In January 2020, Ormina Tours announced an exclusive partnership with The Grand Wine Tour in Italy. Product launches were planned and by the close of the year the whole team expected to be fully immersed in quoting, booking and delivering an authentic product alongside The Grand Wine Tour. Alas, it was not to be. But […]
There were so many fantastic entries in our competition that we ran in partnership with The Grand Wine Tour. Stunning images and beautiful travel stories were shared with us in the hopes of winning a 3-day VIP Food & Wine Tour in Italy. The judges have spoken… Our judging panel took much deliberation to decide
Everybody loves a good list, especially if it involves wine! And we love it when some of our favourites make the global stage. The new list of World’s Best Vineyards 2020 has been unveiled and on it are some of the best Italian Wineries. How do they choose the global top fifty wineries? First of
The secret of success for Ceretto in Piedmont is owed to the exceptional soil and climate of the Langhe and the proprietors’ passion and wisdom to capture this quality in the wine. Riccardo Ceretto understood this in the 1930s when he began making wine. His sons Bruno and Marcello completed their father’s vision when they
Cascina Chicco has been making wines in Roero for three generations, since founder Ernesto Faccenda planted vineyards of Nebbiolo and Barbera in the 1950s. In the 1980s, Ernesto’s son Federico modernized the winery, and today, he and his sons Enrico and Marco work together to produce wines of great quality. They expanded production by selecting
Cantine di Marisa Cuomo is one of Southern Italy’s premier wineries. It is famous for its “extreme wines” due to the steep terraces where the vineyards grow, and for recuperating native grape varieties with a thousand-year-old history. Deep into the Amalfi Coast the village of Furore tenaciously clings, in scattered pieces, to the steep cliffside that dramatically
Tenuta Cocci Grifoni Winery has been making family wines since 1933. The winery is deeply embedded in the history of the Cocci Grifoni family and continues to be with the fourth-generation of Cocci Grifoni women leading the winery. Nestled in the hills of the Marche region, Tenuta Cocci Grifoni is a family-run winery that has
Founded in 1993 by Francesco Miotto, Paolo De Bortoli and Loris Dall’Acqua, Col Vetoraz is in Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, the most traditional winemaking territory of Prosecco Superiore DOCG . It is a corner in Northeast Italy with one of a kind sceneries: steep hillsides; terraced vineyards and the characteristic ciglioni; a chequerboard landscape with rows of vines
The history of Villa Sparina goes back to the 1700s when it was part of a grand colonial estate immersed in the vineyards of Monterotondo, in the heart of Gavi. Today, it is the site of the Villa Sparina Wine Resort. The winery, founded in the 1970s by the Moccagatta family comprises of one hundred
At Ormina Tours we have long promoted the idea of celebrating life through travel. We want to offer our clients exclusive, unique and local experiences that bring a level of authenticity to your cultural discovery. These experiences start at a ground level with our fantastic guides and drivers who are local experts; always friendly and
