Lanuvio
Wine cellars cut into the volcanic rock, on the outer rim of the crater.
6 things to bookthe nearest is a 51 min drive from Rome
Lanuvio sits on the southern edge of the Alban volcano, and the estates here store their wine where their predecessors did: in caves cut straight into the tufa, which holds a steady temperature without anybody paying for it.
The town has a medieval tower and a sanctuary of Juno that Roman emperors came to; the vineyards start where the houses stop.
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With your handsWhere to look, what to pick and how, first in theory and then out in the field; how to clean and keep wild greens and what to do with them in the kitchen.
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With your handsThe whole passage from milk to cheese and ricotta, followed step by step in the pot, with the differences explained so you can repeat it at home.
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With your handsClay worked by hand and then fired, on a family farm running since 1986 twenty-five kilometres south of Rome.
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With your handsA walk between the rows of an organic estate in the Colli Lanuvini, a look at how the wine is made and aged in oak, then a guided tasting of the wines and the estate's organic e…
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With your handsThe visit starts at the top of the Torre di Presciano in the middle of the vineyards, goes down into the fermentation cellar and then into caves cut into the rock in the early 1…
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With your handsSame route as the Light tasting — tower, fermentation cellar, rock-cut caves, multimedia room and barrel cellar — with a fuller tasting of the estate's five wines and its olive …
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