Wine tasting experience at your villa

A great experience for wine lovers visiting Tuscany who want to taste delicious local wines while staying home relaxed at their villa, maybe by the pool or in a charming veranda. We offer private wine tasting experiences with introduction to the winemaking traditions of Tuscany, serving 6 different wines with little snacks, all arranged by our experienced wine tour guide.

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La bella vita in Toscana

The most comfortable way to enjoy delicious wines while visiting our worderful Tuscany. You comfortably sit in the park of your villa, maybe in a panoramic veranda or by the pool, while our experienced wine tour guide gets to your villa and sets the table for all your party, choosing the most suitable space of your rented property. If your party is made of more that 7 people, an assistant/waiter will also serve during the experience. After preparing some little snacks to be paired with the wines for about 1 hour, our guide will give you a first introduction to the world of Tuscan wines. It is an informal yet very informative wine sampling experience, for which no previous knowledge on Italian wines is required. It is appropriate for all the people in your party!

A sampling session of 6 different wines

While giving you plenty of information on the features of local wines and telling you stories about great wineries, our guide will be happy to answer to all your questions and explain in detail any curiosity that you might have. One by one you will taste 6 different wines, starting from two whites (or one white and one rosee), one basic red, two aged reds, 1 top of the gamma red wine. Alternatively, one of the red wines can be substituted by a dessert wine. In this way you will enjoy a large spectrum of what is available in the region and you will be able to taste the several flavors and aromas. Each wine will be presented in detail with the help of a technical file for your reference. We offer two different option: a guided wine sampling accompanied by snacks or by a full meal. All food will be prepared onsite.

Wonderful moments with your beloved people

As the wine tasting experience goes towards more structured and full-bodied wines, you will have the chance to share with your people wonderful moments of learning and amusement in a spectacular setting. Our local wine expert will make sure that all the participants enjoy the experience, even if their previous knowledge on wines differs a lot. Before leaving, our staff will also clean up the kitchen and the table for roughly another hour. If you finally want to buy some other bottles of wine, a provision will be available.

Make your wine day in Tuscany a comfortable one at your villa!

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IMPORTANT: THIS IS WHAT WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO DO (in villa cooking classes and chef services)

• Please, make sure the owners/managers of the villa allow us to access the villa and the kitchen. Sometimes they do not welcome external cooks in their villa.
  • Please, make sure that we can access the villa at the time agreed, and/or at the time expressed in the confirmation voucher. Extra time spent waiting for someone to open the villa will be charged as extra fee.
  • Please, leave the kitchen clean and free from your personal belongings such as phones, sunglasses etc. So that the cooks can immediately start cooking, without losing precious time in cleaning or tidying up the kitchen. Extra time spent to clean the kitchen before the service starts, will be charged as extra
  • Please, make sure the kitchen is equipped with a suitable number of tableware for the number of people in your party.
  • Please, be in time at the table sticking to the starting time indicated at the moment of booking and/or in the confirmation voucher. Delay will be charged as extra.
  • Please, be informed that no long breaks among the dishes served are foreseen. For a regular service e consider a 5-8 minute time from the end of one course to the serving of the next one. Delay will be charged as extra.
  • If you have small kids and you want them to eat before you, this will delay the service of about 1 hour (service, cleaning, etc), so this extra hour will be charged as extra
  • If there are any food restrictions or allergies in your party, please share them with us at the moment of booking. It is important to know it in advance to assure everybody can eat without any risks or problems. Last minute changes are not possible
  • If you are interested in having a long dinner with speeches, singing and dancing, please inform us from the beginning and we will personalize the offer with a suitable quotation, as the service hours for the staff will be longer.
  • The extra charge for the delays as described above is 10 Euro/half an hour (20 Euro/hour) for each member of the staff present at the service

This is a list of specialties that you are likely to sample during this experience. Please, note that these are just some examples of what can be prepared. Our booking staff will send you detailed information.

Bruschettas

Bruschettas

A plate of mixed bruschettas, topped with fresh tomatoes, cheese and sausage or simply extra virgin olive oil. Bruschettas are very common appetizers in all Italy and in Tuscany they are commonly called crostini.

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Insalata di farro

Insalata di farro

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Mixed Tuscan appetizers

Mixed Tuscan appetizers

A plate of local prosciutto, salami and pecorino cheese is a typical appetizer in the Tuscan cooking tradition.

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Tuscan red wine

Tuscan red wine

The Tuscan soil provides a wide variety of red wines, from easy-to-drink young table wines to full-body and robust riservas. Tuscan red wines are often based on Sangiovese, Canaiolo, Ciliegiolo or Colorino grapes and sometimes on international grapes like Merlot, Cabernet or Syrah.

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Tuscan white wine

Tuscan white wine

Tuscan white wines are often based on a typical grape called Vermentino, which provides strong minerality and freshness to the wines made with it. Other very common grapes for white wines in Tuscany are Trebbiano and Malvasia.

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Wine and Tuscan buffet

Wine and Tuscan buffet

Together with a wide gamma of wines, from young and fresh white wines to robust red riservas, we serve a whole buffet of Tuscan specialties that include Tuscan cold meats, cheese, extra virgin olive oil and farro salad.

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For this service you will meet some of the Tuscan friends involved in your wine tasting experience. Please, see below which friends you are likely to encounter.

Massimo

guide

Massimo

Co-founder and owner at Arianna & Friends'

Ciao a tutti! It’s Massimo here. I’m the “first one” of the friends of Arianna in order of appearance, as we first met me when we were… ehm … at the high school! Well, the first “activities” we arranged together were those many teenagers do, like going to rock concerts (long live Metallica!), barbecuing, drinking inexpensive wine, mainly with no understanding of it. In over 25 years we became more serious adults; so serious that we finished university together and we then decided to start a business from scratch, back in 2007, in an area where nothing like this existed before. I am a natural born teacher, as I’ve always liked sharing knowledge on the beauties of the world with other people. When I started sharing the wisdom of the local cuisine with visitors to Tuscany or showing them the rooted traditions behind a wheel of local pecorino cheese, I realized how fantastic my job is. In fact I discovered that being a wine & food guide is a sophisticated way of being a good teacher, so I can’t help but love it! In the A&F team I’m the multi-language guide or assistant in all activities we offer, from cooking classes, to wine & food tours, from Italian language classes to vespa tours. In the low season I deal with the website development and content management. As I am very curious, I spend all my free time travelling all over the world and of course going on learning as much as I can: over the last few years I took part in several seminaries on extra virgin olive oil, I started a three-year course to become a sommelier, I experienced a professional training to become gelato maker and I decided to never give up in learning the Arabic language. Stay connected as we will soon come up with some new great ideas for your entertainment and enjoyment of our beautiful region! Ci vediamo in Toscana!

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Natalia

friend

Natalia

Natalia is a smart assistant at many of our cooking classes and chef services. Since 2014 she started helping our granny chefs in case of large groups. She is passionate and very precise and always ready to solve an issue with a big smile. Natalia grew up with the lovely Ukrainian recipes of her granny, which she likes sharing with all her Tuscan friends.

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