This was a fantastic experience, one of the best things we did on our Sicily trip. Peppe and…read moreAlessia are incredible and made the experience unbelievably special. They are experts and took great care of us. The food is amazing, paired expertly with incredible wines ranging from white, rosé, and red. Each wine has a story and a food pairing. They also make their own olive oil! A great experience with a gorgeous overlook of the vineyard fields, HIGHLY recommend!

Outstanding winery producing high-quality wines. We had our best experience here out of all the…read morewineries we went to in this area. The charcuterie plate they pair with the wine tasting is enough for a meal. Informative and pleasant staff. I ended up purchasing several wines to take home. Strongly recommend.

Incredible experience, top to bottom. If you can get out here, do it. This was the perfect day trip…read morefor our honeymoon. From the tour of the winery to the historic wine shop they have at base camp, we learned, heard about the site, and drank good wine. To top it off, we had a great lunch! Thank you to the welcoming staff - we cannot wait to tell everyone we know!

Miriam received us very nicely even though we didn't make a booking. Perfect hospitality, amazing…read moreservice, I recommend coming and making a booking.

Beautiful location, wonderful homemade fresh food, fantastic service. Piña is wonderful, the wine…read moreis fantastic. It was like our own little personal wine tasting event with dinner. Antica Tindari is bar none the best Agriturismo we're visited in Sicily! Plan on a personal tour of the winery as we'll!

Our hotel booked us for an intimate visit here. They have 3 acres and produce limited amount of…read morewine. The tasting was 40 euros and tried 3 wines, white, rose and red, all very good. It came with plate of cheeses, meat, olives and tomato salad. The wine making room is unique and has an antique press and the grandmother Amalia Tomaselli paintings on the wall.

When you want to visit a vineyard in Italy this is exactly the way you envision it: picturesque,…read morefamily run, and welcoming. That is the Fischetti vineyards. Even on a grey dreary day on the side of Mount Etna, Michela could not have been more agreeable, showing me around and explaining in easy terms what makes a good wine. The tour finishes at a old stone pressing house where you are offered a generous tasting of some of their award winning wine.

This place is off the beaten path and a little hard to find but trust Google and let it guide you…read morethere. Once you get there you will be seated in a 100 year old wine pressing room. That alone is a great experience. We ordered our first plate, the Sicilian typical starter and wow, it did not disappoint. 10 small dishes each one better than the last. Our next plate was the steak for two. Mind you we are from Kansas City (USA) and we know about steak and the taste and quality and this was by far the best steak we have had as of yet! This steak was surrounded by smoked vegetables that were delicious! Tiramisu for our dessert was fresh and amazing as well. Both house red and house white were also wonderful. Our dinner was wonderful but the best part of the evening was the chef who served us our entree and spent a lot of time with us Americans. She was what made our evening and experience. 10 months later we came back. Still just as good as the first time.

Excellent food , enjoyable atmosphere and service that is hard to compare. Our waiter offered us…read moresome local specialities to try, made sure we tried local specialities and did not stop to bring us some fresh bread and olive oil.

We were on the Etna People tour and stopped at Cantine Don Saro, a lovely little winery where had a…read morelovely lunch package included in our trip. We were seated and soon greeted by The Don who talked about his wine, food and enjoying life. The table had several wines during lunch a white, a red and a rose but I didn't have any but most people seemed to enjoy them all. The food was good and certainly appreciated by everyone at the table, some of the ladies on our table received some free gifts of jewelry as a thank you for visiting the winery. They also have a number of great wines for sale in their store so I would suggest you pick up a bottle or two if you can.

Loved our visit to Don Sara's winery - we walked away with 9 bottles! Very affordable bottles to…read moretake away. The hostess who taught us about the wine was very sweet, and included in the tasting was cheese, bread, olives and salami -- perfect accompaniments to the wine. The sparkling wine was exceptional. Worth the drive!

This was an absolute treasure of a find. On our last days in Sicily, we were on a mission to try…read morelocal wines and find great stuff to bring home. I went on Google maps to find possibilities and this one popped up which was more or less on our way from one of our night stops to the next. Getting there was tricky but on the phone I was given great advice, since it's a little tricky to get there following the location on Google. It involved a big, zigzagging uphill drive and a stretch through an area where we wondered if we were in the wrong place! BUT - we are SO HAPPY we came here! We learned that Gelsomina had just opened up its newly revamped visitors center this year, and the initial setup they had for us was truly beautiful with numerous spreads, snacks, and wines all placed artfully on a tabletop above repurposed wine barrels. We had an incredible tasting session which began with one long pour into a glass which we were invited to insert into a little "wine necklace" to hold as we stepped away from the tasting area and walked throughout the vineyard grounds. We were BLOWN AWAY by their stunning terraced gardens, lake, and unbelievable view of the sea. We were also blown away by the other wines, almost all of which we took a bottle home. The prices are super reasonable, the wines were delicious, and their sparkling is delicious. I plan to recommend this to anyone heading to Sicily in search of great wine and wonderful visitor experiences!

It was great Claudia at Etna People was able to accommodate my last minute request to take a trip…read moreto Mt Etna, they sent two SMS messages with details about my guide Emanuele and that he would pick me up from the entrance of Isola Bella at 9:05am. It was great they were just 1 minute late as they were stuck behind a truck unloading for one of the nearby cafes. Once aboard Emanuele introduced me to everyone and made sure we were all ready for an amazing day out exploring Mt Etna. This wasn't the cheapest tour option but it was all inclusive so you can't really go wrong as all the additional costs add up quickly on other tours. Our guide was really great on the way to Mt Etna as he made everyone feel part of the group and had some fun true/false questions about Volcanoes and the history of Mt Etna. He was also talking about the age of the different lava flows and how you can tell the age of a lava flow by the colour of the rock and if there is vegetation growing there. The shots below were from a lava flow about 200+ years ago apparently after 200 years it's very hard to easily notice the difference in age. After a fun drive upto the chair lifts at the base of Mt Etna we arrived and Emanuele got out the provided hiking equipment. I would listen to the guides advice and take the hiking shoes they offer as your own shoes will get rather dusty and certainly take a jacket and gloves for sure if you are here in early spring (April-May) as it does get very cold on top of Mt Etna. It's best not to wear shorts if you are travelling in Spring as two people did on our tour. It was really great being part of an organise tour as Emanuele was able to organise all the tickets for the chair lift ride and we were able to skip the massive line as we already had our tickets and were in an organised group. It was the first benefit of getting an all inclusive tour that we didn't waste anytime waiting in line. Once we arrived at the top of the chair lifts 2000m up Mt Etna we walked down a bit to some massive 4WD buses to take us up to the 2900m point to the base of the main crater. Passing a lot of people in the chair lift and in the 4x4 bus I was glad I opted for the transport option as a number of people we passed were really struggling to climb in mountain ash and loose rocks as you can see from the chairlift view below. We had a good amount of time at the top of Mt Etna and our guide stopped every 40-50 minutes as we walked around the crater to explain a bit more about what we were seeing and about the geography of the craters and geology of the area. This gave us plenty of time to take some amazing photos and the only thing that was missing was a great photo of the tour group while on the mountain. I'd make sure you pick a day that doesn't have too much cloud cover as you won't be able to enjoy as much of the mountain. After the exploration of the crater finished we headed back down via 4x4 buses to the chairlift and stopped at a lava tube, again all the equipment was provided including hard hats and led lamps to explore the tube. One of the ladies was claustrophobic so she stayed outside while we explored inside the lava tube. The tube was small but that was because the other 1.5 kilometers was closed off to tourists, but our guide was able to tell us the history of how the tube was created and how the locals used the tubes to create ice in winter. For lunch we stopped at Cantine Don Saro, a lovely little winery where had a lovely lunch package included in our trip. We were seated and soon greeted by The Don who talked about his wine, food and enjoying life. The table had several wines during lunch a white, a red and a rose but I didn't have any but most people seemed to enjoy them all. Entree was a plate of local salami, soft cheese, potato bake, garlic bread and Parmesan cheese. The food was good and certainly appreciated by everyone at the table, some of the ladies on our table received some free gifts of jewelry as a thank you for visiting the winery. They also have a number of great wines for sale in their store so I would suggest you pick up a bottle or two if you can. Our last stop was Alcantara Gorge which was an amazing lava flow that has been reclaimed by the river for form an awesome natural attraction, it's a paid attraction but yet again it was paid of the all-inclusive tour. The water was quite cold but it was so refreshing to walk through and some people on our tours were even brave enough to let their friends push them into the stream, but this was not me this day. Our guide talked a bit more about the rock formations that we were seeing and how they were created and how they were similar to the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. Probably one of the more expensive tours I've been on but certainly one of the best I have been on, can't recommend it enough, you must do a tour with Etna People for sure! They also have several other tours such as an all-day hiking trip, maybe next time

Best volcano tour ever! I've taken tours to see volcanos in Hawaii before but Mt Etna still blew me…read moreaway. The views were magnificent and was glad to spend the day with an amazing guide and great people. Ezio was our guide for the Etna Day Trip in November and was super knowledgable. We took all the backtrails and avoided the tourist crowd (so glad!,) and had the most amazing views of Etna and the Gorge Alcantara. Itinerary: Hiking to Etna craters, Lava cave exploration, Lunch & wine tasting at an Etna winery, Gorge Alcantara. They provided helmets, flashlights for the lava cave part of the tour, and hiking shoes for people who don't have proper footwear. All you need is atheletic-ish clothing and a warm jacket. Highlight of my Italy trip. Highly recommended.