Etna tour and wine tasting from Taormina
€ 99.00
Description:
It’s an experience full of adventure and good taste.
Get your taste buds going with these great wine tasting experience: forget a standard tasting tour and join us for a full-bodied experience of volcanic wines! Wine tasting is a great experience that everyone can enjoy. It is a fabulous day out: we will try an assortment of delicious wines and learn more about Etna volcanic wines.
Discover Etna’s blossoming wine traditions with our Etna Wine Tour from Taormina!
Our tour offers a great experience and a fun day out in a relaxed environment and is a fantastic way to explore the highest volcano in Europe and know more about its incredibly rich volcanic soil.
Be inspired by our vineyards & wine tasting experience!
During the first part of the excursion, we will walk through secular woods around Mount Etna discovering spectacular volcanic phenomena, craters, and unusual rock and lava formations. We will visit the most important wineries in the area: Etna winemakers know how to use the volcanic soil and local grape varieties to create wines that are incredibly unique.
Details
Mt. Etna is famous for being one of the most active volcanoes in the world and for its steaming volcanic chasms, snowy peaks, and stunning landscape. But the volcano’s most recent claim to fame is its wineries and wine tastings. Vines have been cultivated on Mount Etna for centuries, the particularly mineral-influenced wines grown on Etna’s slopes are highly appreciated by experts all around the world.
Wine and nature lovers come and join us for a wonderful experience of wine tasting and an excellent lunch based on local products! Our tour will give you the opportunity to explore impressive areas such as the ancient Sartorius Mounts’ craters, extinct craters that erupted in 1865. We will walk along particulars craters termed “a bottoniera”, which have developed over time during Mount Etna’s eruptions. We will also wander amidst the eruptive events of 2002: we will also visit a volcanic cave and the 2002 lava flow, one of the volcano’s most powerful eruptions of the last decades.
useful information
- Daily tour (availability all year round)
- No Advance Payment
- Duration of the tour: about 7 hours
- Price: 99.00 €
Spoken languages:
Italian
- Italian
- English
What's included
- Professional guide
- Technical equipment (caving helmets and walking sticks)
- We will come to pick you up at your accommodation (between Giardini Naxos and Taormina
- Wine and local products tasting
What to bring
- We recommend layered clothing and a windbreaker
Photos
Itinerary
Our driver will come to pick you up at your accommodation or at the established meeting point
We will first give you the opportunity to have a coffee and use the toilet at the mountain chalet
Around Piano Provenzana, we will enjoy a breath-taking view and explore the 2002 lava flow.
We will visit a volcanic cave, a lava tube for an amazing caving experience in full safety while wearing a helmet and using a cave light
Trekking on the ancient Sartorius Mounts, extinct craters that erupted in 1865. We will walk for around an hour and a half, crossing a pine and birch wood.
We will visit a winery and taste wine and wonderful local foods. We will lunch and enjoy local dishes and amazing volcanic wines
We will also visit the wine cellar and learn from the winemaker winemaking techniques
Our driver will take you back to your accommodation or the meeting point
8.30-9.00 AM
Departure
Our driver will come to pick you up at your accommodation or at the established meeting point
About 10 AM
Stop in Mountain Chalet
We will first give you the opportunity to have a coffee and use the toilet at the mountain chalet.
From 10.15 AM to 11.15 AM
Visit to a volcanic cave and the 2002 lava flow
Around Piano Provenzana, we will enjoy a breath-taking view and explore the 2002 lava flow. We will visit a volcanic cave, a lava tube for an amazing caving experience in full safety while wearing a helmet and using a cave light.
From 11.15 AM to 12.45 AM
Trekking across volcanic craters
Trekking on the ancient Sartorius Mounts, extinct craters that erupted in 1865. We will walk for around an hour and a half, crossing a pine and birch wood..
About 1.30 PM
Winery visit
We will visit a winery and taste wine and wonderful local foods. We will lunch and enjoy local dishes and amazing volcanic wines
About 3.00 PM
Visit of the cellar
We will also visit the wine cellar and learn from the winemaker winemaking techniques.
About 4.30 PM
End of the excursion
Our driver will take you back to your accommodation or the meeting point.
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