Magliano Sabina With your hands

A professional olive-oil tasting course, in Italian or in English

Magliano Sabina

A blue glass so you cannot see the colour, the oil warmed in your own palm, then the sharp noisy sip that sprays it across your tongue. This is how professionals do it.

How the day goes

  1. Out to the hills above Magliano Sabina, to the property where the course is held.
  2. Among the olive trees first, close enough to touch them, with the history of the crop.
  3. Then the technique, taught by a professional taster: the glass, the palm, the napkin.
  4. You leave able to tell fruity from bitter from pungent, and to name a fault when you meet one.

It is taught in English as well as Italian, so ask for the English session when you ring the taster on her own number.

Where it is

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

Magliano Sabina, and where it is from Rome Magliano Sabina drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 64 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 64 min Rome Magliano Sabina

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Proprieta' Gli Alberi, in the countryside near Magliano Sabina (RI), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 04drive from the middle of Rome
  • 73 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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