Classic Half-Day Wine Tour in Frascati with Lunch
Description
Discover all the best Frascati has to offer from its charming city center, beautiful views and vineyards, an historic family-run winery, and fresh local cuisine. This half-day tour from Rome will stimulate your senses and rejuvenate your spirit. Frascati is an easy 25 minute train ride from Rome and is part of the Castelli Romani or ‘Roman Castles. Things move at a slower pace in Frascati. Nowhere is this fact better represented than in the the way food is produced and prepared. Porchetta is cooked in a wood burning oven for over 8 hours. The olive oil is extra virgin and cold pressed. The pasta is all hand-made. Our wine is still made with ancient techniques first used by the Romans. Here, the local baker, winemaker, tavern owner, and restaurant owner all value organic and locally sourced products. Not because its trendy, but because it’s tradition!
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Our drivers will bring you to one of the oldest family-run wineries in Frascati. Tour our beautiful artisanal Frascati Vineyard and 16th century Farmhouse and Winery accompanied by the winemaker. Learn about how the artisanal winemaking tradition has been kept alive by a devotion to traditional winemaking techniques, incorporated into the production of our modern DOCG wines. Explore a deep wine cave which dates back to the times of Ancient Rome. Taste our three wines; Frascati Superiore DOCG, Red Vagnolo IGT and Sweet Cannellino DOCG. Each wine is described in detail by our licensed sommelier and is accompanied by freshly baked goods picked up from the bakery in the center of Frascati during the tour of town. You will also enjoy our delicious extra virgin olive oil. Sit and relax while sipping your wine in a beautiful setting with amazing views of the Roman countryside.
Discover all the best Frascati has to offer from its charming city center, beautiful views and vineyards, an historic family-run winery, and fresh local cuisine. This half-day tour from Rome will stimulate your senses and rejuvenate your spirit. Frascati is an easy 25 minute train ride from Rome and is part of the Castelli Romani or ‘Roman Castles’. TRAIN SCHEDULE VARIES BY DAY, PLEASE CONFIRM TIME WITH PROVIDER Your guide will meet you at 10:20 AM at Frascati Train Station. (Saturday schedule varies, please check with provider for correct train information) The train for Frascati leaves from Rome Termini at 9:49 AM and costs just 2.10 euro. Learn about the history of Frascati while tasting local products like slow-roasted pork and Frascati jug wine. Meet local artisans and shop owners who are eager to share their stories. Feel like a local while accompanied by your guide who lives in Frascati and knows everybody in town!
After the vineyard, lunch will be served in a charming Osteria back in the center of Frascati. After lunch you can walk back to the Frascati train station which returns to Rome at every :36 past the hour (until 20:36) Lunch (or dinner) begins with local cheeses, vegetables & different salumi and is followed by fresh homemade pasta with seasonal sauces. The meal is also served with amazing local wine.
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- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(159)
The vineyard was absolutely beautiful. Loved the tour of the caves below towards the middle/end. The first 45min(I timed it) were spent outside in the heat with no water or wine to walk around with. One girl in the group asked for water and she said when we go inside later there will be some. Lack luster wine experience with only 3 1/2 pours over 2 hours. The second half, lunch, was fantastic and saved the review. Great tour of the downtown city with history and good food. You could tell the guide was a local and saying hi to everyone on the street like they were family. The food at the end was delicious.
An informative wine tour and the chance to tour the cellar that is in a volcanic cave? So awesome, especially since the cave was 20-30 degrees cooler since it was 90 degrees out. The wine was good, the lunch spot was super cute, and it was a great little experience.
The whole day was great from beginning to end. Touring a vineyard and learning from the actual family that owns the vineyard was amazing. I highly recommend this tour!
Paula was the best tour guide or wine tasting host ever. Her knowledge, her great communication skills and her caring made for a meaningful experience, fun and enriching experience.
I arrived in Italy with my partner, but he was busy for work, so I took the tour on my own. I was staying in a villa very close to Frascati. It was easy from the main square to walk to the train station. We had two guides - 1 for the winery and 1 for the walk through Frascati and lunch. The person at the winery was a bit harder to understand, but super friendly. She was very animated during the tasting which helped with understanding. I've never experienced a wine tasting like it. SO MEMORABLE. And the wine was fantastic. 2 whites and 1 red. The guide for the lunch introduced us to the local way of eating. I enjoyed getting dropped in the culture. The group was fairly small and everyone got along so well. It was so fun. Loved this tour.
Take this tour!! My husband and I took this tour to get out of Rome for the day. Easy to navigate from the Termini Station to the tour pick up point. The vineyard was beautiful! Our guide was part of the family who owns it and gave us great information but not information that was boring or over people's head who just have a basic wine knowledge. We then had a great walk around Frascati and an aperitivo and then an AMAZING lunch where the wine was flowing. We had a great, eclectic group and the conversation was lively and we got to know so really amazing people. Highly recommend!
Paola was fantastic! It was such an informative and interesting tour we thoroughly enjoyed it. I would highly recommend it. Paola is clearly very passionate about making of wine. I really learned a lot. Very enjoyable.
This was the perfect wine tour for a day trip outside of Rome. It was a very nice arrangement with wine tasting at their family-owned farm in the morning and then a guided tour around Frascati with the opportunity to try different dishes in a traditional bakery. At the end we was served a classic Italian lunch. Can not recommed this tour enough!
Ciao Emma! Thank you so much for your kind words :) We hope to see you back in Frascati one day... Grazie!
The meeting instructions were clear and accurate. The guide at the winery was fun and able to answer all our questions. The guide at the village was also fun and entertaining. Wine and food were great. An easy fun 1/2 day from Rome.
Ciao! Thank you so much for your kind words. We had a great time showing you around our town! grazie!
The tour of the winery with Paola was great! So informative of the area, the family winery, and the tour of the creepy cave was really enjoyable. Where it fell down for us was the hand off to the lady for the tour of Frascati and the lunch. She was extremely “dismissive” and not very nice. It was too warm for the walking tour of the town, and why anyone needed the porchetta sandwich and crappy wine before lunch was questionable. We’d give the winery and vineyard portion a 5, but the second half a 2.
Thank you for your review and the great feedback on the winery portion of your day! While the midday heat can make walking a challenge, the town tour and traditional porchetta stop are carefully designed to give guests an authentic taste of Frascati’s historic culinary culture. Our guides are deeply dedicated to providing a welcoming experience, and we appreciate your valuable feedback.
