Food and wine tour of San Vito Chietino

About this tour

Spend a full day exploring the gastronomic heart of Abruzzo's Costa dei Trabocchi with a knowledgeable local guide. Based in the charming fishing village of Marina di Vito Chietino, you'll taste five wines at a family winery, eat fresh-caught seafood lunch perched on a traditional trabocco (ancient wooden fishing platform), and learn how locals press their olive oil before sampling it with bread, cured meats and cheese. Nine to ten hours of genuine food culture, not tourist theatre.

Highlights

• Five-wine tasting at Cantina Vini Olivastri vineyard
• Lunch on a trabocco, a centuries-old coastal fishing structure
• Harvest and press techniques at a working olive mill
• Extra virgin oil tasting with local charcuterie and bread
• Marina di Vito Chietino village exploration with local guide
• Abruzzo wine, oil and seafood trilogy

What to expect

Your guide meets you in Marina di Vito Chietino and takes you first to the vineyards, where you'll taste five wines whilst learning how the winery operates. Next, you'll descend to the trabocco—a skeletal wooden platform that juts into the Adriatic—where locals serve you a seafood-focused meal. In the afternoon, you walk through olive groves to the mill. Here, the miller explains pressing methods and you taste the oil's fruitiness against warm bread, prosciutto and local cheese. Expect a relaxed pace with time for questions and photos.

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