This is not a wine tour. It is an invitation to step inside Tuscany.
A week at Athena’s table is not a tour, and it is not a conference. The wines are poured by the hand that made them. The truffle hounds are the neighbors’. The cellar is a working cellar. The only schedule is the one your senses ask for.
We don’t sell vacations. We host transformations.
Seasonal, couples, music, or by invitation. Every retreat shares one thing: Athena at the table.
Seven nights in Montalcino, paced to the season you choose. Brunello harvest in October. Thermal springs and wild herbs in May. Truffle hounds in November. The flagship Wine Wellness week.
Two of you. One Tuscan table. A week designed not to fix anything, but to remind you both why you built a life together in the first place.
Fiddle and singing retreats at Terralsole, co-hosted by Athena and Inni-K. Morning classes, evening sessions, long lunches, wine between every note.
Seven nights. Private villas. Twelve guests. Doors that remain closed to commercial travel. A week designed around you, at a pace you set.
Whichever week you choose, these are waiting.
Athena guides every tasting, the woman who made the wine.
Three Brunello cellars, opened through friendship, not reservation.
Your Vivanti membership begins the day you arrive, and continues long after you fly home.
Every wine, every dish, every moment builds your sensory fingerprint. Your dashboard holds it forever.
A bottle from the Members’ Reserve. Not on any website. Not at any tasting room. Opened at your table.
Slow breakfasts. Long lunches. Mornings to yourself. Evenings that don’t end on a schedule.
You wake slowly. Coffee is already on. The light over the Val d’Orcia is the kind of light you’ve seen in paintings and never quite believed was real.
Breakfast on the terrace. A walk through the vines. Back to the kitchen for a lesson, or to your room for a book, or to the piazza for nothing in particular.
Lunch is long. Two hours, maybe three. There is wine, and then there is water, and then there is more wine. Nobody is in a hurry.
The afternoon is yours. Nap. Swim. Walk. Read. The schedule bends around you, not the other way around.
Dinner at sunset. Candlelight by the time the first course arrives. Athena pours a wine, tells the story of the vintage, and the room slows down to listen. The second wine is a Riserva. The third, tonight, is a library vintage from 2007 , the first one you’ve ever tasted.
By the time the figs and the vin santo arrive, it’s midnight. Nobody has checked their phone.
This is a day at the retreat.
I arrived exhausted. I left changed. Not because I learned about wine, but because for seven days I was allowed to taste everything slowly. I haven't rushed a meal since I got home.
My wife and I have been to every five-star hotel you've heard of. This was different. The luxury wasn't the villa. It was Athena actually knowing our names by the second morning.
I'm a professional musician. I've been to a lot of retreats that promised transformation. This is the only one that delivered.
Athena Tergis Bollag has spent twenty years making Brunello in Montalcino. Before that, she spent twenty on stage as a principal fiddler with Riverdance. She is a senior-certified Tony Robbins leader. A meditation practitioner. A cook who learned from Tuscan grandmothers and a host who knows your name before you arrive.
She does not retreat from the world when she hosts a retreat. She invites you deeper into yours.
Vivanti at the Tuscan Table tier save 10% on every retreat. Inner Circle members save 15% and receive priority placement before public availability. The math tends to pay for the membership within a year.
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Occasional notes from the Tuscan table, a few times a season.
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