Mount Etna 5-Hour Food and Wine Tasting Tour Tour in English
ID: GYG109933-157216
Category:
Country: Italy
Duration:
06:00 hours
Description
Savor the flavors of the volcanic Mount Etna area on a 5-hour food and wine tasting tour with a native guide. Visit typical family wineries and farmhouses to learn more about the produce of the lava terrain.
Benefit from pick-up at your accommodation and journey with an authorized local guide through the typical villages of Sicily's west coast. Pass houses made from lava stone and marvel at groves of orange, olive and almond trees.
Listen to tales of local traditions and learn about the food and wines produced in the volcanic landscape of Mount Etna. Stop at a family-run winery and get a glass of rosé prosecco as a welcome. Visit the cellars before a wine tasting with cold appetizers in a lava stone open-air amphitheater. Sample a glass of white and red wine with locally produced cheeses, salamis, artichokes and more.
Continue to a farmhouse to savor more food and wine on an open-air terrace overlooking the vineyards. Try various dishes, including ricotta cheese with marmalade and 2 different pastas made with seasonal ingredients, such as black pork sauce.
Finish your tour, tasting a home made Limoncello and be dropped off at your accommodation.
Highlights
- Learn more about the food and wines produced on the lava terrain of Etna
- See amazing houses built of lava stone and groves of lemon, olive and other trees
- Sample 5 glasses of wine at a winery
- Savor local, seasonal produce, such as artichokes and sun-dried tomatoes
- Have an organic lunch with an Etna product in a farmhouse
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Vegetarian and other dietary options are available on request
• This is a guaranteed small group tour
All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds
Pick-up possible from accommodations in Taormina, Letojanni or Giardini Naxos.
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 48 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 48 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.