Private Insider Wine & Gastronomy Experiences
Hosted by Chef Marcus & Jamie Guiliano
Barolo – Alta Langa – Gavi – Chocolate – Historic Castles – Underground Cellars
Private custom travel also available for groups, families, and culinary clubs.
Travel through Northern Italy’s most celebrated wine landscapes, from the rolling vineyards of Gavi and Barolo to hidden chocolate makers, medieval villages, ancient underground cellars, and one of Italy’s great culinary cities.
Piedmont rewards those who take their time, offering a serene landscape of rolling hills, fog-draped vineyards, and stone villages. As you linger over lunch, explore underground cellars, and listen to winemakers’ tales, you discover the region’s depth. Jamie and Marcus have cultivated meaningful connections with local families, owners, and producers, rather than relying on tourism offices or reservation desks, which transforms the experience. The most unforgettable moments in Piedmont are often those not found in guidebooks.
Milan gateway, Gavi, Alta Langa, Barolo, Langhe, Turin, Lake Orta, Roero, Northern Piedmont, and the hidden villages that make the region feel personal, layered, and alive.
Private winery visits, chef-led experiences, historic castles, underground wine caves, luxury countryside hotels, chocolate artisans, long lunches, Barolo and Alta Langa, aperitivo culture, small villages, and slow travel shaped by chef-led hospitality.
Join a hosted Piedmont departure, or ask us to design a private version for your own group.
Private winery experiences, producer relationships, owner introductions, family hospitality, long lunches, small groups, and insider access. Because often the owner becomes your guide.
Expect chef-driven meals, vineyard lunches, long afternoons, and culinary moments shaped by the people, places, and traditions of Northern Italy.
Each day is designed around the rhythm of place: wine country, historic castles, underground cellars, chocolate artisans, and one of Italy’s great culinary cities.
Arrive near Milan and head into wine country, where city streets give way to rolling hills, villages, and vineyard-covered landscapes. Your first stop is Calatroni in Oltrepò Pavese — a hidden gem for Pinot Nero and traditional method sparkling — where lunch around the table with wines and introductions sets the tone for the journey ahead. Settle into Villa Sparina in the hills of Gavi, then gather for a welcome dinner at La Gallina with refined regional cuisine and estate wines.
Mornings in wine country move differently — coffee lasts longer, breakfast is slower. Visit Picollo Ernesto, a family-run Gavi producer Marcus and Jamie personally discovered, where no tourism buses go and conversations flow naturally from wine into family history and life. After a private tour of Villa Sparina, head into nearby Gavi for aperitivo, then gather at Osteria Piemontemare for an evening of inventive cuisine blending Piedmont and the sea.
Begin with handcrafted chocolate at Bodrato — one of Piedmont’s sweetest hidden treasures — before the road leads deeper into Langhe wine country, where vineyard-covered hills roll endlessly and lunch arrives among it all. Then descend into Contratto’s historic underground tunnels, where hundreds of thousands of bottles age beneath the surface in one of Italy’s most fascinating sparkling wine experiences. Settle into La Villa for a quiet countryside dinner.
The roads narrow, vineyard hills steepen, and names like La Morra, Monforte, and Serralunga begin appearing outside the window. Visit benchmark producers G.D. Vajra and Marchesi di Grésy, stepping into cellars and hearing stories that explain why Nebbiolo has become one of the world’s most admired grapes. Lunch unfolds slowly — multiple courses, shared bottles, long conversations — before settling into Tenuta Bussia for dinner overlooking Barolo country.
Continue deeper into Barolo country with visits to Casa Mirafiore and Borgogno, producers rooted in the region’s history — but this day is also about pace. Long lunches, quiet roads, and unexpected conversations fill the spaces between destinations. The afternoon at Tenuta Bussia is intentionally left open for the spa, a glass of wine with vineyard views, or simply doing nothing. Dinner at Felicin feels less like a reservation and more like a gathering among friends.
Explore botanical spirits and Italian craftsmanship at Bordiga before lunch at a local trattoria where regional dishes and hospitality take center stage. Continue to Fontanabianca for sweeping Barbaresco views and family warmth, then arrive at one of the journey’s great surprises — Castello di Guarene, an actual castle where historic halls and vineyard landscapes set the stage for an unforgettable stay. Dinner at Limonaia feels like stepping into another era.
Turin may be one of Italy’s most overlooked cities — elegant boulevards, historic cafés, chocolate shops, covered walkways, and aperitivo culture combine into something unlike anywhere else. Explore through the eyes of Marcus and Jamie: legendary cafés, hidden corners, beautiful streets, and one of Italy’s true culinary capitals. As evening arrives, aperitivo culture takes over. No schedules, no rushing — just Turin.
Today slows intentionally with one more winery visit and one more lunch — a final chance to sit around the table reflecting on favorite wines, meals, and memories. The farewell dinner feels less like an ending and more like a celebration of everything experienced together, because great trips don’t end with itineraries — they end with stories.
Before returning home, discover Lake Orta — one of Northern Italy’s hidden gems, smaller and quieter than Italy’s famous lakes, intimate and personal. Walk the waterfront, order one more espresso, take one final photograph, and pause for a moment. Before airports, flights, and real life return, Italy offers one last reminder: there is always another story waiting.
Expect wines shaped by altitude, soil, Mediterranean influence, and Piedmont’s deep relationship with food and place. Barolo, Barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Cortese, Moscato, Pinot Nero, and rare small-production wines rarely available outside the region.
Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) or Milan Linate Airport (LIN).
Only 8–14 guests are invited into this hosted Piedmont experience. Leave your details and Marcus or Jamie will personally share more tour details.
Your details are used only to follow up about the Piedmont hosted journey or private travel request.
