- Chocolate making experience in Tuscany - Visit to a chocolate factory in Tuscany - Tasting of chocolate products -
Hands-on experience in a chocolate workshop in Tuscany:
Preparation of chocolate delicacies and tasting of products


The most exquisite day-tour in Tuscany
Spend 2 hours in a famous chocolate workshop between Pisa and Florence
and create your own products. Then taste them!



Making chocolate eggs



Making your own pieces



It all starts with the tempering



Finishing the delicacies

 



Chocolate creations at the factory in Pisa

The newest jewel among local produce of Tuscany is chocolate. Tuscan chocolate makers got the best producers in Italy over the last ten years and right in the areas of our activity you can visit some small family-run factories that produce unbelievable delicacies.

Arianna & Friends organizes half-day chocolate tasting tours dedicated to descovering the origins and the secrets of the different cocoa blends and to tasting the unforgettable!


Unforgettable hands-on experience in a small chocolate workshop in San Miniato

Our tour leader meets you at your premises or at an agreed meeting point and takes you to a small chocolate workshop in San Miniato, between Pisa and Florence. Here, a famous local chocolate maker shows you the working rooms, where the cocoa is turned into fine chocolate creations thanks to the use of selected tasty ingredients.

The visit to the chocolate workshop starts with an introduction to the world of cocoa and chocolate and goes through an in-depth explanation of several procedures to reach the most refined chocolate delicacies.

After theory, a hands-on practical experience in the chocolate workshop begins. With the help and teaching of the expert maitre, you start familiarizing with chocolate and learn how to temper it. Then you start creating and moulding easy objects of chocolate until you finally pass to more complicated stuffed chocolate bonbons and decorations with liquid warm chocolate.

Meanwhile you taste all your unique creations and learn how to appreciate all features of the different cocoa blends.

This activity is ideal for groups and families with children!

Arianna & Friends organizes this hands-on experience for private parties of up to 6-8 people in a small workshop near San Miniato.

 

Chocolate tasting tour for groups
in a factory in Pisa

For groups of 10 or more people we organize a chocolate tasting tour in a world famous chocolate factory near Pisa: after a visit to the working rooms you are given an introduction to the world of chocolate and chocolate tasting, you assist to a demonstration on how to work and mould chocolate and you taste over 10 different chocolate products.
A hands-on experience in these premises is also possible at different rates. Ask for a quotation.



Used tools


Candid orange with chocolate

What they say about Tuscan chocolate


Rates and enquiries

PRIVATE HANDS-ON CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE IN THE SMALL CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP IN SAN MINIATO - TUSCANY

- RATES 2010 - INDIVIDUAL PARTIES ONLY -

45
per person on a base of 8 people


60
per person on a base of 6 people

90
per person on a base of 4 people

130
per person on a base of 2 people


Rates include the visit to the workshop, hands-on experience, disposable aprons and gloves, chocolate tasting and a personal English speaking tour leader (also German, Spanish, French, Italian or Russian available).
Rates do not include transportation.


EXTRAS:
Full lunch in excellent restaurant in the hills of San Miniato:

€ 30 per person
€ 18 children 4-12 years old



GROUP CHOCOLATE TASTING TOUR
IN THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY IN PISA

- RATES 2010 - GROUPS ONLY -

40
per person on a base of 10 people

35
per person on a base of 20-30 people

€ 15
Children 4-12 years old


Rates include the visit to the workshop, chocolate tasting and a personal English speaking tour leader (also German, Spanish, French, Italian or Russian available).
Rates do not include transportation.


EXTRAS:
Full lunch in excellent restaurant in Pisa:

€ 35 per person
€ 18 children 4-12 years old



HANDS-ON CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE IN THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY IN PISA - TUSCANY

- INDIVIDUAL PARTIES AND GROUPS -

A hands-on chocolate experience in the chocolate factory in Pisa is also possibile at different rates. Ask for a quotation


Rates do not include transportation.

TRANSPORTATION
If you drive
If you do not drive
If you like driving you can rent a car or drive your own car to the destination or to an agreed meeting point.

Our tour leader can also meet you at your premises. If your holiday house/hotel is more than 70 kms from the premises of our Travel Agency in Peccioli (Pisa area) and you want to meet the tour leader where you are staying, please consider a 20 Eur surcharge on the total price for the tour leader transfer.

In case you prefer not to drive we can book you a car/minivan or bus with personal chauffeur. Please specify it in the booking form.


 

 

 

Testimonials

COMMENTS OF OUR GUESTS

This is an email we received on 28th July 2009 from Sharon from the US, who spent a week in Giuseppe's agriturismo doing a lot of our activities:

Arianna, thank you! I hope, by now, that you and the team have recovered from the Bocelli concert!

I'm sorry not to have written back before now, but we have been very busy putting life and the businesses back in order upon our return.

We had the best, best time, and I have already begun giving out your business cards to friends and acquaintances who have inquired. We all feel that we got to know the area of Tuscany rather well during our stay, and could not have thought of a way to make the trip better.

No vacation will ever quite be the same, as my standards have now changed because of Arianna and Friend's great offering of activities.

Although the family cannot agree on any ONE activity we felt was our favorite, we all agree that the San Minato day of chocolate, Lee's bio-dynamic winery, and the truffle-hunting was probably our most memorable day as a whole.

Thank you, again, for helping me to be a hero within the family. If you or your team are ever in Southern California, you'll always have a place to stay.

Please give our heartfelt greeting to Massimo and the rest!
XO
Sharon

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CHOCOLATE TASTING TOUR IN TUSCANY

 

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