Montecchio With your hands

Cellar tour and tasting at Famiglia Cotarella

Montecchio

The Cotarella family pours in its own cellar at Montecchio, just over the Umbrian line and a short drive on from Montefiascone. The guided route starts where the family itself started.

How the day goes

  1. A guided walk through the cellar, told as the family's own story.
  2. Poggio dei Gelsi and Trentanni poured, with bread and the estate's Marciliano olive oil.
  3. Lake Bolsena and Civita di Bagnoregio are both on the way back to Rome.

Where it is

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

Montecchio, and where it is from Rome Montecchio drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 98 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 98 min Rome Montecchio

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Amerina 30-32-34, 05020 Montecchio (TR), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 38drive from the middle of Rome
  • 114 kmeach way
  • 2 honce you are there
  • 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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