Description: The hands-on course covers traditional, home-style Tuscan and Italian recipes to enjoy the wonderfully intense flavours & freshness of traditional Italian dishes cooked in an evocative stone farmhouse in the hills of Chianti, surrounded by vineyard & olivegroves.
Participants cook and eat dishes prepared using fresh, natural ingredients. A complete meal (5 recipes) such as appetizers, a pasta dish, a vegetable or meat dish and then a dessert is prepared every day and is accompanied by the wine which best complements it.
We also held classes for family with kids.

Duration: Approx 5 hours.

Description: Guided visit to 2 wineries, we will take you todiscover the Chianti Classico wines and Tuscan oil, thenback to Podere Le Rose (Toscana Mia home) for lunch, for eating typical Italian products, tastingand learning how to serve various typical products.
Then we drive you to a second winery where you can enjoy your wine and oil tasting

Duration: Approx 7 hours.

Description: Guided visit to 1 winery where you will learn all about wines, from their origin to today's days. We will take you todiscover the Chianti Classico wines and Tuscan oil. Then back to Podere Le Rose (Toscana Mia home) for the meal, for eatingtypical Italian products, tastingand learning how to serve extravergin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, bread, Italian cheeses (pecorino, parmigiano, mozzarella di bufala, ricotta ect.), salami (Tuscan salami, finocchiona), Tuscan prosciutto, Tuscan bread ,focaccia and typical Tuscan dessert (Cantucci with Vin Santo)

Duration: Approx 4 hours.

Description: We will take you todiscover an Italian open market. Discover with us Italian cheese, salami, prosciutto , vegetables, fruit, kitchen and home stuff, clothing and shoes or antiquities or artisans products , depending on the chosen market. We stop for a classic coffee break in a typical coffee or wine shop. Then we drive back to Podere Le Rose (Toscana Mia home) for the meal, for eatingtypical Italian products, tastingand learning how to serve various typical products

Duration: Approx 5 hours.

Description: We start our easy walking in Podere Le Rose organic garden to discover aromatic herbs, different varieties of olive trees, with explanation about how to recognize them and use them. Then we continue our walk through vineyards discovering different vine trees and we reach a "boutique winery" familiar estate where you can enjoy your wine and oil tasting in their garden. We come back to Podere Le Rose (Toscana Mia home) for a meal, for eatingtypical Italian products, tastingand learning how to serve various typical products

Duration: Approx 4 hours.

Description: Lesson on Italian olive oil with explanations on the varieties of olive trees, olive harvest, olive oil production . We walk and see country people during olive harvest to learn how they pick up olives.
Then enjoy a visit to an olive oil mill to discover the methods of oil production, traditional with granite stones and modern machines.We come back to our home for a meal, for eatingtypical Italian products, tastingand learning how to serve various typical products

Duration: Approx 4 hours.