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Small Group Private Tour Specialist

Plan your Italy adventure with the small group private tour specialist. Escape overtourism and discover the back roads and authentic small towns with us. Kathy and Vernon create your perfect trip, with off-the-beaten path destinations, activities from walks and bike rides to city tours and shopping, and expert-led culinary adventures.

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Food and Wine

Any tour of Italy is incomplete without indulging in the amazing food and wine. But to truly appreciate It requires an understanding of the regional history, culture and geography. All become part of your adventure with Kathy, chef, food blogger, and Certified Italian Wine Professional, and Vernon, mountain guide, MS in European Literature and avid history enthusiast.

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Your Unique Adventure

Not all private trips are custom. Most tour companies don't have the flexibility to deviate from their set itineraries, so there are always compromises. With Kathy and Vernon, your adventure will be as unique as you are, and your itinerary will be personally designed us to meet the desires and varied interests of your group.

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The ItaliaOutdoors Difference


Truly Personalized Service and a Custom Plan for Every Trip

Kathy and Vernon

NO MIDDLEMEN

You communicate directly with Vernon and Kathy. We know your dreams for an Italy adventure, we’ll have it ready for you when you arrive.

No Group Too Small

SMALL FOOTPRINT

Our small footprint allows us to travel like locals and enjoy spontaneous adventures as we explore the path less traveled.

 

Custom Plan

UNIQUE ITINERARY

Each tour itinerary is unique and serves as a framework for an exceptional journey, where a thoughtful plan adjusts to your pace.

 

Authenticity

KNOWLEDGE

We focus on just a few select tours to provide an exceptional level of regional knowledge and an unforgettable authentic experience.

Travel after COVID-19: How do you wish to travel in Italy when we are able to return? In a small private group of your family and friends? Plenty of outdoor explorations? Off the beaten track destinations far from tourist crowds? Private cooking classes, wine tours, small intimate hotels? That's how we've been traveling for ten years. Plan your adventure in Italy with Italiaoutdoors Food and Wine, the custom tour specialist.

Customize Your Adventure - Food - Wine - Walk - Hike - Bike

With Italy's "Best Local Guide 2013"

Read about our tours in Adventure Cyclist August 2015

Our passion is creating intimate, personalized active food and wine adventures that explore an authentic Italy
- its outdoor beauty, its hidden back roads, its small family producers, its traditional wines, at your preferred pace.
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Vivallis Moscato Giallo custom bike tours dolomitesThe Vivallis winery in Trentino is the ‘offspring’ of a longstanding producer cooperative in the area, the Società Agricoltori Vallagarina. This cooperative was started in 1908, when a group of farmers from Vallagarina, led by Don Giovanni Battista Panizza, joined together to share cultivation, production and distribution knowledge.

Vallagarina is a unique valley, stretching from the southern part of Trentino, along the Adige River as it flows towards Verona. The vineyards of this valley wind through villages and medieval castles, like fortified Castel Beseno and Castello di Sabbionara di Avio. The town of Roverto is the cultural and historical center of this winemaking region.

The hilly landscape of this region brings with it large temperature variations and sun exposure, which provides the optimal environment for the cultivation of many varieties of grapes. Vivallis therefore can produce a wide range of wine, based on grapes that find the right home in this region: Cabernet in the Nogaredo area, Merlot in Borgo Sacco, Chardonnay in Prà dei Fanti, and Pinot Bianco, Muller-Thurgau, and Sauvignon Blanc. Indigenous grape varietals also thrive here, Marzemino Gentile, Nosiola, and Moscato Giallo.

The Vivallis trademark embodies S.A.V.’s heritage; the first two letters, VI, are the first two letters of many Italian wine terms, including viticoltori (winegrowers), vite (vine), vino (wine) and vita (life). The remainder, vallis, comes from the Latin word for valley.

Vivallis back label bike and wine tours italyI tasted the 2009 Vivallis Moscato Giallo. The grapes for this wine hail from a highly rated single vineyard in the hillsides of Besenello, Vigna Giere. It is an amazingly aromatic white wine, with strong scents of flowers, lemon, and tropical fruits. A nice mouth feel is presented with a fresh elegance and pleasant sweetness. This is a classic dessert wines, pairing well with regional cakes and strudels. It would also be a nice accompaniment to blue cheese.