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From Italy with love - In the footsteps of Margaret River’s Italian winemakers

🕰️ 4 DAYS - 4 NIGHTS

🛌 PRIVATE/SMALL GROUP

🗓️ YEAR ROUND

From 5,590 pp

“La vita è una combinazione di pasta e magia. Life is a combination of pasta and magic.” - Federico Fellini

Four-day luxury food and wine immersion to Italian hospitality. Join us for 'wine travel' filled with Italian-inspired feasts, stories and wines of Italian born winemakers. Experience Margaret River like you're living the 'La Dolce Vita".

There is a reason that we all dream of living La Dolce Vita; the Italians really do know how to live the good life. With a daily celebration of the important things in life – good food, great wine and delicious company, you’ll never go hungry (or thirsty) when travelling through Italy.

Margaret River has drawn some incredible winemaking and culinary talent from Italy over the years, thanks to its wonderful produce, world-class grape growing conditions and a welcoming Western Australian Italian community.

Take a journey through Margaret River’s “Little Italy” and meet the winemakers crafting some of the region’s most in-demand wines, learn about their Italian heritage and their continental winemaking inspiration. Of course, in Italy wine and food go hand in hand, so you’ll be indulging in regional Italian feasts alongside local wines and those imported from Northern Italy.

This four-day food and wine immersion is curated and hosted by an expert team led by wine and tourism expert Stepan Libricky. IWSC award winning wine journalist, communicator, travel writer and presenter Cassandra Charlick provided wine selection advise and recommendations.

inclusions & highlights

• 4 nights luxury accommodation at a Margaret River private estate.

• Daily signature breakfast experience and daily aperitive hour.

• All meals, beverages and transfers for the duration of your stay.

• Wines selected and paired by Cassandra Charlick.

• Mel Kokoti is your private chef for the entirety of your stay. With an Australian Good Food Guide hat and placed in the WA top 50 three years running, she’ll carefully curate each dish to highlight the wine you’ll be exploring.

• Italian inspired feasting throughout your stay.

• Lace-up an apron for a hands-on experience making handmade sausages with Rob Gherardi, the winemaker and co-owner of boutique winery Mr. Barval. An Italian feast awaits after the morning’s activity in the kitchen. Rob Gherardi is the winemaker and co-founder of Mr Barval, and his Italian heritage and experience winemaking in Italy is evident in the small-batch wines he crafts.

• A morning amongst the biodynamic vineyards and in the winery with McHenry Hohnen’s Head Winemaker Jacopo “Japo” Dalli Cani. Afterwards, join Murray McHenry for an intimate “meet the maker” experience;  a rustic Italian provincial long lunch in the barrel hall, with McHenry Hohnen paired wines.

• Savour a hearty campfire Italian stew and journey from Margaret River to Northern Italy with Larry Cherubino Wines after a coastal hike amongst the region’s pristine terroir with local guide Dianne James.

• Four evenings filled with decadent Italian trattoria feasts and a 
        trip around Northern Italy, paired with private wine tastings 
        from Margaret River’s Italian winemaker guests.
  
  Travel around the globe via your tastebuds and 
        wineglass.

• Exclusive tastings with master chocolatier Nadia Haskel and with the duo behind Mai Tardi Gelato, Gioacomo and Giordano.

• All transfers from arrival through until departure. 

  pricing

  Based on minimum of 6 traveling adults, for maximum of 12 guests.

  Prices start from $5,590 pp in 4-star villas, $6,350 pp in 5-star villas, twin or double share.

  Private and exclusive group travel, strats from $43,000.

  Please make an enquiry for accurate pricing for a private experience.

  Please note that the itinerary is a guide only, seasonal variances may occur due to agricultural operations.