Pickers cutting bunches of grapes in a vineyard With your hands

Daily winery visit at the Pallavicini estate at Colonna

Colonna

The building the Pallavicini keep their wine in was a coaching inn on the road down to Naples, the stop where tired horses were swapped for fresh ones. Travellers still pull in; the reason has changed.

How the day goes

  1. Out into the vineyards at Colonna with whoever is working that day.
  2. Then the cellar, and how the wine gets made in it.
  3. A tasting to finish — any day of the week, by appointment.

The estate osteria shuts for August, so plan the eating part somewhere else if that is when you come.

Where it is

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

Colonna, and where it is from Rome Colonna drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 41 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 41 min Rome Colonna

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Enopolio, Via Casilina Km 25,500 — 00030 Colonna (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 41 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 30 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 — so you can actually drink

    Our pick for this one

    There is wine at the end of this one. Somebody else driving is not a luxury here.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody has to stay off the wine

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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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