Tarano With your hands

Olive grove tour and oil tasting in Sabina, in English

Tarano

The farmer walks first and talks second: through the grove tree by tree, with the whole year laid out from the pruning to the picking, up in the Sabina hills where the oil has always come from.

How the day goes

  1. A walk through the organic grove with the farmer, season by season through the work.
  2. An oil tasting after, led by an olive oil sommelier, Italian oils set against each other.
  3. A tin of the latest harvest goes home with you; the hosts are native English speakers.

You are asked to taste and say what you notice, so it suits someone curious rather than someone who wants to sit back and be shown things.

Where it is

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

Tarano, and where it is from Rome Tarano drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 61 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 61 min Rome Tarano

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to San Giorgio di Tarano (RI), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 01drive from the middle of Rome
  • 65 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 Lamberto Zannotti, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 3.0. 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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