Cooking & Wine Lovers' Little Indulgence Tour
in Piedmont's Barolo Wine Country in Italy

• Cooking Tour Itinerary
• Cooking Tour Dates & Prices
• To Reserve
• Terms & Conditions
• Detailed Cooking Tour Description--You'll feel you're in Italy!
• Cooking Tour Members' Comments
• Accommodations
• More pictures of Piedmont

Tour at a Glance: Brief Description

The Magnificent Barolo & Barbaresco Wine Country: beauty, great cuisine, wines & people

Renowned for some of Italy's best red wines, Barolo and Barbaresco, and for its outstanding gastronomy, this small area is about 70 km. or 30 miles in hills south of Turin in the Piedmont region.

In your minivan and on your strolls and optional hikes with your local Italian guides, you'll explore nine hilltowns, many crowned with castles, and enjoy the beauty and peace of paths in vineyards.

You'll feel the tranquillity seep into you in this peaceful countryside. You'll stand in awe admiring panoramas in a poetic landscape of series of gentle, green quilted hills and valleys covered with vineyards, fields and forests. On a clear day you can see all the way to the Italian Alps.

Italian Cooking Lessons and Cuisine: a wonderful variety of people, places and tastes to experience!

During your six day cooking and wine adventure in Piedmont, Italy, you'll cook with local chefs in their kitchens in four top restaurants in different towns in the Barolo and Barbaresco wine country. You'll savour an amazing array of regional dishes in fine Italian restaurants and at winery lunches paired with a variety of wines: Barbera, Barbaresco, Barolo and more. Italian dishes like: a red pepper flan with fonduta sauce risotto pink with Barolo wine thin delicate yellow tajarin pasta covered with truffle shavings baked guinea hen with rosemary a hazelnut and chocolate cake with Moscato wine zabaglione semi-freddo of hazelnut torrone candy.

Chef Franco in appetizer cooking lesson in Piedmont

Lots of Barolo & Barbaresco Wineries to Discover Big and Small: meet some of the owners

You'll enjoy exclusive tours of the Ratti family historic wine museum and Barolo and Barbaresco wineries often with the owners, from historic to modern, from big to small, from famous to undiscovered, from traditional style to international style wines. A wide range of wineries for you to experience! You'll love all the banter with our warm and friendly cast of characters! You get to know a vast array of local characters you'd never meet otherwise: small family restaurant owners to a chef presiding over many kitchens, local Barolo wine celebrities to philosophical father winery owners, a self sufficient farm family with 6 children, and my dear friend and local colleague, Elio, born in the area. You'll feel like your local friend is taking you to see his favourite people and places! You'll feel Italian for a week!

Brezza family winery owners in their wine cellars in Barolo in Piedmont

Accomodation: 3 Star Hotel with Wine Country Hill and Castle Views

You'll stay at a three star hotel in the town of Barolo, owned and run by a warm, hospitable, local Brezza family of wine producers. The modern rooms are pretty and tastefully furnished with all the amenities. Many rooms have views of the vineyards and Barolo castle right in the town. On a hot day, you can lounge on the patio around the swimming pool and gaze at the vineyards. Pictures of accommodation

Hotel in Barolo

You'll also enjoy dining at the Brezza family's restaurant, steps from your room, well known throughout the area for its wonderful food, especially traditional Piedmontese plates like Brasato al Barolo. Downstairs you can also visit their wine cellars and sit around a long wooden table lit by candles and taste their Barolo wines.

Cooking Tour Itinerary

Detailed Cooking Tour Description--You'll feel you're in Italy!

2008 Cooking Tour Dates:

Any time on request for two people or more--ask us for dates you like.

Join other people who have requested any 4 days between May 15-27, 2008

2008 Cooking Tour Prices:

Prices are in Euros and subject to currency exchange fluctuation. Land only, no airfare.

For 2-7 people: 1525 Euros. (approx $2245 US or $2260 CAD) land only, no airfare.
Single supplement: please ask

Included:

• hotel with private bath and continental breakfast
• cooking lessons with full menu meals
• lunch with farm family
• excursions
• private transport in minivan
• local guides

Not included:

• 2 lunches
• wines with your meals so you can choose which wines you want to drink.

Cooking Tour Itinerary
Cooking Tour Members' Comments
Sample Tour Recipe
Why Travel in Italy With Us

To Reserve: Contact Margaret Cowan at margaret@italycookingschools.com or call 1-800-557-0370 or 604-681-4074 or fax 604-681-4909 (Pacific time).

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