On the bright, sunny winter days the South of Italy offers an infinity of charms to nourish both heart and soul. Nature reveals her glory after a hot and sultry summer during which many subtleties were overshadowed. Finally, one can inhale the calmness of places without tourists and enjoy the wide, open spaces. It’s the time for discovery, for telling stories, for stimulating conversation. It’s the harvest period: the ripeness of juicy oranges exhales a sweet perfume from afar and the scent of log fire in the olive groves fills the air. The activities of this time of the year can be encountered with patience and poetry: going on a mushroom foray, savoring a sip of the first wine from the latest vintage, slicing homemade salami, roasting chestnuts; the concentration on aromas and tastes, on experiencing and sensing, constitutes an integral role in the process of retiring and slowing down. The intoxicating warmth of the summer months is replaced by the intensity and essence of the shorter growing days.

The program of the individual Gourmet journeys presents six regions of the South with detailed itineraries that uncover the secrets of the art of fine living, elegance and culinary luxury. – More than in all the other programs on the Gourmet tours you will be traveling with your palate, tasting and enjoying the characteristics of each visited area. The important wines hide the power of three ingredients in their barrels: first of all the archaic grape sorts with their roots in the Ancient Period, but then also the competence of committed vintners who made them great wines, together with the energy and ripeness of many sunny months. In the good cuisine of Southern Italy you find sophisticated, modern creations of the Art of Cooking rooted in secular traditions of these latitudes. Traveling with all senses – the papillae of the tongue discover other worlds and in eternal delights.