Get into the thick of it
Discovering Italy is an inside job.
Don’t skim the surface; instead, sift through the layers that create a culture and terroir. Cooking and wine courses for the curious or a week exploring what you won’t find in your guidebook, we want to share with you what we love: cooking, wine appreciation, being in nature.
Bespoke private tours off the beaten path, intimate cooking classes or our carefully researched retreats, led by professionals with decades of experience and local roots. This is the opposite of a whirlwind tour, there are no check lists to cross off manically. This is slow, deep travel into the heart of places we know and love. Visiting local suppliers from the area, walking paths into the natural beauty that lies around almost every corner of Italy, passing by sheep to eat polenta in a mountain hut, covering our hands with flour for pasta making and learning why your nebbiolo doesn’t taste like oak but rather the soil that you are standing on. This is what we offer.
JOIN US
Discovering Italy is an inside job: life is too short to only collect experiences, come and immerse yourself in a small community through food and wine we try to unlock a more vertical and indepth experience of a place, a culture and their people. A real experience for us is something that leaves you not only amazing memories but changed and forever enriched.
DIscover the pleasures of simple living, sustainability and community while gathered around a table,out on the land, in the wild or in a kitchen classroom.
DISCOVER OUR EXPERIENCES
A few hours or a full week – YOU DECIDE!
COOKING CLASSES
We host our classes in the beautiful classroom space at Fusillo Lab in Milan. Alice Delcourt – along with her talented chef colleagues – shares decades of professional cooking experience through her hands-on courses which are followed by a multicourse meal.
New dates coming soon!
RETREATS / TOURS
Our retreats offer off-the-beaten-track experiences in secret corners of Italy.
Alice Delcourt and Danilo Ingannamorte will share their long standing and personal relationships with amazing wine producers, sustainable farmers and talented artisans. Enjoy guided hikes through local landscapes, plant-forward, delicious meals by a professional chef, cooking classes, daily wine lessons and visits to local sites- embark on the journey of really getting to know the history, culture and what is special about the destination.
Yoga, excursions, and cooking (Toscana)
11 - 17 May 2025
Yoga, excursions, and cooking (Piemonte)
11 - 17 May 2025
Wine and Truffles in Langhe
19 - 24 Oct 2025
Wine in Alto Piemonte
31 Aug - 5 Sep 2025
This is travel that comes full circle
And what better way to immerse ourselves than through movement: on foot, up a mountain or across a lush vineyard as you see firsthand where the local grape varieties are grown. Perhaps nourish your body through yoga or by walking local trails. Recharge. Relax. Nourish. Learn. This is travel that comes full circle. By tuning into where you are and into your own body, the pleasure of sitting around a table enjoying honest food is that much greater and profound. You have exerted yourself and acquired new skills and knowledge. (Plus, there’s nothing more delicious than a meal earned!)
This isn’t a visit; it’s an EXPERIENCE.
TAILOR MADE TRIPS
Have an experience in mind?
We would love to work with you to create a tailor made experience.
A private gnocchi making class? An outdoor wedding on our farm Orto Brusco? A family reunion retreat hiking through Northern Piemonte and learning about local Nebbiolos? We would love to make that happen for you.
Contact us to discuss how we can combine your vision with what we offer to create the unique experience you are looking for.
Shared meals, group activities, and the communal love for yoga and wine created an inclusive environment where friendships flourished. Alice and Danilo ensure that the experience went beyond the yoga mat and wine glass.
JILL – September retreat Participant
WHO WE ARE
A little about our hosts
DANILO
farmer, sommelier,
carpenter, manager
ALICE
chef and co-owner of
Ristorante Erba Brusca
