Archive
Thu, October 3, 2019
Digital Detox Reading & Writing Week with Louisa Young Availability: Check available events
Do you need peace and quiet, time and space, to get on with your reading, and perhaps your writing? Would you like delicious meals and wine and good company at the end of the day’s work? Maybe an award-winning author to have a look at what you’ve been working on, and offer words of advice? And support in keeping off the internet? Castello di Potentino is delighted to announce the Potentino Bookclub Reading and Writing Week 2019: a week of...
Mon, September 30, 2019
Monte Amiata Safari with Rudston Steward Availability: Check available events
Rudston Steward has been walking in Italy for over a decade. He was recently voted by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the 2018 Top Travel Specialists. Rudston has been a regular feature at Potentino for many years and Alexander has always wanted, but never managed to go on one of his safaris. It is only bookable through the Maremma Safari Club website. Questions If you have any questions before you book, do not hesitate to email us alexander.greene@potentino.com or telephone us...
Sun, September 22, 2019
Wine making & WSET Level 2 Course With Emily O'Hare (September 2019) Availability: Check available events
The best way to learn about wine is to participate in a harvest - Join us for our harvest this year - and feel the chapters of the WSET Level 2 study book come to life. At Castello di Potentino students of the WSET Level 2 residential course get out in the vineyard for a morning’s grape picking. And then head either into the winery to get involved in the pressing of the fruit, or head to the nearby Etruscan...
Sun, September 8, 2019
Wine Sense Wine WSET Level 1 Course With Emily O'Hare Availability: Check available events
This is a five-day (four night) residential course held in a beautifully restored medieval Tuscan castle at Castello di Potentino. Learn the essentials about wine with a special focus on the wines of Italy, following the globally recognised WSET approach. Eat simple meals in the dining room of the castle prepared using locally sourced ingredients and vegetables from Potentino's vegetable garden- celebrate the end of the course with a meal at Il Silene, cooked by Michelin-starred local chef Roberto Rossi. Participate in...
Fri, August 30, 2019
The Ponderosa & Thyme Clarity Retreat Availability: Check available events
Last year we had Katie and her team at Potentino for a wonderful retreat and this year they are coming back again to do something slightly different! We very much hope that you have a look at Katie's work- she is a kindred spirit and her retreats are magical. Do head over to her website if you would like to see all the information about it- a taster is below: Over the years Ponderosa & Thyme has become known for...
Sun, July 28, 2019
Shepherd’s Feast celebrating the Arrival of the Sheep at Potentino and the Cultural Traditions of the ‘ Transumanza’ Availability: Check available events
Potentino has been working with the cheesemakers Francesca and Lorenzo from Caseificio Murceti for a few years now and some of you will have enjoyed their pecorino and cheese-making demonstrations. Our first connection happened as I had been desperately seeking ricotta – real ricotta which they really do make. Most of what you find these days commercially is not technically ricotta as cream or milk is put into the mix for larger yields. Sheep’s cheese is generally much lighter and...
Sat, July 20, 2019
Pilates at Potentino- Patrice Munro in residence- July Availability: Check available events
Come to Potentino and place yourself in the hands of Pilates teacher Patrice Munro and come away with a new-found understanding of your body.
Patrice will be on hand at the castle to help you and will schedule classes during your stay. Come for a few days, for the whole week or just for a class. You should be able to leave Potentino with a programme of exercises that you can take home with you.
Sat, July 6, 2019
The Old School Kitchen: From the Etruscan Table to the Roman Banquet Availability: Check available events
A Culinary Retreat Exploring Ancient Etruscan and Roman Food Culture In The Heart of Tuscany
Join food archaeologist, Farrell Monaco, and visual story-teller, Saghar Setareh, for a 5-day live-in edible archaeology master class at a palatial medieval castle hidden in a valley in the Tuscan countryside as they explore the food history of Etruria and Rome from 800 BC to the Imperial Roman Era (AD 476). June 30 to July 6, 2019 – Monte Amiata (Tuscany), Italy.
Sun, June 30, 2019
Feast with The Old School Kitchen: Etruria Availability: Check available events
A Culinary Retreat and Feast Exploring Ancient Etruscan Food Culture and Archaeology In The Heart of Tuscany Join food archaeologist, Farrell Monaco, and vintner, Charlotte Horton, for a weekend Etruscan feast at a palatial Medieval castle hidden in the Tuscan countryside. Explore and indulge in the food history, art, and archaeology of Etruria from 900 BC to the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BC. The final night’s proceedings will close with a recreated extravagant and indulgent Etruscan feast,...
Tue, June 11, 2019
Thought for Food- Potentino unites with the Frontline Club to create a New International Symposium Availability: Check available events
7-11 June 2019; We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. David Attenborough Food is the basis of community and civilisation. Many of the world’s current problems can be ascribed to food systems and agricultural policy. The general public, politicians, and even businesses are becoming more conscious...
Sun, June 2, 2019
Renaissance Oil Painting Retreat with Timothy Allen Availability: Check available events
Join the American professional painter Timothy Allen for a luxury getaway at the Castello di Potentino: 7 days of painting from life with the goal of creating an oil portrait in a landscape…plus cooking, wine tasting and more.
Sun, May 26, 2019
Wine Sense Wine WSET Level 1 Course With Emily O'Hare (May 2019) Availability: Check available events
This is a four-day (five night) residential course held in a beautifully restored medieval Tuscan castle at Castello di Potentino. Learn the essentials about wine with a special focus on the wines of Italy, following the globally recognised WSET approach. Eat simple meals in the dining room of the castle prepared using locally sourced ingredients and vegetables from Potentino's vegetable garden- celebrate the end of the course with a meal at Il Silene, cooked by Michelin-starred local chef Roberto Rossi. Participate in...
Mon, May 20, 2019
Avi and Swati's Weekend of Regional Indian Cuisine Availability: Check available events
Why Learn to Cook Regional Indian Cuisine in Tuscany? Avi and Swati have been coming to Potentino for a few years now and while Avi cooks the most amazing Italian food (learnt over several years at the River Café in London) our fondest memories are of the husband and wife team cooking us all dinner when the guests have gone home- a real Indian meal. We hope you will come and join this special moment- a true Indian feast. We...
Mon, April 29, 2019
Scent and Scentability with Celia Lyttelton Availability: Check available events
Scent and Scentabilty with THE SCENT TRAIL author Celia Lyttelton. Explore your sense of smell and create your own perfumes whilst enjoying delicious aromatic food and wine tastings.
The four-day course at Castello di Potentino will be orchestrated by Celia Lyttelton; she is a scent critic and the author of THE SCENT TRAIL, How One Woman's quest for the Perfect Perfume Took Her Round the World. Published by Bantam and Penguin.
Fri, November 23, 2018
Digital Detox Reading & Writing Week with Louisa Young Availability: Check available events
Do you need peace and quiet, time and space, to get on with your reading, and perhaps your writing? Would you like delicious meals and wine and good company at the end of the day’s work? Maybe an award-winning author to have a look at what you’ve been working on, and offer words of advice? And support in keeping off the internet? Castello di Potentino is delighted to announce the Potentino Bookclub Reading and Writing Week 2019: a week of...
Sat, November 10, 2018
Terroir Tuscany - Culinary Retreat 2018 Availability: Check available events
Arlene Stein of Terroir Symposium and Charlotte Horton of Castello di Potentino will host a week-long culinary retreat uniting top chefs and food experts to look at rural logic in modern food practices.
Fri, October 19, 2018
Wine Sense Wine WSET Level 2 Course With Emily O'Hare Availability: Check available events
7-Day (8 night) residential Course, WSET level 2 course taught by Decanter's Emily O'Hare and, Food Workshop.This is a seven-day (eight-night) residential course held in a beautiful medieval Tuscan castle at Castello di Potentino during which you will study and take the WSET level 2 examination while enjoying all of what Tuscany has to offer. The course follows on from WSET level 1 (which is not essential). Enjoy yoga classes by the pool amongst ancient olive groves looking over Monte...
Sat, October 6, 2018
Wine Sense Wine WSET Level 1 Course With Emily O'Hare Availability: Check available events
This is a five-day residential course held in a beautifully restored medieval Tuscan castle at Castello di Potentino. Learn the essentials about wine with a special focus on the wines of Italy, following the globally recognised WSET approach. Eat fabulous food prepared by one of the UK’s top chefs from the River Café and Michelin starred local chef Roberto Rossi. Participate in morning food and wine pairing workshops and afternoon Masterclasses in pasta, risotto and Tuscan pork butchery. Enjoy optional daily yoga classes...
Sat, September 22, 2018
Renaissance Oil Painting Retreat with Timothy Allen Availability: Check available events
Join the American professional painter Timothy Allen for a luxury getaway at the Castello di Potentino: 7 days of painting from life with the goal of creating an oil portrait in a landscape…plus cooking, wine tasting and more.
Sat, September 15, 2018
The Goddess Uncorked Availability: Check available events
Calm your mind and come to your senses. Dive into artisan activities at the heart of Italian culture: wine, olive oil, bread, cheese and cooking.Relax and energize your body with yoga, massage, walking, swimming.Discover your creative feminine power. The organiser of this event is Eleanor Shannon, a wine sommelier/yoga teacher friend of ours, who lives nearby and has written about Potentino on her blog (UncorkedinItaly.com). We encouraged her to design and teach this course. For more information and to book...
Sat, June 9, 2018
The Goddess Uncorked Availability: Check available events
Calm your mind and come to your senses. Dive into artisan activities at the heart of Italian culture: wine, olive oil, bread, cheese and cooking.Relax and energize your body with yoga, massage, walking, swimming.Discover your creative feminine power. The organiser of this event is Eleanor Shannon, a wine sommelier/yoga teacher friend of ours, who lives nearby and has written about Potentino on her blog (UncorkedinItaly.com). We encouraged her to design and teach this course. For more information and to book...
Wed, April 11, 2018
Digital Detox Reading & Writing Week with Louisa Young Availability: Check available events
Do you need peace and quiet, time and space, to get on with your reading, and perhaps your writing? Would you like delicious meals and wine and good company at the end of the day’s work? Maybe an award-winning author to have a look at what you’ve been working on, and offer words of advice? And support in keeping off the internet? Castello di Potentino is delighted to announce the Potentino Bookclub Reading and Writing Week 2019: a week of...
Sat, April 28, 2018
Wine Sense Wine WSET Level 1 Course With Emily O'Hare Availability: Check available events
This is a five-day residential course held in a beautifully restored medieval Tuscan castle at Castello di Potentino. Learn the essentials about wine with a special focus on the wines of Italy, following the globally recognised WSET approach. Eat fabulous food prepared by one of the UK’s top chefs from the River Café and Michelin starred local chef Roberto Rossi. Participate in morning food and wine pairing workshops and afternoon Masterclasses in pasta, risotto and Tuscan pork butchery. Enjoy optional daily yoga classes...
Sun, April 1, 2018
Scent and Scentabilty with Celia Lyttelton Availability: Check available events
Scent and Scentabilty with THE SCENT TRAIL author Celia Lyttelton. Explore your sense of smell and create your own perfumes whilst enjoying delicious aromatic food and wine tastings.
The four-day course at Castello di Potentino will be orchestrated by Celia Lyttelton; she is a scent critic and the author of THE SCENT TRAIL, How One Woman's quest for the Perfect Perfume Took Her Round the World. Published by Bantam and Penguin.
Sat, February 17, 2018
Potentino Vine Days 2018 Availability: Check available events
Charlotte Horton & Alexander Greene desiderano invitarvi al Castello di Potentino
Domenica 18 Febbraio e Lunedì 19 Febbraio a partire dalle 12:00
per una verticale di tutti i vini di Charlotte dal 2000. con un Bistrot Non-Stop preparato dallo chef stellato Michelin Roberto Rossi del Ristorante il Silene A soli 25 minuti da Montalcino, il Castello sarà aperto per le visite e le degustazioni fino a tarda sera.Castello di Potentino Loc. Potentino 58038 Seggiano (GR) www.potentino.com
Sun, February 18, 2018
Potentino Vine Days 2018 Availability: Check available events
Charlotte Horton & Alexander Greene desiderano invitarvi al Castello di Potentino
Domenica 18 Febbraio e Lunedì 19 Febbraio a partire dalle 12:00
per una verticale di tutti i vini di Charlotte dal 2000. con un Bistrot Non-Stop preparato dallo chef stellato Michelin Roberto Rossi del Ristorante il Silene A soli 25 minuti da Montalcino, il Castello sarà aperto per le visite e le degustazioni fino a tarda sera.Castello di Potentino Loc. Potentino 58038 Seggiano (GR) www.potentino.com
Fri, September 15, 2017
Wine Sense Wine WSET Level 1 Course With Emily O'Hare Availability: Check available events
This is a four-day (five night) residential course held in a beautifully restored medieval Tuscan castle at Castello di Potentino. Learn the essentials about wine with a special focus on the wines of Italy, following the globally recognised WSET approach. Eat simple meals in the dining room of the castle prepared using locally sourced ingredients and vegetables from Potentino's vegetable garden- celebrate the end of the course with a meal at Il Silene, cooked by Michelin-starred local chef Roberto Rossi. Participate in...
Thu, September 21, 2017
Yoga Retreat With Gunn Haglund Availability: Check available events
5 days (6 nights) of relaxation and yoga in the Tuscan countryside
Yoga enthusiasts and beginners alike are invited to dynamic vinyasa flow and meditative yin yoga sessions twice a day, al fresco vegetarian meals, breathtaking walks, meditation by the river or simply reading or relaxing by the pool.
The Goddess Uncorked Discover Your Creative Power in Authentic Tuscany September 11-18, 2017 Availability: Check available events
SIX DAYS OF EARTHINESS AND SENSUALITY Step back in time at Castello di Potentino on the slope of an extinct volcano in Tuscany. Dive into artisan activities that are at the heart of Italian culture: picking grapes in the vineyard, pressing them with your feet, making bread from stone ground wheat, making ricotta and pecorino cheese, tasting wine and olive oil, making pasta and risotto, gathering fresh vegetables from the garden…. Rejuvenate with massage, yoga, guided meditation, swimming in the...
Mon, July 31, 2017
MORELLINO CLASSICA FESTIVAL presenta al CASTELLO DI POTENTINO Pietro Bonfilio Availability: Check available events
Una esclusiva nazionale della prima presentazione dell'unico disco Brilliant Classics dell'opera pianistica completa di Dmitrij Borisovic Kabalevskij, autore russo del secolo scorso, che Pietro ha inciso in questi giorni.
Mon, August 7, 2017
Mark Springer & Ben Groenevelt Piano & Contrabasso Availability: Check available events
Martedì 8 agosto 2017 Ore 20:00
Tue, August 8, 2017
Mark Springer & Arthur Jeffes ‘APARAT’ Availability: Check available events
Mark Spring and Arthur Jeffes from the Penguin Café perform pieces from their album Aparat.
Sat, August 12, 2017
CASTELLO DI POTENTINO va al MORELLINO CLASSICA FESTIVAL -Potentino va a Scansano Availability: Check available events
Piano Solos by Mark SpringerMark Springer & Lochrian Quartet Potentino Wine Quintet ConcertoAMIATA Sextet ConcertoCon Ben Groenevelt
Mon, August 13, 2018
Amiata Sextet e varie pezzi di Mark Springer Availability: Check available events
Piano Solos by Mark SpringerMark Springer & Lochrian Quartet Potentino Wine Quintet ConcertoAMIATA Sextet ConcertoCon Ben Groenevelt First Movement, Primordial Amiata Landscape Second movement , Human Presences Third Movement, Castle in War Fourth Movement, Mysterious Volcanic
Wed, August 23, 2017
CASTELLO DI POTENTINO va al MORELLINO CLASSICA FESTIVAL -Potentino va a Scansano Availability: Check available events
CONVENTO PETRETO SCANSANO Virginia Black e il Florizel Quartet: Giovedì 24 agosto 2017 Ore 19,00 Biglietti da http://www.morellinoclassicafestival.com
Thu, August 24, 2017
Bach and Mozart: Virginia Black & the Florizel Quartet Availability: Check available events
Virginia Black Solo recitalsJ S Bach Partita No 5 in G major, BWV 829 D Scarlatti 6 sonatasL van Beethoven Sonata Op 31 No 2 in D minor, “The Tempest”
Fri, August 25, 2017
Solo Piano Recitals by Virginia Black Availability: Check available events
Virginia Black Solo recitalsJ S Bach Partita No 5 in G major, BWV 829 D Scarlatti 6 sonatasL van Beethoven Sonata Op 31 No 2 in D minor, “The Tempest”
Mon, August 28, 2017
The Florizel Quartet: Bartok, Haydn & Mozart Availability: Check available events
The Florizel QuartetVari pezzi incluso: J Haydn String quartet Op.33 No.3 B Bartok String quartet No. 3W A Mozart “Dissonance” String Quartet in C major, K465
Sun, July 30, 2017
Discovering Cheese with Juliet Harbutt Availability: Check available events
Following our theme for Castello di Potentino’s Study of the Senses programme which centres on the importance of fermentation in food, we are very pleased to have the expert on all things cheese, Juliet Harbutt returning to host a weekend of tasting, talks and a demonstration of cheesemaking at Potentino. An amusing and very knowledgeable speaker, she was introduced to us by our great family friend Prue Leith and hosted an inspiring tasting of classic and lesser known Italian cheeses at...
Discover Italian Wine with Eleanor Shannon, founder of Uncorked in Italy Availability: Check available events
This four-day residential course will be held in a stunning, medieval castle, Castello di Potentino, on the slopes of an extinct volcano in the wildest part of Tuscany. Learn what makes Italy unique in the world of wine, which wines and grape varieties define different areas, and why organic, biodynamic and “natural” wines* are the fast becoming the choice of new wine drinkers and connoisseurs alike.The course begins with a brief overview of Italian wine fundamentals, then, delves into learning about...