A grower tipping harvested grapes into a bin With your hands

Picnic among the vines at Piglio

Piglio

Lunch happens between the rows, on the ground, with the Piglio hills going up behind you. What arrives is a grape-harvest crate with the entire table packed inside it.

How the day goes

  1. Pick your spot in the vineyard, and the crate comes out: ceramic plates, glasses, cutlery, cloth.
  2. An antipasto of local products, water, and a bottle of the estate's wine that you choose.
  3. A hot first course brought out separately, and a box of dessert at the end.

It is a lunch that stays where you put it; if you would rather be moving, the estate also runs a visit to the cellar.

Where it is

Piglio at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Piglio, and where it is from Rome Piglio drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 70 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 70 min Rome Piglio

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Piglio — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 10drive from the middle of Rome
  • 75 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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Also around Piglio

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Four-wine tasting at a Piglio winery

A tasting of four wines from the current vintages at the Pileum cellar in Piglio, in the Cesanese del Piglio DOCG area.

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Vineyard and cellar tour with tasting at Pileum

A walk through the vineyard and the cellar at Piglio, followed by a tasting of four wines from the current vintages paired with a plate of local products.

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Cellar tour and five-course lunch at Pileum

The weekend version of the Pileum cellar tour: a visit to the vineyard and cellar followed by a five-course tasting menu in the estate restaurant with three wines.

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Tasting menu at the Pileum winery restaurant

A tasting menu at the restaurant inside the Pileum winery in Piglio, in five or seven courses, with an optional pairing of three of the estate's wines.

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Truffle hunting with a dog

Meet at the station, follow the dog into the wood, dig up what it finds.

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Join the grape harvest

Cut the grapes yourself. The window opens 1 September and shuts 15 October.

€40 per person

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