PASTA COURSE - CHIANTI COOKING CLASS
A unique experience for everybody, for wine, art and food lovers, to approach and live the marvellous world of the Tuscan. You will begin with our cooking class, crafting real italian pasta, then you will have a great wine tasting of our TOP selected wines, lunch with your prepared dishes and visit of the amazing Abbey of Badia a Passignano, land of villages par excellence that is certainly central Italy, the undisputed homeland of wine, art and good living
Program of the day
10:00
10:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Meeting at the La Bottega della Scuderia
Fresh Pasta Course: During the course the partecipants prepare the dough with which they will learn how to make hand-made pici, ravioli and maltagliati. Additionally the partecipants learn how to prepare pasta sauces and also how to prepare homemade gelato.
Example of a Menù:
- Pici fatti a mano all’aglione - Handmade pici with garlic sauce
- Maltagliati al ragù di salsiccia – Maltagliati pasta with sausage ragù
- Ravioli ricotta e spinaci – Ravioli with ricotta cheese and spinaches
- Dessert: Tiramisù
Notes: Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free menus are available upon request. Please advise intolerances
Luxury Wines and Olive Oil Tasting: Inside our cellar dating back to the end of the 1400s just in front of the Abbey, you will taste extra virgin olive oil and a selection of great wines from Tuscany and Italy: Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Bolgheri Superiore, Barolo, Barbaresco, Amarone. We will introduce you to the tasting techniques, the different production areas and the reason why our wines and our olive oil have a relevant importance in the world.
We will explain the whole wine process from the soil to production, from destemming to fermentation, from vinification in steel and barrels to bottling. You also have the possibility to buy and ship all our varieties of wines and olive oil all over the world.
Lunch with your prepared dishes: At the end of the course the partecipants will lunch with the prepared dishes at the Ristoro L’Antica Scuderia, the splendid restaurant located in front of the Abbey overlooking the vineyards
Tour of the Badia di Passignano with the Monks, also called the Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano that is a historic Benedictine abbey located atop a scenic hilltop, surrounded by cypresses. The abbey became one of the major sites of theVallombrosan order and itself a wealthy landowner by the mid-14th century. The refectory houses frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his brother Davide. The frescoes have been much restored over the last century.
10:00
10:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Meeting at the La Bottega della Scuderia
Fresh Pasta Course: During the course the partecipants prepare the dough with which they will learn how to make hand-made pici, ravioli and maltagliati. Additionally the partecipants learn how to prepare pasta sauces and also how to prepare homemade gelato.
Example of a Menù:
- Pici fatti a mano all’aglione - Handmade pici with garlic sauce
- Maltagliati al ragù di salsiccia – Maltagliati pasta with sausage ragù
- Ravioli ricotta e spinaci – Ravioli with ricotta cheese and spinaches
- Dessert: Tiramisù
Notes: Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free menus are available upon request. Please advise intolerances
Luxury Wines and Olive Oil Tasting: Inside our cellar dating back to the end of the 1400s just in front of the Abbey, you will taste extra virgin olive oil and a selection of great wines from Tuscany and Italy: Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Bolgheri Superiore, Barolo, Barbaresco, Amarone. We will introduce you to the tasting techniques, the different production areas and the reason why our wines and our olive oil have a relevant importance in the world.
We will explain the whole wine process from the soil to production, from destemming to fermentation, from vinification in steel and barrels to bottling. You also have the possibility to buy and ship all our varieties of wines and olive oil all over the world.
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Lunch with your prepared dishes: At the end of the course the partecipants will lunch with the prepared dishes at the Ristoro L’Antica Scuderia, the splendid restaurant located in front of the Abbey overlooking the vineyards
Tour of the Badia di Passignano with the Monks, also called the Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano that is a historic Benedictine abbey located atop a scenic hilltop, surrounded by cypresses. The abbey became one of the major sites of theVallombrosan order and itself a wealthy landowner by the mid-14th century. The refectory houses frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his brother Davide. The frescoes have been much restored over the last century.