Vinitours Website

After a very busy 2013 which included visits to several new wine producers in Italy, as well as arranging many tours, workshops and tastings at winerys in Le Marche and Umbria, we at Vinitours decided it was time to update our increasingly popular website, this would allow us to introduce many new features, including several new wine tours to our existing clients and also new visitors.
The original Vinitours website was created in 2010 to cater for the growing demand for specialist tours to small bespoke wine and olive oil producers in Italy, so by late 2013 as we had a large selection of these tours and workshops in place we decided that we needed to expand and improve our website and other promotional materials.
Our new Vinitours website now allows us to give a detailed description of the wines produced by these small  artisan wine producers and also full details with prices of the tours available from us in 2014. This now allows us to also update our Olivaverde website which concentrates on Italian and Mediterranean olive oils so we are now moving the olive oil producers with the tours to a new section on the Olivaverde site in February 2014

Dopo un 2013 davvero pieno con visite a moltissimi produttori in Italia, la realizzazione di tour, seminari e degustazioni in cantine marchigiane e umbre, Vinitours ha deciso che è tempo di rinnovare il prorpio sito web sempre più visitato, permettendo così a noi di introdurre molti nuovi produttori e tour in pregiate cantine Italiane a beneficio dei nostri clienti sia vecchi che nuovi.
Il sito originale di Vinitours è stato creato nel 2010 per far fronte alla crescente domanda di tour su misura e specializzati in piccoli produttori artigianali di vino ed olio. A fine 2013 il sito presentava un'ampia selezione di tour e seminari ed abbiamo deciso che era il momento adatto per espandere e migliorare il nostro sito web.
Il nostro nuovo sito di Vinitours ci permette ora di avere una dettagliata spiegazione per ogni tipologia di vino prodotta dai vignaioli con cui collaboriamo ed una completa lista di tour disponibili per il 2014. Ciò ci ha anche permesso di aggiornare il nostro sito di Olivaverde, spostandovi tutti i produttori di olio da Vinitorus, e concentrandoci su produttori di tutta la zona del Mediterraneo, creando una nuove sezione sul sito di Olivaverde che sarà disponibile dal prossimo mese.

We are extremely pleased to have close working relationships with many producers of excellent wines in the central Italian regions of Umbria and Le Marche and hope to increase our range of tours in these areas in the next few months.
The new Vinitours website will also now allow us to introduce new wine producers from the Italian regions of Sicily and Puglia, previously we had only included producers from Le Marche, Umbria and Tuscany, but after having been approached by producers from these two regions we have decided to increase the tours and workshops on offer.
Several producers in Puglia and also two in Sicily will be featured on the Vinitours website later this spring and we hope to increase the number of regions in Italy that we cover over the course of the coming year. The regions of Puglia and Sicily are becoming very popular with wine buyers in the UK and we hope to build on this popularity by having a range of exciting and comprehensive tours and workshops to offer to our clients.
We are also now working closely with a local co operative in Malta to promote typical Maltese foods and wines and hope to be able to include their local red and white wines at some point in 2014.

Siamo estremamente soddisfatti di avere rapporti di stretta collaborazione con diversi produttori di eccellenti vini nelle regioni centrali d'Italia di Umbria, Marche e Toscana e stiamo lavorando per incrementare il loro numero nei prossimi mesi.
Il nuovo sito di Vinitorus ci premetterà anche di introdurre al pubblico nuovi produttori da altre regioni come la Sicilia e la Puglia dopo crescente richiesta da cantine provenienti da queste zone che ci hanno convinto ad ampliare il campo precedentemente ristretto alle sole regioni del centro Italia.
Diversi produttori dalla Puglia e due dalla Sicilia saranno presenti sul sito di Vinitorus a partire da questa primavera ed obbiettivo di quest'anno sarà lavorare per ampliare il numero di regioni e produttori coinvolti nei nostri tours. Le regioni di Puglia e Sicilia sono diventate molto popolari negli UK e ci prefiggiamo di partecipare all'ampliamento e diffusione di questa popolarità tramite una vasta e comprensiva gamma di tours e seminari di degustazione da offrire ai nostri clienti.
Stiamo ora anche collaborando a tretto contatto con una coperativa nell'isola di Malta che promuove prodotti tradizionali locali e vino e speriamo di essere in grado di includere i locali bianchi e rossi nella nostra selezione prima della fine dell'anno.

Truffles in Le Marche

In Italy the towns of Alba in Piedmont and Acqualanga in Le Marche are both world famous for their truffles, both for the white and the black varieties.

Acqualanga is a beautiful small town located in the Italian Apennine mountains in the Pesaro and Urbino province of the eastern Italian region of Le Marche, and its national festival that is held each Autumn is considered to be one of the most important Truffle festivals in the world. The area of countryside around the town has a particular climate that is particularly suited to the growth of truffles and this also allows truffles to be harvested all year round.
Acqualagna as a major fine food centre is also closely associated with the Slow Food movement in Italy and is part of the international Cittaslow network. Vinitours has been working in partnership with Slow Food Norwich in the UK for several years which as part of the Slow food movement is now also closely associated with Slow Food in Italy and groups in the Le Marche region.
This part of Le Marche is one of the most beautiful areas of this beautiful and unspoilt region of Italy, with stunning mountains and large remote forests which make up the Furlo Reserve which includes 3,600 hectares of wood, grasslands and mountain peaks. 

Vinitours together with our partners and associates in Italy are pleased to be able to offer from the autumn of 2011, a range of visits, tours and truffle hunts in this beautiful and fascinating area of  the Le Marche region.

From January to March the common black truffle is predominant, from April to June it is the summer black truffle, July to September the white Marzuolo truffle and then from October to January it is the most highly prized truffle of all, the white truffle, tuber Magnatum Pico.

There are three truffle fairs held each year in Acqualanga, the regional fair in February, the regional summer fair in August and the most important and prestigious, the national truffle fair held in the last two weeks of October.

Vinitours is very pleased to work closely with our friend and associate Andrea Tomassetti from Le marche to offer personalised truffle hunts in the countryside near the Adriatic resort of Senigallia, these tours cater for smaller groups who also may wish to visit the mill where Andrea produces his wonderful Montedoro range of olive oils and also the local organic wine producers.

We are also pleased to now be involved with one of the premier producers of truffles in Le Marche and based in the area of Acqualagna,and we can offer larger group tours and visits to this area. The tours in Acqualagna include taking part in tutored tastings and hunts with their truffle experts with accommodation being provided should this be required.

Azienda Vinicola Venturi

Vinicola Venturi is a small artisan wine producer which is based in the village of Castellone di Suasa in the central Le Marche region of eastern Italy. The extensive vineyards which make up this small estate are situated in this beautiful part of the Le Marche region, being only a few kilometres from the Adriatic coast and the coastal resort of Senigallia.
The idea for a commercial vineyard came after many years of wine making on a small scale by the father of the current owner. The vineyard was established in the late 1990s with the sole idea of producing superb wines which are all typical of the Le Marche region.
Working where possible using both the old established methods and the more modern techniques of production they believe that they make wines which show the true qualities and potential of the white and red wines from Le Marche.

The current producer, Roberto Venturi has recently completed an extensive upgrade and has enlarged the capacity of his vineyard in order to increase both the quantity and also improve the overall quality of his superb range of wines.
These wines include two white Verdicchio wines, a Marche bianco, Marche rosato, a Marche Sangiovese and a Rosso Piceno. He also produces two Grappa, a Grappa di Vinacce di Verdicchio and a Grappa di Vinacce di Aleatico which are much prized and quite rare.
Vinitours together with its UK based food and market company Sagraitalia can now offer tours and tastings at the Azienda, either as a stand alone visit or as part of a longer tour which can also include other wine makers in the area or even in other parts of the Le Marche region.
We can also incorporate visits and tastings to these wine makers with tours to olive oil producers, pasta and salami makers and other specialist food producers as well, each tour is completely bespoke and designed to fit the needs and requirements of the group or individuals  wishing to take part.