terrace overlooking Chianti Classico vineyards
• Wine and olive oil pairings from the organic estate
• Take home recipes and printed instructions to replicate dishes
• Small groups (2–8 people) maintain intimate pace

What to expect

You'll spend the first half of the session in the kitchen learning two dishes. The instructor demonstrates technique, then you roll up your sleeves and work through each step—kneading dough, shaping pasta, layering tiramisu. No shortcuts or molecular gastronomy; the point is mastering fundamentals you can repeat at home with ordinary ingredients. Once cooking wraps, you move to the terrace for lunch. The meal arrives in courses: your fresh pasta first, then tiramisu for dessert. Wines and oils from the vineyard accompany each course. The rhythm is intentionally slow—conversation and eating stretch the afternoon.

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