• Wine Tour in Italy

    Tuscany, Piedmont, Veneto, Sicily and Puglia

    Discover Italy in the top Wine Zones, in the nicer Countryside, in the best Cities of Art

Wine Tours in Italy, Daytrips in Tuscany.
Tailor-made, private tours, customized rates.

Tuscany Classics & Coast, Puglia, Sicily East and West, Piedmont, Veneto & Garda Lake, Friuli & Slovenia, Lazio and Umbria, Amalfi Coast Naples & Capri. Daytrips: Chianti, Montalcino, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Bolgheri, Lucca, Cinqueterre.

From Piedmont to Puglia, from Tuscany to Sicily, every Italian is sure that his food, cheese, olive oil, and of course wine,  are the best of Italy. Well, the good new is that it's all perfectly true, if only you are set in the local  atmosphere, with the right host, in the right season. Which is  precisely the Italianwinetours mission: we create, and serve you a full menu of wines, food, traditions, and a bit of history, of each Italian region. All that, and our personal passion, will make your tour an intense full immersion, and a tastier one!  Across picture-perfect landscapes, and charming cities of art, our path follows Medieval and Roman roads, where the best heritage, and the best wines are found.  Not by chance, since good wines where always made for good and demanding drinkers, close to where nobles and merchants, used to live.  Each day we visit 2 or 3  cellars - more if you wish - that we hand-pick among ancient castles or monasteries,  new designer's estates, and - our favourites - delightful family and boutique wineries, where you can meet winemakers, and owners at times. 

Genius Loci.  Italy, small as it is, is a world of  more wines sthat one can imagine, an unmatchable treasure of culture and art.  So, we  focus on a region at the time, or two nearby ones. Like in a dedicated vertical tasting, the purposes are absorbing each local wine nuance, catching a bit of the lifestyle and character of the people, and of the land that make them. And, in addition, collecting priceless memories, and feelings that may last a lifetime, and that will come back, like a snapshot of Italy, when you taste that wine again back at your home.  We can rush across Italy, if you ask, but zapping from Venice to Siena, to Positano, with a wine checklist at hand it's not what we don't suggest, even when you touch Italy for the first time.

Each region has celebrated cities of art,  small ex-capitals - imagine Florence, Siena, Venice and Verona, Naples, Turin, Lecce just to mention some - unique food specialties. Nature, origin of some grapes, as well as the history of some winemakers all combine to create our vins du terroir, and are all linked together, hidden at the bottom of your glass. A week is just enough to discover that and, with our help - enjoy all of it at the best! Take time and enjoy!

OUR TRAVEL MODES

Always a tailor-made experience

 

With Italian Wine Tours you buy from local craftsmen. It’s like going to the tailor, or getting shoes made to measure. Even our more classic tours are always tailor-made experiences. For your experience in Tuscany, Sicily or another region that you select, you can choose among five travel modes.

Classic Travel Mode

Charming 4 stars Hotels. How it works: Schedule, Wines, Meals

Casual Inns Travel Mode

Best value tours in 3 stars Hotels. How it works: Schedule, Wines, Meals

Luxury and VIP Custom Made Tours

Five stars Hotels and Historical mansions Chauffeured Tours, Top Chef dinners, VIP Tastings. How it works: Schedule, Wines, Meals

Contact me, I will organize your tour based on your preferences, and wishes. We shall figure out together which region, how long a tour, which travel style match your expectations at the best.
Contact me, I will organize your tour based on your preferences, and wishes. We shall figure out together which region, how long a tour, which travel style match your expectations at the best.

Italianwinetours is, like a boutique winery, an artisanal operation that creates few, high quality bottles for connaisseurs, and curious wine lovers. We travel with small groups, families, even couple, providing tailor made itineraries, hotels, and tastings.  We hand-picked our wineries: centuries old castles and monasteries, boutique or family wineries, crazy creative wine makers, modern hi-tech designer's estates. In one way or another, they are all special.  Italianwinetours started in 2001, after exploring Italy in depth working both as a geologist, and a tour leader for top tour operators. Walking the most beautiful trails, from The Etna Volcano to the Chianti, and the Dolomites, tasting hundreds of the best wines, and discovering the more unique local recipes, I resolved to concentrate my my experiences in my own tours. We have three guidelines. 1) wine and food are so tied to the Italian lifestyle, and history, that you can fully appreciate a Nebbiolo, or a Primitivo, or a Marsala, only with a full immersion in Piedmont, in Puglia, or in Sicily and in their amazing cuisines.  2) Slow-food and slow wine: no hurry. We prefer to focus on one region in each tour, because each of them is a little world on its own.  Forget making Italy in a week, even in two, you would only hoover on the surface, and catch bits and pieces,  rushing most of your time in a car. 3) Really tailor made tours: itinerary, hotels, and hence costs. And visits made to measure for your interests and preferences, whether it is nature, seafood, history, fashion and shopping, opera or top chef hotels

Best Value rates 

Get the best rates, simply because you are dealing with the travel agent, and the guide who will travel with you.  Each tour is custom designed, yet we suggest three price levels, between which the main variable are the more or less fancy hotels: CLASSIC, CASUAL, VIP TOURS. In any case, you can compare our rates and check that: 1) you save 20 to 30% on comparable tour packages. 2) You get a customized private tour at the rate of a group tour. And, take it as an extra, two wine tastings, and wine at dinner are included. 3) Last but not least, you travel with enthusiastic gourmet guide, who feels like your host, not your chauffeur, in his own country, who wishes that you experience wine,  food, and the the magic of each region as he does himself.