Two people picking grapes in a vineyard With your hands

Join the grape harvest

Monte Compatri

For the weeks the grapes come off the vines, a cellar in the hills above Rome opens its rows and puts visitors to work in them. You cut the bunches yourself, standing in the vineyard, and the rest of the year the day does not exist.

How the day goes

  1. Drive out of Rome into the Castelli, where the vines sit on the hill slopes above the city.
  2. Into the rows, in English if you want it: cutting bunches, filling the crate, at the pace the harvest sets.
  3. Add the platter to the booking and the end of it becomes lunch at the table.
  4. Back down towards Rome afterwards, with your hands still sticky.

It exists only while the grapes are coming off — outside that window the same cellar sits you down for a tasting, with none of the work in the field.

Where it is

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

Monte Compatri, and where it is from Rome Monte Compatri drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 36 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 36 min Rome Monte Compatri

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Monte Compatri — the town, not the meeting point. Check with the operator where exactly to turn up: their own page is linked further up.

Getting there

This one really wants a car

  • 36 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 28 kmeach way
  • 2 h 30once 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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One thing we have not resolved: The cellar does not publish which weekends the harvest runs: that still needs a phone call.

Checked 2026-08-17 · casalemattia.it

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