Tarano With your hands

Olive grove walk and oil tasting, year round

Tarano

Tasting oil properly means warming the glass in your hand and breathing it before you sip, and most people discover here that they had never really tasted good oil at all. The grove comes first.

How the day goes

  1. Through the organic grove, with how the trees are farmed explained among them.
  2. Then Italian extra virgin oils set side by side, and the differences pulled apart.
  3. Led by an oil sommelier, and interactive rather than a lecture at a table.

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 Via Benedetti, Fraz San Giorgio, 02040 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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