Castelnuovo Di Farfa With your hands

Advanced olive oil tasting with an official panel

Castelnuovo di Farfa

This is the technical one. The panel leading it is the kind that judges oil officially, recognised by the agriculture ministry, and the session is built to teach you to do what they do.

How the day goes

  1. A guided session with the panel, working oils the way a judging actually works.
  2. You come out with the vocabulary: what to smell for, what counts as a defect.
  3. It ends in the tasting room at Castelnuovo di Farfa, up in the Sabina.

The estate works from more than one address in the Sabina, so confirm where the session starts when you book.

Where it is

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

Castelnuovo di Farfa, and where it is from Rome Castelnuovo di Farfa drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 63 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 63 min Rome Castelnuovo di Farfa

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Roma 273/A - Montelibretti, the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 03drive from the middle of Rome
  • 59 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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Photograph by Justinawind, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0. Not this place: it shows what the day looks like, and will be replaced with the operator's own photograph or ours from the field.

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