Saffron Cooking Class with Wine Tasting in San Gimignano

Enjoy a Tuscan Saffron Cooking Class!

The Saffron DOP cooking class starts with a short introduction to our farm, in front of our vineyard, one of the oldest in San Gimignano. Then you are taken to our family kitchen to learn the secrets of this typical and traditional product of San Gimignano. Together we prepare a saffron-based dessert, a saffron-based homemade pasta, a saffron-based meat course and antipasti. At the end of the class, relax in one of our private and exclusive rooms or in our garden, enjoying everything you cooked and tasting our organic and biodynamic wines and extra virgin olive oils.

What is included

• Arrival at the farm and welcome by the farmer
• Saffron Cooking Class in family kitchen
• Introduction to our organic and biodynamic products
• Wine tasting (4 wines)
• Olive oil tasting (6 kinds of extra virgin olive oils)
• Tasting the Saffron-based dessert, a saffron-based homemade pasta, a saffron-based meat course, and antipasti

What’s Not Included

• Transportation to the farm
• Gratuities

Itinerary

1. Welcome – Arrival at the farm and a short introduction in front of the vineyard
2. Saffron Cooking Class – Prepare a saffron dessert, homemade pasta, a meat course and antipasti in the family kitchen
3. The Meal – Enjoy everything you cooked in a private room or the garden
4. Tasting – 4 organic and biodynamic wines and 6 extra virgin olive oils alongside

Highlights

A San Gimignano specialty in your hands. Saffron is a typical and traditional product of the town, and the class shows you how to cook with it.

A full menu built around it. A dessert, homemade pasta, a meat course and antipasti, prepared in a real family kitchen.

Wine and olive oil alongside. Four organic and biodynamic wines and six extra virgin olive oils turn the meal into a full tasting.

A setting to match. Eat in a private and exclusive room or the garden, at a farm facing one of San Gimignano’s oldest vineyards.

Meeting point

• After booking we will send all the details of the farm, location (meeting point) and contact.