Holiday rentals in San Gimignano

What we propose is an itinerary in our daily life, starting from the vineyards and the olives, for reaching our characteristic cellar made of cement tanks, where you can participate to the process of vinification of Chianti, Vernaccia and IGT. It ends up at the “Vinsantaia”, where we taste together our wines!

When all the people of the Group arrive at the winery, they have to know each other to create the right atmosphere and friendship and i'll explain how consist the wine-experience. In the beginning, will take a short walk among the vineyards and olive trees. You'll see the very old vines, around 90 years and the "baby" vines, 3 years old. After you'll discover 3 different cellars, The Vinsantaia, the place where the Vinsanto (dessert wine) is made, La Tinaia where the Chianti DOCG and SuperTuscan ferment and the last is the Barriccaia, a 300 years old cellar totally underground, where the wine age in french oak. At the end you'll taste 5 different wines with typical salami, prosciutto, pecorino cheese, bruschetta with fresh tomato from our organic garden and cantuccini cookies. If you have any food restrictions/allergy, please let me know in advance. Book this experience, 15% discount if you buy wines!! You'll jump into the journey of a professional winemaker. You'll be full involved in the wine-experience, lots of information and at the end of the experience you have lots of great memories, good knowledge about wines and lots of smile on your face. Other things to note: All the vegetables that we use for the tasting come from our organic garden.

Cesani's Family and Staff will be pleased to welcome you at Cesani's Winery, located only 5 km from San Gimignano (Siena) in our professional tasting room or on the nice panoramic terrace where you can sit and taste our organic wines, introduced with competence and passion, giving you the opportunity to listen to the history, the producing process and the organoleptic features of all our products. You will taste 2 Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG white wine (the 1st Italian DOC wine in 1966), 1 Chianti Colli Senesi DOCG, 1 Rosso Toscano "Ciliegiolo" and "Luenzo" our best selection of Sangiovese. Tuscan Pecorino cheese and bruschette with our organic extra-virgin olive oil will be combined with all the wines. You will be guided also, in a visit of our simple but efficient estate cellar and make you discover that tradition and technology are for us, inseparable concepts. Simplicity and professionalism are the main features of high-quality wines. Other things to note The only way to reach us is by car; there are no public transportation from and to Pancole. Please note that this is an educational activity, not a lunch or dinner.

I really hope to receive lot a wine lovers which want to have an unique wine and olive oil experience. Welcome drink at the arrival, guided visit of the middle age cellar, in the garden followed by a walk in the vineyards and in the olive groves and finally rich wine tasting and nice home made 4 courses Tuscan lunch served in a charming place that you will love it. According with the season you can be part of the works in the vineyards or in in the cellar. All the seasons are good to visit us, obviously from March to November you can see the colours of our hills. very suggested September during the grape harvest, March, when we prune the vines and we press the dried grapes for the dessert wine Vin Santo, November when we pick the olives and we crush them. On summer you can do wonderful hike in the vineyards and maybe you can help to bottle the wine. Some days of the year it could be possible to do also a wine tasting from the barrels with our master of wine who will explain the secrets of the winemaking. If you love balsamic vinegar, we will introduce in its history ; you could try vinegar with different ageing. You will also discover the incredible flavour of the oil white truffle. If you want to have a bottle with your own label, let me know 12 hours in advance your name and surname and I will print the private label; you will choose the wine here. Me and my family wait you!