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We only list products and services we know to be of the quality we demand and whose ethics coincide with those of Sapori e Saperi Adventures. In most cases we know the owners of the businesses personally.

Food + Wine: good, clean and fair

Fattoria Colle Verde
Piero Tartagni produces some of the best wines of the Colline Lucchesi, as well as award-winning olive oil. This is where Sapori e Saperi takes wine lovers for a tour of the estate and a wine-tasting to remember.

French Broad Chocolate Lounge
Dan & Jael hosted a Slow Food convivium meeting at which we shared the podium talking about and tasting chocolate. If you’re anywhere near Asheville, North Carolina, stop in for some sensational artisan chocolates.

Neal’s Yard Dairy: Farm cheeses from the British Isles.

Northfield Farm produces premium quality beef, lamb and pork which has been naturally reared, has lived well and has been humanely killed.

Squisito
Using local Warwickshire ingredients, Sara and Alex Chambers make delicious fresh and seasonal Italian food which they sell at upwards of 30 farmers’ markets and their on-line deli.

Sapori e Saperi travel partners

Epicopia
A collection of food & wine travel experiences.

Experience Puglia
Angelo Coluccia offers private tours to individuals, couples and small groups with the aim of bringing alive his native territory of Puglia through its cuisine, its culture and its history.

Insider’s Italy
Marjorie Shaw provides personalized travel planning to individuals looking for an experience far beyond the traditional tourist holiday.

Slow Tours to Italy and Croatia
Food and wine tours with Robyn Vulinovich, a Slow Food convivium leader committed to ensuring her travellers have a wonderful and memorable time in a part of the world that has become her second home.

Tuscan Moto Tours: Ride your dreams. If you want to tour on a motorcycle in Italy but don’t have the time to spend days getting there and back, find accommodation en route and search out the best roads and accommodation when you get there, try our fly ride package! ‘Park your pillion’ service: you ride while your partner discovers authentic traditional local food and wine with Sapori e Saperi.

Explore Turkey:
Cultural Tourism. A feast for all your senses.
Discover the cuisine and history of Turkey with Slow Food convivium leader Brenda Farrell as your guide.

Travel guides for foodies

Delicious Italy
An independent guide to the food, wine, culture, history and traditions of Italy by region and territory. Heather Jarman, director of Sapori e Saperi, wrote their guide to the Garfagnana

Family resources

Arte al Sole
A day camp for international children offering week-long sessions based on the art, culture, and natural science of Tuscany set in the majestic Lucca hills.

Italiakids.com
A complete resource guide for international families in Italy.

Tots to Italy
Provides holiday properties in beautiful Italian locations fully stocked with child-friendly kit, ensuring a relaxing holiday for parents with young children. With your base at Casa Barile you can take advantage of Sapori e Saperi’s local knowledge and adventures for families.

Site design: Duncan Designs · Last updated: 13 February 2010 ·
Photo Credits: Marion Edwards, O’Connor, Duncan Fielden, Andrew Houston and many of our adventurers, to all of whom we are very grateful.