BAROLO, AMARONE and SOAVE, CHIANTI, BRUNELLO and MARSALA…
… ALBA, VERONA, FIRENZE, ROMA, SIRACUSA…

The ItalianWineTours guides are dedicated to design special tours, really tailor made, and to reveal to you the best of their country.
Our experience and our network are for few demanding travelers, for curious gourmets and discerning wine lovers.

THE IDEAL TRIP IN THE PERFECT COUNTRY
Good and excelent wines are found in the historical wine countries as in the new ones.
Peaceful, welcoming landscapes or dramatic, rough ones, as well as venerable coltural heritages, enrich most continents.
Tasty, various, and healthy cuisines belong, instead, only to few lucky countries.
But few, gifted places offer a balance of all of that at once, and of that old fashined art of living.
When you land in those places, you feel somehow at home. In the best possible world sometimes, like in certain valleys and towns of Italy, for instance.
The nature all around, not too tidy perhaps, but present there as a kind of civilized habitat, where fields and hills are like designed and slowly shaped by generations of men.
The cities, the language, the people’s manners are impregnated by their complex history and by familiarity with art and beauty, if you can see it.

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The local cuisines, different from each other, in which Roman, medieval, Renaissance recipes, ingredients from the “New World” and spices from the East are layered and blended, are proudly celebrated as an essential part of life.

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In this wine country, the wine, sacred in the Classic as in the Christian culture, is something for everyone and everyday. We get easily bored by too much sniffing and gargling, aging and oaking and elegant talking.
We drink at lunch a litlle, and at dinner mostly, the wine is an everyday presence, like bread pasta or olive oil.
You learn to drink at home, you know the wine by sampling and experiencing.
Each region offers five, ten or fifty different wines.
Elegant medium bodied reds, fruity young ones, austere riservas and complex IGTs.
Last but not least, at reasonable prices.
Can you picture all those cellars and all those bottles? Rows, and miles of them, refining in silence in the cellars, waiting for marrying the ideal dish, waiting for that unknown, designated drinker.

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What we propose is a great experience of the best wines and cuisine, and a full immersion in the Italian lifestyle. Choose your destination among our favourite regions.

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Tuscany seems to be the best seller. So we propose many options and also short trips.
Our itineraries explore then the Veneto, Sudtyrol and Friuli, Umbria and Lazio, around Rome, and the grand wines of Piedmont of course.
The fans of the true Mediterranean cuisine, well, should rather turn your eyes to the old, Greek and Arab southern Italy.
There is where it comes from, and there we propose amazing tours in Apulia or in Sicily.
Two regions which produce most of the Italian wine, rich of ancient history and homes of intense, warm wines.
Besides this, we have still more trips in less known regions, and special trips, linked to cultural or culinary events, and we can include cooking happenings in many programs.
Our portofolio is probably the larger that you can find, so contact us to find out more, or for a sample custom made proposal.

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We offer our expertise to design the right tour for each type of traveler, and we lead it ourselves, without intermediaries.
Our guiding service includes three steps: you choose an area and explain us how you like to travel, we design an itinerary and finalize it with you.
Then, basically, we are ready to go for the tour.
Our fees are medium, they vary according to the number of people and to the season, and to the complexity of the planning work.

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The accomodations are at your choice: hotel or relais style, farmhouse resots, villas.
We will give our best, free, suggestions.
We trust that you will get a holiday matching exactely your style, costing what you are willing to pay, flowing - not running- at your personal pace.