Monte Porzio Catone With your hands

Wine tour with a massage at a Frascati estate

Monte Porzio Catone

The cellar at Monte Porzio Catone is cut into tufa and stays cold right through August, which is half the reason for drinking down there. Afterwards, if you have arranged it, there is a massage table — not the usual next step at a winery.

How the day goes

  1. Down into the cold of the cellar with someone from the estate, out of the heat of the hill.
  2. The tasting at a table, with a board you pick yourself rather than one handed to you.
  3. The massage after, set up separately from the wine and with its own booking.
  4. Back out onto the ridge, with the Roman plain spread out flat underneath you.

If you want the rows and the soil explained before anything is poured, this one starts underground: other Frascati estates open in the vineyard instead.

Where it is

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

Monte Porzio Catone, and where it is from Rome Monte Porzio Catone drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 34 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 34 min Rome Monte Porzio Catone

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Frascati Colonna 29, 00078 Monte Porzio Catone (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 34 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 26 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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