- In the Lake district an elegant a relaxing hotel is waiting for our group. The entire property is air-conditioned, smoke-free and has a pool.
- Treatment: 6 days- 4 wine tastings – 5 meals wine included
DAY 1: ARRIVE MALPENSA AIRPORT
Meet your driver and travel 45 minutes to your elegant Hotel in Lake District. Check-in is possible after 3pm. The afternoon is free to relax. 7 pm you meet your Travel Director and fellow travelers and enjoy together a welcome dinner.(D)
Accommodation: Palace Grand Hotel Varese (or similar)
DAY 2: LAKE COMO
Enjoy a perfectly picturesque region laden with villas and lush gardens. Walk though the historic center of Como. Free time for lunch and to wander the city or shop. In the late enjoy a casual Italian dinner with the group in a family style (BD)
Accommodation: Palace Grand Hotel Varese (or similar)
DAY 3: FRANCIACORTA & LAKE GARDA
Starting with breakfast we will move to the amazing Franciacorta region, home of one of the best bubbling wine in Italy: Franciacorta Satin, and taste different kind of Franciacorta made by champenoise method, enjoy lunch with the group sourrended by vineyards, in the afternoon travel to Lake Garda area for our new accommodation. Enjoy the evening and dinner on your own strolling in the boardwalk of the Lake (BL)
Accommodation: Hotel Acquaviva (or similar)
DAY 4 : ROSE’ WINES & LAKE GARDA
What is Chiaretto? Chiaretto is one of the most famous rosè wine in Italy “the wine of 1 night” which consists of delicately pressing the grapes and leaving them together with the skins for a few hours (approximately overnight, hence the terminology "overnight wine") to obtain the famous pale pink color
Today we will visit a local producer for a tasting of Chiaretto, Rosè bubbling and the typical Groppello red wine. In the afternoon a visit to an extra vergin olive oil which fortunately has not yet become a mass-produced product and therefore retains all the authentic taste of a small-scale production, carried out by family-run farm. A late buffet Aperitivo is waiting for us
Accommodation: Hotel Acquaviva (or similar) (BL)
DAY 5: SAILING THE LAKE AND DISCOVER LUGANA & AMARONE WINES
Let’s leave Lake Garda to move to Amarone and Lugana region. Discover with a guided tour the Amarone secrets, have a lunch with your group and continue your journey to a Lugana winery. Let’s sail the lake to be enchanted by the breathtaking panorama and a farewell dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Acquaviva (or similar) (BLD)
DAY 6: ARRIVEDERCI!
Transportation is provided from the hotel to accommodate early flights (Bergamo Airport BGY or Verona Airport VRN) or early trains to Desenzano del Garda . Checkout by 10 am (B)
VERY IMPORTANT: notice the 2 airports of Verona and Bergamo are perfect to discover Europe, but don’t have international flights outside Europe
Desenzano del Garda train station is perfect to direct destination has Venice, Milan, Florence or Rome.
It’s possible to extend your tour to Milan or Venice , ask us a quotation for.
Would you like to extend your Tour with the Prosecco Tour ending in Venice airport? Ask us to do a back to back.