Wine Tasting & Tour

Tenuta del Palagio winery organizes Wine Experiences and Wine Tasting with snacks. All packages include a guided tour of the winery,

Below you can find our options for private / small groups and large groups.

–Wine Tasting with tour for private and small groups (under 15 guests)–

Prices per person. Possible for a minimum of 2 guests. Possible on demand from 10 AM to 6 PM. Reservation required 12 hours in advance by email info@tenutadelpalagio.it

Option ZERO – Euro 18,00  – 60 minutes with visit ( 3 Wines to taste )

White Tuscan wine at the customer’s choice, Chianti Classico, Chianti Classico Riserva, Bruschette and tasting of our monovarietal oils, Pecorino Dop Fresco, Pecorino Dop, Pecorino with truffles and goat cheese, all served with our peppers jelly and jams with chocolat, at the end our limoncello and wine spirits.

Option UNO – Euro 21,00  – 75 minutes with visit ( 4 Wines to taste )

White Tuscan wine at the customer’s choice, Chianti Classico, Chianti Classico Riserva, Supertuscan, Bruschette and tasting of our monovarietal oils, Fresh Dop Pecorino, Seasoned Dop Pecorino, Pecorino with truffles and goat cheese, all served with our peppers jelly and jams with chocolat, at the end our limoncello and wine spirits.

Option DUE – Euro 25,00  – 90 minutes with visit ( 5 Wines to taste )

White Tuscan wine at the customer’s choice, Chianti Classico, Chianti Classico Riserva, Supertuscan, Bruschette and tasting of our monovarietal oils, Fresh Dop Pecorino, Seasoned Dop Pecorino, Pecorino with truffles and goat cheese, all served with our peppers jelly and jams with chocolat, home made biscuits with almonds with one of our Dessert wines, at the end our limoncello and wine spirits.

Option TRE – Euro 32,00  – 120 minutes with visit ( 6 Wines to taste )

White Tuscan wine at the customer’s choice, Chianti Classico, Chianti Classico Riserva, 2 Supertuscan wines , Bruschette and tasting of our monovarietal oils, Fresh Dop Pecorino, Seasoned Dop Pecorino, Pecorino with truffles and goat cheese, all served with our peppers jelly and jams with chocolat, Tuscan charcuterie board, home made biscuits with almonds with one of our Dessert wines, at the end our limoncello and wine spirits.

–A Real Tuscan Wine Experience–

The Wine Experiences are the evolution of the classic Wine Tasting.
They are offered for small groups and require at least four hours or more.
Wine Experiences are a full immersion in the wine making with an hour-long lesson, a visit to the cellars and vineyards of about 30 minutes.  During the Exp we will also talk about extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, wine spirits, In the second part Followed by a rich tasting with 8-10 wines accompanied by Tuscan food.
It is possible to choose a wine experience with snacks or with a light lunch, or with a rich 4 courses Tuscan meal.
They are scheduled every day starting at 10.30, from Monday to Saturday.
In summer they are sometimes organized in the afternoon at sunset.
In summer they are sometimes organized in the afternoon at sunset.
In the summer season all the Wine Exps are held in the garden and in the courtyard.  Tenuta del Palagio can also arrange transport to get here from your hotel or wherever you are within 50km of our wine estate.  Reservation and prepayment is required 12 hours in advance by email info@tenutadelpalagio.it

    A REAL TUSCAN WINE EXPERIENCE – 50 €
4 hours
Wine Experience with: welcome drink, wine lesson and tour of the cellar, taste of 8 wines, with 10 different Tuscan cheeses, crostini, biscuits, bruschette with extra virgin olive oil, education with taste of 3 oils, balsamic vinegar education. Here you find more than 540 reviews https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/350915

A REAL TUSCAN WINE EXPERIENCE, level 2 – 60 €
4,5 hours
Wine Experience with: welcome drink, wine lesson and tour of the cellar,  taste of 10 wines,  light lunch with 10 different Tuscan cheeses, crostini, board with 8 different Tuscan salami, biscuits, bruschette with extra virgin olive oil, education with taste of 3 oils, balsamic vinegar education.    Here you find more than 1200 reviews https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/393845

A REAL TUSCAN WINE & FOOD EXPERIENCE – 75 €
5,5 hrs
Wine Experience with: welcome drink, wine lesson and tour of the cellar and full lunch/dinner, taste of 10 wines, light lunch with 10 different Tuscan cheeses, crostini, board with 8 different Tuscan salami, salted and sweet biscuits, bruschette with extra virgin olive oil, education with taste of 3 oils, balsamic vinegar education. Stuffed Pasta Course, Meat Course, Dessert.                                                      Here you find more than 550 reviews https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/550794

 

–Wine tasting for large groups, from 15 people up to 80 guests–

The prices are inclusive of the visit, brochures available in four different languages and service to the tables (except # 0).

In case there are more different groups, the tastings are organizes in different places.

For each proposal are included fresh bread and natural water.

All the services could be done from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from monday to saturday.

Services on sunday or public holidays will be possible with an extra charge of 20%.

Choose your Wine Tasting

    • Pinot Grigio
    • Tuscan Red Wine
    • Chianti Classico
  • Bruschette (tuscan toast bread with garlic aroma and fine extra vergin oil) with 3 different Extra Virgin olive oil Dop Chianti Classico

    • Welcome drink with Rosa Rosae
    • Tuscan White wine
    • Tuscan Red wine igt
    • Chianti Classico
    • Chianti Classico Riserva
    • Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
    • Ham, Salame, Finocchiona, Mortadella, Capocollo, coldcut made by Falorni in Greve
    • Pecorino cheese from Montalcino with our pepper jellys (red and yellow)
    • Scamorza cheese with taste of balsamic vinegar 8 years old
    • Bruschette (tuscan toast bread with garlic aroma and fine extra vergin oil) with 3 different Extra Virgin olive oil Dop Chianti Classico
    • Bruschette crostoni with fresh tomatoes and basil
    • Crostini with mousse of Lardo di Colonnata with acacia honey
    • Crostini with salami with chilli, provola cheese and cherry tomato
    • Local biscuits with almond
  • Vinsanto doc Chianti Classico

    • Professional tasting of dessert wines with theorical part with visit of the exclusive cellar Vinsantaia where are aged our “gold liquid honeys”
    • Pinot Grigio 2018 – late harvest with Pecorino Toscano Dop seasoned 3 months
    • “Lacrime di Sole” 2018 – Petit Manseng late harvest with Pecorino Toscano Dop seasoned 6 months
    • “L’Oro di Brumaio” 2011  Gewurz Traminer late harvest with Copate di Siena
    • Vinsanto 1995 dry with tuscan flowery rind cheese
    • Vinsanto 2012 sweet with almond biscuits handmade by the famous bakery Mattei in Prato
  • Vinsanto 2005 Riserva “passito” 6 months with home made creme brulèe

    • The tasting includes 6 different pecorini cheese products from by the famous Busti diary combined with honey and mustard, accompanied by our 4 wines. An expert provide to give informations about the different products.
    • Pecorino di Transumanza from Garfagnana Mountain
    • Pecorino “brillo” aged in the skin of fermented grapes
    • Pecorino pasture from Chianti Hills
    • Pecorino from Pienza
    • Raw milk Pecorino “Remo”
    • Pecorino di “Fossa”
    • Acacia honey, orange honey, Chestnut honey, Lavander Honey, Sunflowers honey
    • Chianti Classico mostard , Vin Santo mostard
    • Red pepper mostard, Tropea’s onions mostard
    • Rosso Castello Il Palagio
    • Chianti Classico Castello Il Palagio
    • Pinot Grigio Late Harvest
  • “Lacrime di Sole” 2018 – Petit Manseng Late Harvest

    • Welcome drink with Rosa Rosae
    • Pinot Grigio late harvest
    • Tuscan Red wine igt
    • Chianti Classico
    • Chianti Classico Riserva
    • Pecorino cheese from Montalcino with our pepper jellys (red and yellow)
    • Scamorza cheese with taste of balsamic vinegar 5 years old
    • Bruschette with Olio Dop Chianti Classico, Moraiole and Frantoiane olives
    • Bruschette with extra virgin olive oil infused with chilli
  • Cantuccini biscuits with almond with Vinsanto doc Chianti Classico

    • Welcome drink with Rosè or White wine or Brut
    • Tuscan White wine
    • Tuscan Red wine
    • Chianti Classico
    • Chianti Classico Riserva
    • Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
    • Montefolchi Merlot “Supertuscan”
    • 3 months seasoned pecorino cheese from Montalcino with our red pepper jelly
    • 6 months seasoned pecorino cheese from Pienza with our yellow pepper jelly
    • Scamorza cheese with taste of balsamic vinegar 12 years old
    • Salame grevigiano, Finocchiona toscana, Tuscan ham, Soprassata, Mortadella e Capocollo (salami from Falorni)
    • Bruschette (tuscan toast bread with garlic aroma and fine extra vergin oil) with 3 different Extra Virgin olive oil Dop Chianti Classico
    • Crostini with sauce of black truffle and drop of our Extra Virgin Olive Oil infused with white truffle from San Miniato
    • Crostini with mousse of Lardo di Colonnata with acacia honey
    • Crostini with fresh cherry tomatoes, basil, garlic, olio dop Chianti Classico
    • Crostini with salami with chilli, provola cheese and cherry tomato
    • Local biscuits with almond, with figs
  • Vinsanto doc Chianti Classico

    • Professional tasting of fine extra vergine olive oil with theorical part
    • DOP Chianti Classico Selection of leccine olives,
    • DOP Chianti Classico Selection of moraiole olives,
    • DOP Chianti Classico Selection of frantojane olives,
    • DOP Chianti Classico Selection of Madonna dell’Impruneta olives,
    • Extra virgin olive oil Castello Il Palagio
    • Polifenolio – healty extra virgin olive oil
  • At the end snacks with cheese and Chianti Classico and Bruschette

    • The tasting includes 12 different salami made by the famous Falorni butcher of Greve. The salami are served with the best breads produced by Il Panaio from Mercatale. Are served also 3 red wines from our cellar. An expert provide to give informations about the different products.
    • Ham from Chianti
    • Ham of wild boar
    • Ham of Cinta senese pork
    • “Lonzino o Capocollo”
    • Salamino of chianino beef
    • Salamino with Chianti Classico
    • Salami with fennel seeds
    • Salami of cinta senese pig
    • Salami of wild boar
    • Finocchiata of Montefioralle
    • Gerbolo del Chianti
    • Soppressata with orange and lemon rindts
    • Loaf with walnuts, Leaf with corn, Focaccia with olio dop Chianti Classico , Tuscan bread baked in the wood oven, Bread with potatoes and chestnut, baguette with tomatoes
    • Sauvignon Blanc
    • Tuscan Red wine
  • Chianti Classico
  • Merlot Montefolchi Supertuscan

    • Welcome drink with Rosa Rosae
    • Pinot Grigio Late Harvest
    • Chianti Classico Castello Il Palagio
    • Chianti Classico Riserva
    • Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
    • Chianti Classico Castello Il Palagio
    • Pecorino cheese from Montalcino with our pepper jellys (red and yellow)
    • Scamorza cheese with taste of balsamic vinegar 8 years old
    • Salame grevigiano, Finocchiona toscana e Capocollo (salami from Falorni)
    • Bruschette with Olio Dop Chianti Classico, Moraiole and Frantoiane olives
    • Bruschette with extra virgin olive oil infused with chilli
  • Cantuccini biscuits with almond with Vinsanto doc Chianti Classico

    • Welcome drink with Rosa Rosae
    • Brut Il Palagio served with fried pasta (coccoli)
    • White wine Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon or Chardonnay
    • Tuscan Red Wine i.g.t. Palagio i.g.t.
    • Chianti Classico
    • Chianti Classico Riserva
    • Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
    • Campolese Sangiovese 100% supertuscan barrique
    • Montefolchi Merlot 100% supertuscan barrique
    • 3 months seasoned pecorino cheese from Montalcino with our red pepper jelly
    • 6 months seasoned pecorino cheese from Pienza with our yellow pepper jelly
    • 6 months seasoned pecorino in the grapes steams with our onions jelly with truffle
    • Scamorza cheese with taste of balsamic vinegar 12 years old
    • Salame grevigiano, Finocchiona toscana, Tuscan ham, Soprassata, Mortadella e Capocollo (salami from Falorni)
    • Bruschette with Olio Dop Chianti Classico, Moraiole and Frantoiane olives
    • Bruschette with extra virgin olive oil infused with chilli
    • Crostini with sauce of black truffle and drop of our Extra Virgin Olive Oil infused with white truffle from San Miniato
    • Crostini with mousse of Lardo di Colonnata with acacia honey
    • Crostini with fresh cherry tomatoes, basil, garlic, olio dop Chianti Classico
    • Crostini with salami with chilli, provola cheese and cherry tomato
    • Cantuccini biscuits with almond and Black Berry Tart
  • Vinsanto doc Chianti Classico

    • Wine Class made by a famous Sommelier
    • Tasting of all our wines
    • Pinot Grigio Castello Il Palagio
    • Sauvignon Blanc Castello Il Palagio
    • Chardonnay Castello Il Palagio
    • Rosa Rosae Castello Il Palagio
    • Rosso Castello Il Palagio igt
    • Chianti Classico Castello Il Palagio
    • Chianti Classico Riserva Castello Il Palagio
    • Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
    • Curtifreda cabernet sauvignon supertuscan
    • Montefolchi merlot supertuscan
    • Campolese sangiovese supertuscan
    • Apoteosi cabernet sauvignon & sangiovese supertuscan
    • Grappa, Grappa Riserva ed acquavite d’uva canaiolo.
  • Snacks, Cheese, salami and focaccie

What happens during pasta class?
    • Our cook with an assitant who speak english, will learn how to prepare a good home made ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach. The “students” will prepare the ravioli with her and the sauce for it, which generally is a tomatoes and basil sauce or meat tuscan sauce. This part during approx 1 hr / 1hr 15 minutes.
    • After it, the Ravioli will be cooked and at the end students and chefs could eat together at the same table.
    • During lunch we serve salami, cheese, our wines, home made biscuits, and dessert wine.
    • Everything it is made in the garden of the winery, if bad time we go inside.
    • Of course no other peoples will present except your party and the “professors”.
    • If you like, we could offer also elegant apron with the name of the students, as gift.
    • Of course we need to know the names 3 weeks in advance.
  • The cost for each apron is 20 €

Book your Wine Tasting

Wine tasting & guided visits

Situated in the wonderful and unique hills of Chianti, ” Il Palagio” is one of the Tuscany’s most famous winery. The estate has 55 hectars of olive plantations and 28 hectars of vineyards are placed surrond the estate. The estate, has produced wine and oil of the finest quality for the past 300 years. The Family Miniati is owner of the estate from XVth century. The winery is highly interested in the growing phenomenon of enological tourism, for this reason some rooms in the farm have been restructured to organise wine and oil tastings there.

We can accommodate up to 100 people, but we can receive also privates and small party. Our company guarantee always exclusivity, so there will be just your group and no other when you will come here. Guided visits can be in English, German, French and… Italian, of course! If you book in advance, it is also possible to have interpreters for Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese language.

Private tours with tasting (with lunch or dinner) are possible every day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. – We ask the reservation within 2-3 days in advance.

If you don’t need a private tour but just only a tasting, you can come here every day in our wine shop from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to taste our wines. If you come in the morning is not necessary to book but if you arrive after 1.00 p.m. is better to book.

Every day,  at  10,30 P.M.. from monday to saturday we set a REAL TUSCAN WINE EXPERIENCE.  4-5 hours where you will discover some secrets of the wine making, plus explanations about the real balsamic vinegar, plus  extra virgin olive oil class.

Sometime the EXPERIENCES are planned also late morning or late afternoon, only on demand.

The WINE EXPERIENCES have a limited number of  guests.

A REAL TUSCAN WINE EXPERIENCE has 3 different levels : with snacks, with light lunch, with lunch or dinner.   Write to us for more informations  info@tenutadelpalagio.it

What you will see?

The Fermantation Cellar
In this cellar the grapes arrive just harvested. The months in which we use that winery are September and October. In these part of theyear the grapes ferment, releasing an incredible fruity scent in the air. Visitors who are in those months as well as you can see the various processes of wine, will also have the opportunity to smell the fresh grape must which will give life to our great wines. In this cellar the wines will keep until the following spring, when it will then be poured in the underground cellars for final maturation.

The Olive Oil Cellar
Before entering in the underground cellar is “required” to pass from orciaia, which is the room where we keep our “green gold” the extra virgin olive oil, which has received several awards all over the world. Inside the room called “orciaia” we store olive oil inside the century-old terracotta jars. In the same room, lots of photos illustrating the various stages of collection and pressing of olives.

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Wine Cellars “Barriccaia”
At the beginning of the aging cellar, we have the first barrique made expecially with american oak. Here we have the younger wines of our production.

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The “welcome” tasting
Also in the first part of the cellar is customary to serve a first wine from our cellar. Normally it is a rosé wine or one of our white, sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, pinot grigio.

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The barrels cellar
The wine cellars are located under the castle. Originally part of the cellar was a medieval dungeon. Today “prisoners” are oak barrels and barriques and still tuns used to age our wines. Tour guides will be happy to give you informations about our wines and oils. Another cellar you can visit is the olive oil cellar, called “orciaia”. In this room we keep in terracotta jars our “green gold” which has received several awards all over the world. You may request to tour the vineyards and olive groves to see the work involved in planting, growing and harvesting and talk with our wine and olive masters.

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The Garden
If the weather is good it may be possible to take a walk in the garden

The cellar of the XVIth century
This is the older part of the cellar which was a medieval dungeon. Today “prisoners” are oak barrels and barriques and still tuns used to age our wines. Tour guides will be happy to give you informations about our wines and oils.

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Optional visit to the vineyards, vinsantaia and the olive mill
Being able to have more time you can also make visits: to the vineyards, to the olive groves, to the “vinsantaia”, where the grapes are dried and stored and where the barrels stay many years for the aging our most prestigious, the olive mill – 3 km from the winery. For these optional visits must be informed well in advance of time. For these optional visits must be informed well in advance of time.

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The tasting
Finally, after the guided visit there is the wine tasting. Our staff will give you some brochures with technical information about our products. 3 or 4 wines (can be also more!) will be served at the tables with some snacks like pecorino cheese made by Busti, salami and ham made by Falorni, bruschetta with our extra virgin olive oil, bread with some typical sauces, mostards, crostinis. In the end, Vinsanto, the typical dessert wine of the area, and cantuccini, the biscuits with almonds, can be served. On request we can also organise afternoon snacks, light lunch, picnic, and unforgettable dinners.