Tarano

Tarano

A day out in Tarano

Olive country in the Sabina hills, where the oil is the reason to come and the reason to stay for lunch.

7 things to bookthe nearest is a 1 h 01 drive from Rome

The Sabina has been pressing oil since before Rome was worth mentioning, and the groves around Tarano are old, terraced and still worked by the families who own them. What you book here is almost always a table: a tasting in the grove, a walk through it, or a day with your hands in the nets at harvest.

Come in November if you can pick your month. The mills run day and night, the new oil is green and peppery, and everyone will make you try it on bread before you have sat down.

On horseback

Best fit for this section first, then whatever you can book today. Closest to Rome breaks a tie. Never by who pays us.

With your hands

Best fit for this section first, then whatever you can book today. Closest to Rome breaks a tie. Never by who pays us.

Tarano With your hands

Olive harvest day in Sabina

A hands-on day picking olives in the Sabina hills, followed by sorting and selecting the fruit to be sent for milling.

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Tarano With your hands

Meet the maker day at an organic olive farm

A longer day at the farm: the history of the estate and its year-round organic methods, an extended tasting of a range of Italian oils, and lunch.

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Tarano With your hands

Olive grove walk and oil tasting, year round

A guided walk through the organic olive grove followed by an interactive tasting of four Italian extra virgin olive oils, led by an olive oil sommelier.

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Ancient olive trees on terraced ground With your hands

Olive harvest day in the Sabina

Pick olives all morning; lunch and a bottle of their own oil come with the day.

€65 per person

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