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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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caja umbria sagrantino bike tours italyThe hillsides of Umbria are covered with expanses of vineyards and olive orchards. Around the town on Montefalco, most of the vineyards are dedicated to their natvie black grape, Sagrantino. Rarely seen outside of Umbria, Sagrantino grapes produce robust wines, with powerful tannins that, in the right hands, result in wines with great depth and potential for aging.

Terre de’ Trinci, located in Foligno, has been producing Sagrantino based wines since 1950, initially going into business as a way to preserved this wine and it’s place in the local traditions and culture. In the early 1960’s, they became the first producer to make and bottle the ‘dry’ version of this wine.

In 1992, Montefalco Sagrantino was granted DOCG status, and Terre de’ Trinci rededicated itself to it’s production with a renovation of it’s facilities, modernization, development of quality certifications and more emphasis on the aging process. Today, they continue to work to combine both innovation and tradition, as they continue to make the classic Sagrantino, as they introduce more modern style wines, blending Sagrantino with international varietals such as Cabernet and Merlot.

Their 2001 Cajo Rosso dell'Umbria is one excellent example of their modern style wines. A blend of equal parts Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sagrantino, it is a deep ruby red, with intense aromas of dark cherry, fig, with vegetal notes. It is both fruity and earthy, with hints of tobacco. Extremely smooth and well balanced between the fruit, a nice acidity, and some tannins to finish.

Enjoy with pasta and a meat ragu, grilled meats, or medium aged cheeses.