08 – 13 May 2025 | Spring in Piedmont
Spring in Piedmont costs €2495 per person based on two sharing. There is a €300 single-occupancy supplement.
This five-night accompanied trip is all-inclusive, except for flights and insurance.
Spring in Piedmont costs €2495 per person based on two sharing. There is a €300 single-occupancy supplement.
This five-night accompanied trip is all-inclusive, except for flights and insurance.
Banish the winter blues with this unforgettable spring trip in the mountains and hills of Piemonte. Enjoy world-class wines and winery visits, along with delicious food including a legendary Cinzia Long picnic lunch and dinner at an acclaimed restaurant. Learn some of the history of this fascinating region. There are optional walks in both the mountains and the hills.
This trip is all-inclusive apart from flights and insurance.
This means all transfers including airport transfers, accommodation, all meals with wine, a masterclass Barolo tasting presentation with James, two further tastings with winemakers – of which one is partnered by a Cinzia Long legendary picnic, and some fine optional walks.
We stay in two locations. The first is a Piemontese villa in a valley of the western Alps, appointed with understated elegance; and the second is a beautifully restored farmhouse on a working winery in the Barolo hills.
Nowhere in Italy is as proud and committed to the regionality and tradition of its cuisine as Piemonte. Add to this the country’s largest concentration of DOC and DOCG wines (the highest level appellations), including world class Barolo and Barbaresco. This trip is a heaven for lovers of food and wine!
Cinzia chooses all of the menus to paint the full picture of the finest typical regional cuisine, and at least one of the meals is at a Michelin-starred restaurant.
In addition, Cinzia prepares one of her legendary picnics, which we enjoy in the company of a winemaker, who gives a tasting presentation of their wines.
James gives a masterclass tutored tasting of premium Barolo wines, in which we explore the influence of location and climate on the wine.
We will be very happy to accommodate dietary requirements but please do indicate your requests on the form when we send it.
The Alps and Barolo hills are beautiful in Spring.
Temperatures are likely to be pleasantly warm, maybe even hot, but inclement weather can occur, so bring warmer clothes and waterproofs.
The trip includes three delightful walks. One of these is in the higher mountains, where good footwear and walking poles are essential.
Walking is not obligatory!
Collections from Turin airport or Pinerolo station on Thursday 08 May 2025, with an evening drop-off at Turin airport or Turin city centre on Tuesday 13 May. An evening meal is is not included on either day.
BA fly daily between Turin and Gatwick.
At the time of writing, a landslip on the TGV line between Paris and Turin means services are either routing via Zurich and Milan, or require a rail replacement bus service and a slow regional train into/out of Turin.
Intercontinental flights land at the Milan airports. Contact us to organise an airport transfer (2.5 – 3.5 hours depending on which airport).
If you would like to explore Turin then we can book an excellent four-star hotel in the city centre for you.
If you extend before the trip, you will need to take a regional train from Torino Porta Susa to Pinerolo, where we will meet you during the day on 8th. Services are hourly and cost €5.
If you extend after the trip, we can help with getting you into the city as we make our way to the airport.
Cinzia has designed a wonderful gastronomic tour of Turin. This is a three-hour walking tour of the city with Cinzia in person. The published price is €150 but she offers this to MTW customers for just €100. Please let us know if you would like to book.
Keen walkers might like to extend with one of our self-guided walking itineraries in Piemonte or Valle d’Aosta.
This trip takes place entirely within the region of Piemonte, an infinitely varied landscape and one of the world’s gastronomic heartlands.
Evening meet at Turin airport, from where we will transfer directly to Torre Pellice.
Customers extending in Turin before the trip should take the regional train from Porta Susa station to Pinerolo, where we will meet you at a pre-arranged time. Trains are hourly and a ticket costs €5.
Due to the flight timing, there is no meal booked for this first day. If you wish, we can make a recommendation and book a late dinner for you in Torre Pellice. Pay locally.
Join Cinzia to meet the friendly stallholders of Torre Pellice’s extensive weekly market.
This is followed by a light lunch in the town, which is included in your trip fee.
In the afternoon, explore the fascinating history of the town’s involvement in the Reformation and Partisan movements, with an entertaining talk and guided tour at the museum.
There is then plenty of time for you to explore the pretty town, set in its dramatic Alpine valley.
Dinner is in the hotel restaurant, which is famous across the region. This is included in your trip fee.
Build on the trip to the museum by exploring first-hand some legendary places in the valley’s history.
We drive up into the wild and undiscovered local valleys to visit some ancient and important locations. Here, far from from the tourist trail, the medieval Reformation and WW2 Partisan movements are brought vividly to life.
Walkers can hike with James to a mountaintop agriturismo, where we all meet to enjoy lunch and far-reaching views across the Piemontese plains and the valley of the River Po.
Dinner in an excellent local restaurant is included in the trip fee.
A morning transfer takes us to our next accommodation, a beautifully restored 17th-century farmhouse on a working winery.
Your hosts are one of the historic winemaking families of the ‘Langhe’ hills. Enjoy a legendary Cinzia Long picnic in the company of the winemaker, as he gives an extended tasting of his wines.
After lunch, you can relax in the b&b, take a stroll through the vineyards, or join James for a longer circular walk of around 7km.
Dinner is at a great restaurant in the famous wine town of Monforte d’Alba.
Walkers and non-walkers meet in the centre of Barolo town for a unique winetasting presentation led by James MacNay IWA.
Here we discover the history of winemaking in the area, as we taste our way through some premium quality Barolo wines. James demonstrates the influence of vintage and soil type on the Nebbiolo grapes and their famous wines.
The tasting is followed by a light lunch at a charming restaurant in the town.
After lunch, walkers continue on the trails, while non-walkers can visit the museum or stroll the streets.
Dinner is in a Michelin-star restaurant which offers traditional dishes in a classically elegant Piemontese environment. James picks some great wines from the extensive cellars.
The evening flight is quite late so we have a full day to extend our trip.
Before saying our farewells, we pay a visit our hosts’ underground cellars.
Our destination after that is the Marco Porello winery. Marco is a winemaker in the Roero, which is on the sandy left bank of the Tanaro river. Marco welcomes us into his winery and shares his excellent wines, which include the prestigious white Roero Arneis DOCG and red Roero DOCG ‘Valmaggiore’.
From there we eat one last lunch together at a traditional local restaurant.
Our final destination is a magnificent viewpoint above the city of Turin, from where we can see the city streets, its two rivers and the surrounding mountains. We will assist customers extending in Turin after the trip to reach their hotel, before heading to the airport for a final drop-off.
