11-Day Food & Wine in Milan, Verona, Parma & Alba

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Today, you'll explore the beauty of Lake Como. Your private driver and guide will meet you at your hotel and take you out of the city to Lake Como. Lake Como is one of the biggest lakes in Italy and the deepest lake in Europe with a depth of 410 metres. The lake has a bizarre “Y” shape with three extremities: the northern with Colico, the southeast with Lecco and the southwest with Como and in the middle, the magnificent Bellagio on a peninsula. You'll explore these places today.

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Today, your private driver will pick you up from your hotel to your transfer to Verona. En route, you'll make a two-hour stop in the charming town of Sirmione where you'll have lunch and explore on your own. Once you reach Verona, you will have the rest of the day free to spend as you wish. Verona is supposedly said to be where Shakespeare based the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet so is an incredibly romantic city.

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Juliet, the squares, the arena; don’t miss this tour of the downtown historic centre of Verona, fully embraced by the curve of the Adige River. In ancient Roman times, the city of Verona received its chess-board layout and was adorned with the Arena, the world's best-preserved Roman amphitheatre that still holds concerts and events. The visit also includes a very popular stop, the 14th-century house of Juliet. Verona is linked in everyone’s minds to the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet.

Valpolicella is the most famous red wine district in northeastern Italy's Veneto wine region. It's not hard to understand why, given the easy-drinking appeal of regular red Valpolicella, coupled with the prestige of its powerful and intensely flavoured counterpart, Amarone della Valpolicella. Today, you'll tour this wonderful area tasting wines in various vineyards and wineries before arriving at your hotel, complete with a Michelin-starred restaurant in the Parma countryside.

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Today, you'll plunge yourself into typical Emilian products. You'll enhance your Italian culinary experience by sharing knowledge and moments with Italian food masters. All the producers are small and family-run, no industrial productions, so you can translate the words of the makers as it happens, and share with you the products that have made Parma’srenowned artisan culture over the centuries. It will be a day of visiting farms, learning about the production of these products and tasting them!

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For any motor enthusiasts, this is a must. The museum is extremely well-curated and is so well done as to be interesting even to non-motoring enthusiasts. The fact that it gets about 200,000 visitors a year from all corners of the globe says it all. The whole history is very well displayed, including the first Ferrari car and going right through history to the current models. You will even get to see a reproduction of Enzo Ferrari’s office in Modena with much of the original furniture.

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You’ve probably heard that Barbaresco is one of Italy’s top wines. Yet, for many years, it’s also been one of its most underappreciated gems. Many wine drinkers passed on it in favour of Barolo, its larger, more renowned neighbour. But now Barbaresco is stepping up its game, thanks, in part, to a new generation of winemakers who are embracing more natural farming methods, leading to even higher quality. Today, you'll continue your wine tour of Italy in this region before arriving in Alba.

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One of the delights about travelling through Italy is that every area has its own very distinctive cuisine. This morning, you will learn to cook the finest dishes that the region is known for: with Barolo wines and the white truffle, you are in for a treat. After enjoying these dishes for lunch, you'll head off on a panoramic tour through the UNESCO hills and vineyards of the Barolo wine-growing area, via the picturesque wine villages of La Morra, Barolo, Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba.

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Mention the words 'white truffle' and Italy immediately springs to mind and within Italy, Piedmont is the most famous area for producing this ‘hidden gold’. Today, you'll head out on a personal truffle hunt with a local designer and his dog, who know all the best spots for finding this elusive gem. You'll then head to a restaurant with your finds, where they will prepare truffle-based dishes for you. You'll then explore the truffle hunting area before heading back to Milan for your final night.