Milan Wine Tastings & Wine Tours
Milan is not a wine region, but it has an urban winery, serious sommeliers and three real wine countries within a day: Franciacorta, the Oltrepò Pavese and Piedmont. Compare the top-rated tastings and day trips below.
Wine tastings in Milan
In the city: the urban winery tasting where grapes from across Italy are vinified in a Milan cellar; sommelier flights of Lombardy and Italian wines with cheese and salumi; wine-and-aperitivo walks.
Day trips: Franciacorta for traditional-method sparkling wine, an hour east; the Oltrepò Pavese hills south of Pavia; Barolo and the Langhe in Piedmont for a long day.
Price: 40 to 70 dollars for a city tasting; 250 to 400 for a full day with transport and lunch.
Tastings in Milan
The urban winery is the city’s most original wine experience: a working cellar inside Milan where the tasting walks through the tanks and barrels before the glasses, at a price that is hard to argue with. Sommelier-led tastings elsewhere cover Lombardy’s own wines, Franciacorta, Valtellina Nebbiolo, Lugana, alongside the national classics, usually with a board of cheese and salumi. Ninety minutes to two hours.
Day trips
Franciacorta is the obvious one: bottle-fermented sparkling wine from the hills above Lake Iseo, an hour from Milan, with tours that pair two cellars with lunch or a lake cruise. It has its own page: Franciacorta wine tours. The Oltrepò Pavese, south of Pavia, makes Pinot Nero and sparkling wine in quieter hills. Piedmont is two hours away and Barolo tours from Milan are long days; we cover them on our Piedmont pages.
Frequently asked questions
What wine is Milan known for?
None of its own; Lombardy’s are Franciacorta, Valtellina and Lugana, and all three appear in Milan tastings.
Is Franciacorta like Prosecco?
No. Franciacorta is made like Champagne, with a second fermentation in the bottle and long ageing; Prosecco is tank-fermented. It tastes closer to Champagne and costs more than Prosecco.
Can I visit Franciacorta by train?
Rovato is on the Milan to Brescia line, but the wineries are spread out; a tour with transport is the practical way.
Read next: Prosecco vs Franciacorta vs Champagne
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