Private and Guided 3 Etna Wineries with Food & Wine

About This Experience

Three estates, ten wines, a sommelier at each, and nobody in the car but your own party. This is the tour to book when the wine is genuinely the point and you do not want to share a minibus to get to it.

An English-speaking driver-guide collects you from your hotel or the port and drives up through the villages on the volcano's flanks — orange and lemon orchards, olive and almond trees, houses and churches built out of lava stone. At each of the three family-run wineries you walk the vineyards with a sommelier and taste whites, rosés and reds alongside fresh local food.

Everything is in the price: food, drink and every fee at every estate. Tasting quantities are described as unlimited rather than measured pours, which in practice means the sommeliers keep going as long as the conversation does.

Six and a half to seven hours, entirely on your schedule. It costs several times a shared half-day, and for a group of four or more it stops looking extravagant fairly quickly.

Highlights

• Three family-run Etna wineries in one day, private to your party
• Ten different wines — whites, rosés and reds — with a sommelier at each estate
• Food tasting at every winery, all included in the price
• Vineyard walks rather than just cellar-door pours
• Private air-conditioned car with an English-speaking driver-guide, hotel or port pick-up

What's Included

• ✓ Wine tasting — ten different wines
• ✓ Food tasting at each of the three wineries
• ✓ Private driver-guide (English-speaking)
• ✓ Hotel or cruise-port pick-up and drop-off
• ✓ Private tour for your party only
• ✓ Air-conditioned private car or minivan between estates
• ✓ All winery fees

Not Included

• Gratuities (optional)

Good to Know & Caveats

• Everything is included — food, wine and all estate fees — so there is nothing to settle on the day.
• Three tastings across seven hours is a lot of wine. Eat properly at the first stop.
• Because it is private, the pace and the pick-up time are yours to set with the guide.
• Cruise-port pick-up makes this workable as a shore excursion, but confirm your ship's all-aboard time against a seven-hour day.

Meeting Point

Pick-up from your accommodation or the cruise port, by private air-conditioned car or minivan.