Italy’s Rooftop
June 20th-28th, 2027
We’ll meet in Milan and go get lunch, then make the drive up to Mont Blanc before we cut into the mountains and head eastbound. What a food and wine tour this will be.
Your first night will be at the quietest place you’d ever want to be, and will only get better, and more mountain-y, from there. We’ll learn about polenta, fontina cheese, and homemade sausage. Itay’s not ONLY about pizza and pasta!
From there we’ll make our way to the Italian/Swiss border and spend a few days yodeling until we end up a the top of a mountain drinking beer and enjoying a fondue. We’ll exit the mountains in südtirol and pay a visit to a couple of our favorite wineries and enjoy their mountain white, red, and sparkling wines.
This one will end on a high note in Verona and you can go onward from there or Venice, or almost anywhere you like!
Total Estimated cost person: €6000 with all lunches, dinners, lodging, entry fees, and transportation included for a trip that will be about a day and half longer than some of our others, so that we can go slooooooooowwwwww….
Where We’ll Go…
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The city in the shadow of Mont Blanc, and the gateway to one of our favorite places in the whole of the Alps. We’re not publishing the name here, because we don’t want the secret to get out.
You’ll be introduced to a bunch of wine you’ve never heard of, and eat the best polenta and fontina cheese of your life.
And you’ll sleep like a baby.
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Where?
That’s right, this is a valley just across the Swiss border from Terano and the home of some of the great culinary treats we’ve come to know well—honey, pasta, and Ricola cough candies.
Of course what would a trip into Switerzland be without a cog-rail train ride to the top of Alp Grum?
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One of the cities in Italy everyone should know, but is far less visited than others. At the foot of the dolomites, and the capital of südtirol, it boasts some of the most delicious high-elevation wine on the planet to go along with a hearty, dumpling-filled cuisine.
We’ll visit two of our favorite wineries on this leg of the trip—Richard Tauber in Brixen, and La Corvée near Trento.
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We’ll finish the tour for just two reasons:
1) The truly fantastic olive oil of Lake Garda
2) Dinner at our friend Matteo’s
And that’s enough!