
Milan Wine Tours & Tastings
Milan wine tours and tastings: sommelier-led city tastings, Franciacorta sparkling day trips, plus Oltrepo Pavese and Valtellina. What to taste and how to book.
Planning guides: what is in season, which region to choose, and how to get there.

Milan wine tours and tastings: sommelier-led city tastings, Franciacorta sparkling day trips, plus Oltrepo Pavese and Valtellina. What to taste and how to book.

Prague Christmas markets food guide: svarak mulled wine, trdelnik, klobasa sausage, Prague ham and bramborak, at the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square markets.

Budapest Christmas markets food guide: forralt bor mulled wine, kurtoskalacs chimney cake, langos, kolbasz and goulash, at the Vorosmarty ter and Basilica markets.

Vienna Christmas markets food guide: Gluhwein and Punsch, roasted chestnuts, Kartoffelpuffer, Kaiserschmarrn and gingerbread, and the best markets from Rathausplatz to Spittelberg.

The best European Christmas markets for food and wine: Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Strasbourg and Nuremberg, what to eat and drink at each, and when to go.

White truffle vs black truffle explained: Tuber magnatum (autumn, raw, expensive, from Alba and Istria) vs black melanosporum and aestivum (cooked, cheaper, year-round).

What to eat in Istria, Croatia: fuzi pasta with truffle, maneštra, Istrian pršut, boškarin ox, world-class olive oil, grilled seafood, and Malvazija and Teran wine.

What to eat in Piedmont: white truffle, tajarin and agnolotti pasta, vitello tonnato, bagna cauda, brasato al Barolo, hazelnut gianduja, and Barolo and Barbaresco wine.

Truffle hunting in Piedmont explained: go out with a trifolau and his dog in the Langhe woods around Alba, when white truffle season runs, what it costs, and how to book.

Pašticada explained: Dalmatia's festive slow-braised beef, marinated in wine and vinegar then cooked with prošek and dried fruit, served with gnocchi.