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Florence Cheese Making: Wine, Food, & Fun!
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Overview
Florence: Mozzarella Cheese Making with Wine and Food Tastings offers a delicious dive into Italian culinary traditions. This is more than just a cooking class; it’s a hands-on food experience in the heart of Florence.
Under the guidance of a skilled cheese maker, visitors will learn to craft fresh mozzarella, creamy burrata, and delicate stracciatella. The experience begins with a welcome glass of Prosecco, setting the stage for a fun and educational culinary adventure. Participants will transform simple curds into various cheese shapes, including bocconcini, nodini, and treccine.
Located in a rustic-chic venue in Florence's city center, the class size is limited to 12 guests. This ensures a personal and immersive experience, complete with music, laughter, and plenty of cheese. Participants will enjoy creative pairings, such as stracciatella with bottarga and lemon zest, alongside a guided tasting of organic and conventional Tuscan wines. 
Highlights
Make Fresh Mozzarella: Learn to make mozzarella, burrata, and stracciatella cheese from scratch with expert guidance.
Taste Tuscan Wines: Enjoy a guided wine tasting featuring a selection of organic and conventional Tuscan wines.
Small Group Setting: Experience a personal and intimate class with a maximum of 12 participants.
Enjoy Food Pairings: Taste your handmade cheeses alongside creative seasonal dishes.
Sentiment Analysis
Customers generally enjoy the hands-on cheese-making class and wine tasting, praising the fun atmosphere and knowledgeable instructors. While some desire more detailed instructions and easier-to-find location, the overall experience is rated positively.
Customers love learning to make different types of cheese, like mozzarella and burrata.
Many people enjoy the wine tasting and the food pairings with the cheese.
Reviewers say the class is fun and that the teachers are helpful and friendly.
Visitors appreciate the small group size, which makes the experience more personal.
Some people wished for more detailed instructions during the cheese-making process.
A few reviewers mentioned that the location was a bit difficult to find.
The Journey
Rustic-Chic Location in Florence City Center
The starting point of the mozzarella-making class, this location sets the tone for an organic and top-notch culinary experience in the heart of Florence. It is the meeting point where the adventure begins with a glass of Prosecco.
Simbiosi Kitchen
The kitchen where you will learn secrets and enjoy creative pairings alongside your handmade cheeses, enhancing the overall culinary experience. It features creative dishes and seasonal ingredients.
Tuscan Wine Region (Wines tasted during the experience)
While the exact vineyard isn't specified, the wine tasting features a curated selection of organic and conventional Tuscan wines, allowing participants to savor and debate their favorites. It complements the cheese creations and adds to the overall tasting experience.
Know Before You Go
This experience includes surprise tastings and wine pairings, a hands-on workshop to make mozzarella cheese, burrata, and stracciatella, a professional English-speaking cheese maker, tastings of different types of cheese (mozzarella, treccine, nodini), and a welcome drink with Prosecco. This experience excludes pickup and drop-off, so you need to meet at the address mentioned. The group is limited to 12 people. This experience takes place in central Florence at a rustic-chic location.
Hot Tip
Some people had issues finding the location, so make sure to arrive 10-15 minutes early. This will allow you time to find the place, so you don't miss out on the welcome glass of Prosecco.
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