Montalcino: Pasta Class, Wine Tasting & Sunset Dinner

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Duration5h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN · IT

Mobile ticketAccepted

You Make the Pasta, Then Eat It Under the Tuscan Sky

You arrive at a Montalcino winery in the late afternoon, learn to hand-roll pinci pasta from scratch, tour the wine cellar with your guide, then sit down at sunset for a three-course dinner paired with four regional wines including Brunello di Montalcino. The experience includes round-trip pickup from the meeting point in town, an air-conditioned minivan, and a multilingual guide who stays with you through the whole evening.

Step-by-step itinerary

Winery visit with pasta and wine tasting

Meet at ARTEMISIA VIAGGI office
Transfer to Montalcino by car
Learn to make traditional pasta
Visit the wine cellar
Dinner with three-course menu
Taste five wines with producer
Return to meeting point

The Experience

The minivan picks you up in the late afternoon and drives you out to the winery in Montalcino, about 45 minutes south of Siena. You're not here to watch someone else work — you're kneading flour and eggs on a wooden board, learning to roll the pinci, the hand-rolled pasta that's been made the same way in this region for generations. It's simpler than it sounds and harder than you'd expect. Salt, local flour, a few eggs, and your hands do the rest.

While the dough rests, your guide takes you down into the wine cellar. This is where the real story lives — the Brunello di Montalcino aging in oak, the history of how this small town became known for one of Italy's most serious wines. You learn what makes Montalcino different from the rest of Chianti, why the soil matters, why the aging matters. It's not a lecture; it's a conversation with someone who knows the place.

As the light starts to turn gold, you sit down at a table with the producer. The pasta you made is in front of you, dressed simply with Tuscan sauce. Then comes the rest — a typical Tuscan appetizer, a second course, local cakes. And the wines: a tasting of four, moving through a Chianti and an Igt Poggio Apricale before landing on the Rosso di Montalcino and finally the Brunello. The producer pours, talks, answers questions. You eat slowly. The sun goes down.

After dinner, the driver takes you back to the meeting point in town. You're full, a little tired, and you've got flour under your fingernails.

What’s included

Round-trip shared minivan transfer from the meeting point in town.
multilingual guide (Italian and English).
hands-on pasta-making lesson with local flour and traditional pinci technique.
guided tour of the wine cellar.
three-course dinner prepared by a local cook (typical Tuscan appetizer, homemade pasta with Tuscan sauce, traditional Tuscan cakes).
tutored wine tasting of four regional wines (Chianti, Igt Poggio Apricale, Rosso di Montalcino, Brunello di Montalcino).
all beverages during dinner.

Operated by ARTEMISIA VIAGGI SRL

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to cook something with your hands, taste serious wine, and eat dinner in a real place where the producer sits at your table — the small group size and fixed timing are what make an evening in a working winery feel personal instead of rushed.