Pasta Perfected: Culinary Adventure and Wine - Rome Countryside

About this tour

Spend five hours learning to shape fresh pasta by hand at a working winery outside Rome, then eat what you've made alongside the estate's wines. You'll start with hotel collection, work through the fundamentals with a trained chef in the vineyard setting, and finish with a proper lunch built around your pasta and local produce. It's a straightforward introduction to how Romans actually cook, set in the countryside rather than a city kitchen.

Highlights

• Hand-roll fresh pasta under chef guidance at family winery
• Taste vineyard's own wines paired with your meal
• Lunch features pasta you've just made and regional ingredients
• Countryside setting outside Rome with working vineyards
• Return hotel transport included
• Suitable for all fitness levels, prams and infant seats available

What to expect

After pickup from your hotel, you'll arrive at the winery and move straight into the kitchen. The chef walks you through pasta dough—mixing, kneading, resting—then demonstrates shaping by hand before you have a go yourself. You'll make enough for lunch. Once finished, you'll move to the dining area where your pasta gets cooked and plated with simply prepared vegetables, meats or sauces from local suppliers. Wine tastings happen throughout, with staff explaining what you're drinking and why it pairs with what's on your plate. The whole thing takes about five hours start to finish.

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