Wine and Food Tours in Italy
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Puglia: private wine tour, tasting + seafood lunch

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119 Schola Sarmenti

Private winery visit and Wine Spectator Top 100 wines tasting

2 families of winemakers, innovators & rediscoverers of antiquities

The perfect wine pairing fish LUNCH in the historic center of Nardò

The poetic vision of 2 families of winemakers, innovators & rediscoverers of antiquities, reaching Wine Spectator Top 100 listing!!!

In the warm lands of Salento, with love and dedication, one of the most beautiful stories of generations of vines and strong hands was born.

The Schola Sarmenti winery was founded in 1999, when the Marra and Calabrese families made the first harvest to produce great wines from native vines, such as Fiano, Negroamaro and Primitivo, a great expression of the precious territory of Salento.

In 2015 we reached the Olympus of wine, the Top 100 ranking by Wine Spectator!

The beloved guests of WFTI will walk among the vineyards, they’ll enter the ancient cellars restored and equipped with cutting-edge technologies, the’ll shake the rough hands of the winemakers, they’ll savor the great tradition that has reached the Top 100 and also that pinch of desire for fashion and modernity that is our sparkling wine!

To conclude in beauty and relaxation with a perfect wine pairing fish LUNCH in the historic center of Nardò.

Puglia

LOCATION:
Via Generale Cantore, 37 Nardò (LE)

STYLE OF EXPERIENCE:
RARE WINES – Negroamaro & Malvasia Nera

DURATION:
Duration on-site (hours. ±1): 5

 

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The Schola Sarmenti cellar: an authentic Apulian “winery”.

  • Wine tour guided by your Ambassador through the Schola Sarmenti Cellars which are located in an ancient structure dating back to 1850.
  • You will visit the entire company including the bottling and vinification departments, and the suggestive barrel cellars inside the old cisterns.
  • At the end of the itinerary, you will be delighted by a guided tasting of 5 wines (including Nardò Nerìo Riserva, Top 100 by Wine Spectator).
  • The tasting will be accompanied by taralli and Leccine olives, typical Apulian friselline seasoned with EVO Oil of our production, traditional Apulian cheeses and salami and local focaccia, to better savor the different wines.
  • Perfect wine pairing LUNCH in typical restaurant in the ancient town of Nardò.
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Wine Spectator TOP 100 2015 # 93, 90 pts
Schola Sarmenti Nardò Nerìo Riserva 2012

A silky red, with sweet, ripe flavors of sun-dried black cherry and date, underscored by rich hints of wood smoke and mineral.
This is well-knit, featuring sinewy tannins and accents of garrigue and graphite.
Drink now through 2025. 3,200 cases made. —AN

The cellar: here the hand-picked fruits become prodigious wines.

Star vaults, ancient walls, this is the holiest place, where the last rite before bottling takes place: maturation.

Inside wooden and steel barrels, the wine slowly acquires all its flavors and personality.

Every inch of that underground world tells the story of this cellar, the result of an architectural recovery that preserves the links between past, present and future.

Here let yourself be inebriated by the succession of unusual alchemical liturgies, for the sole purpose of delivering yet another divine miracle to the public.

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The perfect seafood wine pairing lunch

  • Appetizers – Seared Purple Gallipoli prawns on Passion Fruit sauce and Burratina Salentina
  • First Course
    Watercolor risotto with asparagus cream and sea urchin pulp
  • Main course
    Local monkfish medallion on red beetroot soup and crunchy potatoes, orange fennel
  • Seasonal fruit and desserts… at the Chef’s imagination…

(sample, will vary accordind to seasons)

The perfect seafood wine pairing lunch

Drinks:

  • still and sparkling water
  • Wine Tasting Cantina Schola Sarmenti, a different wine for each course, including the Wine Spectator Top 100 Schola Sarmenti Nardò Nerìo Riserva
  • Schola Sarmenti sparkling wine
  • Coffee
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ON REQUEST

  • FULL DAY SIGHTSEEING IN LUXURY CAR, LIMO, VAN OR HELICOPTER with English speaking professional driver/pilot. Departure from any main location, example Rome, Civitavecchia, Livorno, La Spezia, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Venice etc.
  • PRO Photographer/videomaker
  • Mr. Marco Tenerini as your “emotional storytelling guide” for the whole day.

PRICES

From 560 €

Rates per person:

ADULT (≥18 yo):
Pax 2: € 560
Pax 3: € 560
Pax 4: € 560
Pax 5: € 560
Pax 6: € 560
Pax 7: € 560
Pax 8: € 560
MINOR ( yo): Pax € on demand
INFANT ( yo): Pax € on demand

Prices for experience only; ask for transfers prices.
Just tell us how many people and your starting location.

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SUPERSTARS

  • The restored ancient cellar
  • Top line wine tasting
  • Perfect wine pairing fish lunch

TOP PRODUCTS

  • Nardò Nerìo Riserva, Wine Spectator Top 100
  • Our unexpected sparkling rosè
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STEP BY STEP

  • Arrival in the winery
  • Meeting with your private Ambassador
  • Welcome Italian coffee
  • Guided walk among the vineyards
  • Visit of the suggestive barrel cellars inside the old cisterns
  • Visit the bottling area
  • Visit vinification department
  • Shake the rough hands of the winemakers
  • Guided tasting of 5 wines (including Nardò Nerìo Riserva, Top 100 by Wine Spectator)
  • Tasting accompanied by taralli and Leccine olives, typical Apulian friselline seasoned with EVO Oil of our production, traditional Apulian cheeses and salami and local focaccia
  • Perfect wine pairing LUNCH in typical restaurant in the ancient town of Nardò

SUPERSTARS

  • The restored ancient cellar
  • Top line wine tasting
  • Perfect wine pairing fish lunch

TOP PRODUCTS

  • Nardò Nerìo Riserva, Wine Spectator Top 100
  • Our unexpected sparkling rosè

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