SPECIALTY TOURS: FOODIES
Do you love wine and food? We mean really love great wines and authentic, traditional dishes, products and their “backstories”? Well then, we’ve got you covered — our Italy Guided Food & Wine Tours can be booked as stand-alone days, or as part of multi-day touring through several regions.
You can work in all sorts of great visits and activities into a tailored-for-you itinerary in Italy, including:
- hands-on cooking lessons with professional chefs in Sicily, Puglia, Tuscany or Amalfi
- visits to produce, meat, seafood and specialty markets with a food guide
- truffle hunting
- winecellar and vineyard visits
- winetastings of all kinds
- mozzarella or parmesan cheese production first hand
- olive pressing and oil tasting
- prosciutto ham production and curing
- balsamic of Modena DOP production and aging
- visits to castles and modern wineries
- visit a lemon orchard and see how limoncello is made
All regions of Italy produce wines, and some of them are world-class — Brunello, Barolo, Amarone, and even some of the top wines from the north side of Sicily’s volcano, Mt Etna.
Truffles, aged cheeses, specialty cold cuts, olives and olive oil, buffalo mozzarella of Battipaglia, artichokes from Puglia, the cherries of Verona, Sorrento walnuts, pistachios from Bronte, anchovies of Cetara and the sweet onions of the Calabrian coast…..It’s hard to know where to start some days!
“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
m f k fisher, food writer
Don’t see what you’re looing for here? Don’t despair. These are only a few ideas from the many things that you could include in your itinerary. We love food and wine as much as you do, so we will find the solution you’re looking for!
Artichokes from Puglia, Verona cherries, Cetara anchovies, giant olives from Castelvetrano, granita in Sicily, harvesting sangiovese grapes in Tuscany……ahhhh…..Italy!
For more in-depth guides to Italy’s most important wines, foods, restaurants and shops, please see the amazing Slow Food Italy website
