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Lambrusco making: winery tour
Follow us on a trip to the Lambrusco wine region in Parma. Winery visit and wine tasting included.
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">During this 3 hours tour, we’ll pass through <strong>hills</strong> and <strong>vineyards</strong>. Then we'll reach a <strong>Lambrusco winery</strong> to start our tasting.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Lambrusco, the best sparkling red wine</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Do not miss the opportunity to get in touch with the <strong>most</strong> <strong>famous sparkling red wine</strong>. Produced in the hills around the city of Parma, Lambrusco is something more than wine. It’s a liquid whose <strong>color</strong> is full of <strong>joy</strong> and <strong>happiness</strong>. Whose smell brings <strong>fresh red fruits</strong>. Furthermore, Lambrusco is <strong>a brand</strong> acknowledged worldwide for the quality of the product. And it is the <strong>best-selling wine</strong> in Italy. That is why you can’t miss this tour if you are a <strong>wine lover</strong>.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">We are going to bring you where <strong>farmers</strong> have been doing Lambrusco for millennia. We’ll see the <strong>typical vineyards</strong>, with <strong>tall rows</strong>. Here grapes are growing strong, assuming an intense color with shades of purple and blue. Then we’ll move inside a <strong>winery</strong> situated in a panoramic position. Here an <strong>oenologist</strong> will explain to us the secrets. How Lambrusco wine generates from those fragrant grapes.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Then we’ll proceed to the <strong>cellars</strong>, where the “magic” happens. Here you will feel the sweet and <strong>intriguing scent</strong> of the fermenting grapes. You will get in touch with the whole <strong>wine-making process</strong> until bottling. Then we’ll see the <strong>barrels</strong> used for <strong>aging</strong> and the specific bottles this sparkling red wine needs. This bottle's name is <em>Borgognona</em> or <em>Borgognotta</em>. It has a thicker glass and a special cork, to preserve the fragrance.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">The tour will end with a <strong>wine and food tasting</strong> served on the panoramic terrace. There it will be possible to practice what we have learned. Matching the wines with a selection of <strong>parmesan food</strong>.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Why Lambrusco is a good red wine worldwide</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">While thinking about Italian famous wines, few names are those to remember. Chianti, Barolo, Prosecco, and Lambrusco, stand out amongst the other. Lambrusco is a <strong>sparkling red wine</strong> produced in the <strong>Emilia Romagna region</strong>. Lambrusco is versatile and appreciated worldwide. Everybody, young and old ones, can drink it with ease. It is available in two kinds, <strong>sweet </strong>or<strong> dry</strong>. Both versions have an alcoholic percentage of 11%-12%.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Lambrusco, one of the oldest Italian wines</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Yes, Lambrusco is one of the oldest wines ever made in Italy. <strong>Archeologists</strong> have found its <strong>seeds</strong> evidence related to the Bronze Age. Then we can rely on the direct testimonials, the <strong>Romans writers</strong>. <strong>Virgil</strong> mentioned <em>vitis labrusca</em> in his fifth chapter of the <em>Bucolicae</em>. <strong>Cato</strong> (<em>De agri culture</em>), <strong>Varrone</strong> (<em>De re rustica</em>) and <strong>Pliny the Elder</strong> (<em>Naturalis Historia</em>) provides further information. Lambrusco grape variety seems to be an <strong>Italian endemic</strong>. Its name originates from the Latin terms <em>labrum</em> (rim, margin) and <em>ruscum</em> (spontaneous plant). Romans used the word <em>labrusca</em> to name a spontaneous growth of this vine. A variety that appeared in the perimeters of the fields. Many things have changed. Romans drank this wine <strong>refermenting</strong> it inside amphoras. While nowadays the best Lambruscos are those refermented in bottles.</p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:#57646f;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em">Are you interested? Do you want to know more? Follow us on this tour and you’ll discover everything. How an indigenous grape variety, once domesticated, creates one of the most loved wines in the world.</p>
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€ 69
Emilia-Romagna's Typical products Tasting Tour from Parma
Enjoy this full day tour to discover the typical Emilia Romagna products. Visit a cheese factory, smell the flavour of Parma Ham and enjoy an excellent local wine tasting.
<p>The Emilia-Romagna region is renowned as one of Italy’s top culinary destinations, and on this small-group tour from Parma, you’ll get to discover some of its most delectable highlights. First, you’ll reach a Parmigiano Reggiano factory where you’ll learn how the famous cheese is made. At the end of the visit will be offered a tasting of three different aging of Parmigiano Reggiano with local red wine and and other typical products. From here we’ll reach the Parma Ham factory. The guide will introduce the visit talking briefly about the history and visiting the “cold stage”, where the fresh meats are processed. You’ll have the chance to See the production phases of this renowned kind of cold cut. End your tour with a tasting of Parma ham and savor its sweetness and unique flavor. </p><p>Then we’ll reach a famous winery that produce white and red wine from this area. It will be possible to walk around the vineyard and then move inside the cellars, where experts will explain the winemaking process up bottling. At the end of the visit there will be a tasting of three different types of white and red wines.</p>
€ 88
Parmigiano-Reggiano Factory Tour from Parma
Visit a traditional Parmigiano Reggiano cheese factory. Learn the origins of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese on a visit to a cheese factory in Parma.
<p>After the guide has briefly introduced the Parmigiano Reggiano historical outline we start our visit in the local “casello”. Here is where the milk is cooked inside “caldere” and the Parmigiano Reggiano comes out.</p>
<p>You’ll have the chance to visit the brine room and the aging room where it will be possible to “beat” the cheese as a Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium experts does. At the end of the visit there will be a tasting of three different aging of Parmigiano Reggiano with local red wine and and other typical Parmesan products.<br /> </p>
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€ 59
Ferrari Museum and Balsamic Vinegar Tasting tour
Immerse yourself in the Italian way of life and discover the enchanting Emilia Romagna region with this small group tour. Visit the Ferrari museum and taste the typical Balsamic Vinegar.
<p>First, you set off for your first stop at the world-famous Ferrari museum in Maranello. Learn about the history of Ferrari and live the dream through exhibitions of images, vintage cars and F1 single-seaters. The guide will lead you through the museum. Optionally you can have the chance to drive one of the most famous cars in the world. We proceed the tour reaching the Balsamic vinegar factory. The traditional balsamic vinegar, produced in the areas of Modena and Reggio Emilia, is known as Italy’s black gold. The visit begins outside the building where the balsamic vinegar is produced. The tour is going on with ancient black barrels. There are barrels made with different wood to give the right smell and taste to the balsamic vinegar. You’ll taste different vinegar with different aging, from 20 to 100 years old. The tour will end with an Emilia Romagna typical products tasting.</p>
€ 69
Small Group Parma Ham Farm tour
Explore the secrets of Parma Ham and discover how each stage of the processing of this renowned Italian product takes place.
Get your tour and visit a farm in Parma to see how Parma Ham is made. Explore the secrets behind Prosciutto di Parma and learn how it goes through each phase to make this Italian well-known product. <br/>The tour starts with the pick up at the meeting point. Our driver will bring you to a farm in the Parma region. It is where porks are raised and the famous Prosciutto di Parma is made by the Italian ham masters. In this farm, you will be introduced to the process of ham making and the story that holds behind. <br/><br/>The process starts with the selection of pork legs, then comes salting. Salting is a very delicate process that must be done only by professionals. After salting, the hams rest for 2 or 3 months. You will also hear about the other phases of ham making: washing, drying, greasing, curing and the final step, branding. In the and enjoy parma ham with a glass of Malvasia dei Colli wine.
€ 69