New Gastronomic Tour Through Piedmont

UK based, Martin Randall Travel (MRT) is happy to offer a new food and wine walking tour through Piedmont, Italy from September 21-27, 2008. The tour will operate with between 12-22 participants. This area, often judged to be the most interesting region in Italy is rarely visited by tourists. Piedmont offers excellent wines, freshly grown foods, and sophisticated cooking. Moreover, the region is the center of the Slow Food Revolution, which is transforming food and wine all over Italy by focusing on a slower, more natural and organic lifestyle, as well as working to preserve culinary traditions and protect agricultural practices threatened in this age of mass consumerism.

For this tour, Turin is skipped in favor of spending more time in the countryside to explore the origins of the food and wine of this region. Participants will find excellent restaurants in this area, from small family run establishments to Michelin ranked restaurants. The study and enjoyment of wine is a large part of this tour. Participants will meet makers, chosen as much for their charm and personalities, as for their wines, in some cases study their vines and the wine-making process, and taste the results. Among the foods guests will investigate, truffles are significant – Alba is something of a truffle capital – but the mountain cheeses, particularly the prestigious Castel Magno, make an equally powerful impression.

Landscape is another of the great pleasures of the tour. As its name suggests, Piedmont reaches from high pastures to alluvial plains, and much of it is intensively cultivated. The Langhe hills are among the most beautiful in Italy, the flanks almost entirely carpeted with vineyards, the summits sporting castles, little medieval towns or ancient farmsteads.

Highlights of this 7-Day Tour include: Wine tasting, truffle hunting in the woods, a visit to a sausage factory, a stop in the valley of the river Grana to visit cheese farms and lunch at one of the best restaurants in Piedmont, Al Combal Zero.

This tour package (MV 117) includes: Air travel (economy class) on scheduled British Airways flights (aircraft: Boeing 737) from London Gatwick to Tunin, travel by private coach for excursions and transfers, 4-star hotel accommodation, all breakfasts, 5 lunches, 1 picnic and 4 dinners with wine, water and coffee, all admissions to museums, etc, all food and wine tasting, all gratuities for restaurant staff, drivers, etc., all state and airport taxes, the services of the lecturer
PRICE: £1,820 (single room supplement £180) price without flights £1,710.

A detailed itinerary is available online at www.martinrandall.com/tours/mv117.php For booking information send an email to info@martinrandall.co.uk or call at 011--44-20-8742-3355.

Interested in participating in this tour? Please email cindy@kainyc.com for more information.

What Media Are Saying About Martin Randall:
"Martin Randall Travel is probably the most erudite, serious and highly cultural tour operation on Earth. Its tour leaders are eminent historians, scientists and other specialists in the destinations it covers, and its participants are determined to have a profound learning experience… the outstanding tour operator for well-read, intellectually curious people," Arthur Frommer.



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