British wine tour company Arblaster & Clark takes its tour groups to some of the top producers of Sicilian wine during its seven-day jaunt around the island. Stops include the towns of Marsala and Palermo. Interspersed between tastings, tour groups visit ancient churches and cathedrals, dine on Sicilian fare, and spend nights in four- and five-star hotels, one of which is located on a wine estate. Tours depart from London.
Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Ltd.
Cedar Court, 5 College Street
Petersfield, Hampshire
England UK GU31 4AE
0-1730-2631-11
Winetours.co.uk
Based in Spain, Cellar Tours offers private, seven-day wine tours of western Sicily in a chauffeured Mercedes. Not only do tours take in the local wine scene, but Cellar Tours takes its guests for spa treatments, guided walking tours and sails in the Mediterranean as well. Tour groups dine on authentic Sicilian dishes paired with local wines and rest their heads in five-star hotels. Sommelier wine tasting presentations are given at each winery on the tour. All tours begin at the Palermo airport in Sicily.
Cellar Tastings S.L.
C/ Zurbano 45, 1st Floor
28010 Madrid, Spain
34-91-182-9790
Cellartours.com
Husband and wife Claudio Bisio (a native Italian) and Patricia Thomson (a food and travel writer) began their New York-based company La Dolce Vita to offer epicurean wine tours in Italy. Their five-day Sicilian wine tour visits wine estates, a sea salt maker and an olive oil producer, as well as Greek temples and Byzantine cathedrals. Tours meet in the Palermo city center.
La Dolce Vita Wine Tours, Inc.
576 Fifth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
888-746-0022
Dolcetours.com
