With your hands, around Rome

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Honey house visit in the Veio park, north of Rome

A morning in the apiary inside the Veio regional park: watching how the bees live and work, then a guided tasting of several honeys, millefiori, chestnut and honeydew, led by th…

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Teaching farm ten minutes from the Appia Antica

A working farm inside Rome, ten minutes from the Appia Antica park, with hectares of cultivated land and farm animals.

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Vineyard experience and tasting inside Rome

An organic farm inside Rome producing organic wine, olive oil and grapes.

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Farm brewery tour and guided beer tasting near Rome

About two hours led by the brewer or one of the partners: a walk through the hop rows and the fields, the brewery itself, and a guided tasting of three beers chosen on the day a…

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A 1700s farmhouse over thirty hectares of Frascati vines, with Rome on the horizon

The estate sits in an eighteenth-century casale on a hill at Monte Porzio Catone, thirty hectares of Frascati DOCG vineyard in front and the skyline of Rome beyond.

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Six bookable Frascati Superiore tastings at Villa Simone

Villa Simone at Monte Porzio Catone sells six tastings that can be booked and paid on its own site, from a wine-only flight to wine with food.

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Private vineyard visit and tasting with a sommelier

A private visit that starts in the vineyard and ends in the eighteenth-century rooms of the estate, led by a dedicated sommelier or by the owners.

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Wine tour with a massage at a Frascati estate

A wine tasting in the cellar which can be combined with a massage.

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Truffle hunt with the dogs and a seven-course truffle lunch

About two hours of truffle hunting in the hills with the truffle dogs, then a seven-course truffle lunch at the host's home with wine from his own production.

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Truffle hunting and eight-course lunch

Metro C to the end of the line, two hours hunting, then a seven-course lunch.

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Join the grape harvest

Cut the grapes yourself. The window opens 1 September and shuts 15 October.

€40 per person

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Tastings at a historic Frascati estate

The estate has a dedicated events and tastings page on its own site.

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Blend a herbal cocktail base as a group workshop

Each participant is given fresh herbs in spring and summer, dried ones in autumn and winter, and hears the history and uses of each.

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Identify, pick and cook wild edible greens

A short course on recognising, gathering and cooking wild edible plants, held at the Le Erbe della Luna farm by Lake Nemi.

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Four-hour class on the four Roman pasta sauces

A four-hour practical class on gricia, amatriciana, carbonara and cacio e pepe, taught step by step with the participants doing every stage from preparing the ingredients to pla…

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Cook with edible flowers picked on the farm

Participants pick edible flowers — cultivated organically on the farm and wild ones in season — and turn them into two preparations, between drinks and cooked dishes, depending …

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Plant and pick the wild strawberries of Nemi

A walk through fields and woods with Massimo, a grower, to see the three kinds of strawberry grown at Nemi — the wild one, the everbearing one and the fragolone.

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Pick herbs on the farm and blend your own tisanes

A sensory walk through the farm's cultivated and wild medicinal herbs, then each participant picks a selection and blends tisanes with the grower — separating functional blends …

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Sensory visit to a medicinal-herb farm by Lake Nemi

A visit to a working medicinal-herb farm in which the plants are met through all five senses — smelled, touched, and tasted straight from the field — with a tasting of the farm'…

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Farm and mill visit with tasting, Sabina DOP

A Sabina DOP oil producer that opens its mill and its centuries-old groves to visitors with a tasting.

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Foraging for wild greens in the Alban hills, and cooking them

Where to look, what to pick and how, first in theory and then out in the field; how to clean and keep wild greens and what to do with them in the kitchen.

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Make cheese and ricotta from the milk, then eat it

The whole passage from milk to cheese and ricotta, followed step by step in the pot, with the differences explained so you can repeat it at home.

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Shape and fire a piece of terracotta on a farm in the Castelli Romani

Clay worked by hand and then fired, on a family farm running since 1986 twenty-five kilometres south of Rome.

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Organic winery visit in the Colli Lanuvini hills

A walk between the rows of an organic estate in the Colli Lanuvini, a look at how the wine is made and aged in oak, then a guided tasting of the wines and the estate's organic e…

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Wine tasting at a historic Cori cooperative

Tasting of three wines from the native Nero Buono and Bellone grapes, served with bruschetta, cheeses and cured meats, at the cooperative founded in Cori in 1947.

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Tasting at the Cori cooperative winery

A cooperative founded in 1947 on the slopes below the town of Cori, working the native grapes of the area, Bellone and Nero Buono.

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Vineyard and cellar tour with sparkling wine

Guided tour through the vineyard and the barrel cellar, then a tasting of the sparkling wine and the two DOC wines of the house, served with local food products.

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Cellar and vineyard visit with tasting

A walk through the vineyards and a guided visit of the cellar of an organic estate at Cori, followed by a tasting of three wines paired with local products.

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Terracotta workshop and cellar tasting

A three-hour terracotta workshop in the studio of the artist Martino Antocchi: mixing clay, learning basic modelling, making natural engobe colours and burnishing with olive oil…

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Tasting at a three-generation Cori estate

A small Cori estate of vineyards and olive groves run by three generations, working the native Bellone, Malvasia Puntinata and Nero Buono grapes.

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Winery visit and tasting near the Pontine coast

An organic farm at Borgo Grappa near Latina with a dedicated visits and tastings page.

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Vineyard visit and tasting between Ninfa and the sea

Family winery of the Pontine plain, with vineyards between the Circeo national park and the hills of Ninfa.

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Guided cellar visit and tasting at Casale del Giglio

Guided visit of the cellar at Le Ferriere with a tasting of the vintages available, in Italian or, on request, in English, French or German.

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Winery tour and sommelier-led tasting in the Agro Pontino

About an hour and a half: a tour of the estate, then a sommelier leads a tasting of five of the winery's labels paired with local food, a hand-made tarallo, sheep's milk caciott…

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Five tasting menus in an Amerino cellar, from five euros up

A family winery on the Amerino hills, working since 1960, with a published price list that starts at €5 for two wines and climbs to a vertical of five vintages of the same label.

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Cellar visit and Cesanese tasting at Affile

A visit to a winery at Affile, in the upper Aniene valley, with a tasting of Cesanese, the red wine of the area.

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Est! Est!! Est!!! tasting at the Montefiascone co-operative winery

The town's co-operative winery runs guided tastings of its own wines at its shop on Via Grilli, paired with local food products.

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Cellar tasting with Tuscia cheese and cured meats at Antica Cantina Leonardi

Tasting inside the cellar of a Montefiascone estate, with the winery's award-winning wines served alongside regional cheeses and cured meats.

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Eat your way through Terracina's old town, glass included

Sorsi e Morsi is a walking food-and-wine crawl through Terracina's upper old town, along the Appian Way.

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Cellar visit inside a Bourbon ironworks

A guided visit to a winery housed in the ironworks opened by Ferdinand II of Bourbon in 1858 at Rosanisco, in the municipality of Atina.

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Sugared almonds since 1783: the Pelino museum inside the factory

A museum on two floors inside the Pelino sugared-almond factory in Sulmona: patents, honours and nineteenth-century bomboniere in the first room, then relics of the firm, and a …

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Vineyard visit above Trevinano, on the Lazio-Tuscany border

A small organic wine estate on the northern edge of Lazio, looking towards Trevinano and Monte Amiata.

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Vineyard walk and tasting on the Via Francigena

Five tasting routes at Acquapendente, on the northern edge of Lazio: a walk through the vineyard, a visit to the old cellar, then three, five or seven wines with a board of cure…

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Mill tour and oil tasting at Frantoio Gentili, Farnese

A mill in Farnese, on the Canino DOP side of the Tuscia, shows the stages of production from harvest through milling to bottling, then runs a guided tasting of its extra virgin …

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Olive mill visit and oil tasting in the Alta Tuscia

A mill run by the Gentili family, olive growers at Farnese for over two centuries, producing Canino DOP extra virgin olive oil.

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Watch pecorino being made, from the morning milk to the finished wheel

The Manciano cooperative dairy has been turning Maremma sheep's milk into cheese for over fifty years, and it opens the plant to visitors.

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Natural wine and olive oil tasted among the vines, bookable all year

An organic estate on the hills above Saturnia that makes natural wine and extra virgin olive oil, and opens for guided walks through its vineyards and olive groves.

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A family winery on the Albegna, half an hour from the Saturnia springs

A family-run winery on the Albegna valley road at Marsiliana, which opens its doors for wine tastings and walks through the vineyards - the walk being, they say, their own favou…

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Pasta making in the countryside, with a winery tour

Make the pasta at a Frascati winery: 22 minutes by train, picked up at the station.

€109 per person

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Truffle hunting with a dog

Meet at the station, follow the dog into the wood, dig up what it finds.

€72 per person

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Make fresh pasta by hand in the Tivoli countryside

They collect you at your Rome hotel; you come back having made lunch by hand.

€250 per person

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Buffalo dairy: milking, curd and tasting

Be there for the 8:30 milking and the 9:00 curd: the timetable is the tour.

€15 per person

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Frascati wine tasting in a volcanic grotto with a view over Rome

A guided tour of a Frascati winery built around a 16th-century villa, including the vineyards and the historic volcanic cave used as a cellar, followed by a tasting.

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Frascati DOCG estate on Via di Vermicino with tastings

A family estate on the edge of Frascati that makes Frascati wine and extra-virgin olive oil and has a page of its own devoted to events and tastings, alongside pages on the cell…

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Organic Frascati tasting in the vineyard and cellar

A walk through the vineyard, then the cellar and the barrel room of an organic Frascati estate, ending with a guided tasting of four De Sanctis wines.

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Organic Frascati estate that pairs the cellar with Roman cooking

An organic estate on the hills at Frascati working the native Frascati DOCG grapes — Malvasia del Lazio, Greco Bianco, Bombino.

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Two-hour vineyard tasting a train ride from Rome, at 45 euro

The short version: fifteen minutes by train to Tor Vergata, five on foot to the farmhouse, a walk among the vines with views back towards Rome, and three Frascati wines paired w…

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Half-day Frascati wine tour with lunch, from the train station

A driver meets you at Frascati station, takes you to a sixteenth-century family vineyard for a tasting of three boutique wines with snacks, then a guided walk through Frascati a…

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Farm-to-table cooking class in a Frascati vineyard

Fifteen minutes by train from Rome: a walk through the vineyard with a local guide, then a hands-on class where you cook traditional Frascati dishes and the local wine cookies w…

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Pizza making with a master pizzaiolo and Frascati wine

A guided walk through the historic centre of Frascati tasting slow-roasted pork and jug wine, then a pizza lesson with a master pizzaiolo: you make your own, eat it with antipas…