Marsala wine private tour and tasting from Palermo

The tour will start from your hotel or accommodation in Palermo. Your driver will pick you up around 8:30 am in a Mercedes-Benz Vito van with a capacity of 8 seats.

The first stop of the tour will be at Bar La Sorgente in Castellammare del Golfo, to have breakfast and taste the famous "Cassatelle" made with sheep's ricotta, a local specialty.

After about 20 minutes on the motorway, you will reach the Archaeological Park of Segesta, an ancient city with 2,800 years of history, founded by the Elimi, a people originally from ancient Troy. Absolutely worth seeing are the Ancient Theater carved into the rock at the top of Monte Barbaro and the Doric Temple of Segesta, with its imposing colonnade on the edge of a cliff more than 100 meters deep.

After a couple of hours (approximately), you will leave Segesta and continue in the direction of Erice, an ancient stronghold also of Elymian origin located at 750 meters above sea level. Whoever ruled in Sicily over time necessarily had to conquer Erice and Enna, and so did the Romans, the Arabs, the Normans and the Spanish. In Erice you can breathe the good air and enjoy the splendid view of Trapani and the Egadi Islands, as well as tasting the famous Genoese and almond paste biscuits, the first fruits of the confectionery art of the cloistered nuns of the numerous existing convents.

You can also have lunch in one of the many local restaurants and trattorias and taste the traditional cuisine of Trapani, or stop in some chip shop and enjoy a nice Arancina or a nice piece of Rianata (local pizza).

Around 3.30pm you will leave the beautiful and mysterious Erice. After just an hour on the road, the fresh and clean air of Mount Erice will give way to the intense smell of salt and poseidonia. You will reach the monumental entrance of the historic Cantina Florio in Marsala, founded exactly in 1833.

Take a dive into the traditional culture of Marsala wine, through a guided tour in one of the oldest cellars in Sicily. Here you will taste the real Marsala, a product that made the history of Sicilian winemaking thanks to the Florio family. You will have the opportunity to visit the interior of the historic cellars and, at the end of the tour, you will taste three Marsala Florio wines accompanied by 3 food pairings (the duration of the experience is approximately 1.5 hours).

Finally, you will be taken back to your hotel, which you will reach around 7.30pm after experiencing and savoring a small part of Sicily.