From Milan: Barolo Wine Tasting, Alba & UNESCO Castle-Small Group
Overview
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10 hours 30 minutes
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This is a small-group Barolo wine tour designed to avoid crowds, rushed schedules, and tourist tasting rooms.
Visit carefully selected, family-run wineries in the Langhe hills of Piedmont, where you taste DOC and DOCG red wines and learn directly about local production.
Travel in a private, air-conditioned minibus, not a large bus, with adequate time at each stop for tastings, lunch, and photos.
Enter traditional wine cellars, be guided directly by the producers, and taste in a cool, quiet setting — comfortable even in summer.
Between visits, enjoy vineyard views and small historic villages typical of the Barolo area.
No large groups. No rushing.
Just a well-organized day focused on wine quality, comfort, and local producers, led by an English-speaking tour guide
Additional Info
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Travel time is included in the total duration.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Alba
Alba is known for its historic charm, excellent cuisine, and the famous White Truffle Fair, held on weekends in October and November. Explore the medieval towers and the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, the town’s main cathedral. Browse local shops for some of the world’s best hazelnut cream, or enjoy lunch in a small, traditional restaurant serving Piedmont specialties such as fresh egg pasta and veal with tuna sauce.
Barolo
Visit a family-run winery in a panoramic setting surrounded by vineyards. Enter the cellars and learn directly from the winemakers about the production of Barolo, a strictly regulated wine made only from Nebbiolo grapes, with precise rules governing vineyard location, aging, and classification. Discover how each hill and vineyard has its own name and character, influencing structure, aroma, and aging potential. Taste at least six DOC and DOCG red wines, sometimes seven, including Barolo, during a guided tasting focused on quality, terroir, terroir expression, and local tradition.
What‘s Included
Walking tour and free time in Alba
Travel in a private van
Stop at a UNESCO-listed castle or panoramic viewpoint (Panoramic viewpoint on Tuesdays)
Guided tasting of 6 Langhe DOC & DOCG red wines, including Barolo
Visit to a family-run winery with cellar access
Licensed, professional English-speaking tour guide
local recommendations provided
Optional
Hotel pickup and drop off
Options
Semi Private 7 people + pickup
Luxury van for 7 people: Pickup and drop off included
Guided by Oleg or Stefano: Abroads Tours founders who created this itinerary.
Small group Barolo tour
Reviews
678 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great Local Tour
Z6233WKrichardy,,Dec 18, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A really fruitful tour and the wine tasting part is just fantastic! Our guide Stefano is absolutely fun, knowledgeable and super helpful. He introduced a lot about Italy, particularly Milan, in an informative yet entertaining way from a local perspective (can really feel his love for the city). Highly recommended the tour to those who don’t want to just do shallow touristy stuff, but would like to explore Italy in a more in-depth way.
Highly recommend!
hiun480,,Dec 18, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Absolutely amazing and comfortable experience. Our tour guide Stefano is witty and informative. He also provides very detailed guide and recommendations to us from a local perspective.
Awesome opportunities to taste Barolo and Barbaresco wines plus complimentary tasting of tartufo
chinyeeg,,Dec 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Oleg is an amazing guide, making this Langhe wine tour a most awesome one that gave us insightful information about Langhe wine region, plus additional information about Italy in general along the tour, which we greatly appreciated, and the visit to the castle, Alba town and Montaribaldi winery is memorable!
Authentic wine tasting tour close to Milano
pauliinaa2023,,Dec 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Well planned, authentic norther Italian wine tour while visiting a beautiful town known by its Michelin star restaurants, ending in wine yard with scenic views and sunset, tasting one of the best Barolo and Barbares wines. The tour took a full day, allowing to fully emerge into the Italian local culture, food and wine. We were a small, very international group moving around with Mercedes van. Totally worth the price!
Best of Langhe with Oleg
RRGoh,,Dec 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Oleg’s tour was the most cost efficient and fuss free methods to explore Langhe and the Barolo wine region from Milan. The tour was small and personal - he shared a lot during the ride and we had the opportunity of spending time in the beautiful town Alba, feasting on hyperlocal cuisine, and spending a generous amount of time in a local Barolo vineyard to taste the best of Langhe. It’s a tour I would highly recommend to anyone looking for both wine tasting and sightseeing.
Wonderful wine tour
Casey C,,Dec 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Great tour. Our guide was entertaining and informative. Loved that we got to see the town of Alba and spend time exploring shops and restaurants. Loved the winery we went to. Perfect wine tasting.
Full day adventure in Alba
luiscP5431XF,,Dec 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Really fun and excellent value for money : small group, very confi van, knowledgeable guide but also fun, and amazing wines. I’d definitely recommend if you’re looking for a wine tour from Milano
Great experience!
daddylongleg83,,Dec 1, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Our tour guide Chiara was very nice and professional. It’s a small group tour so the whole journey was smooth and friendly. We tried a few barbaresco and two barolo wine, at a beautiful vineyard in the Bararesco area. Would like to visit Barolo next time when we come to piedmont again. We didn’t join the truffle product tasting but went to the Alba Truffle fair instead which was amazing.
Would recommend this tour
alexaG5550JA,,Dec 1, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The wine tour was a very good experience. Oleg was very knowledgeable about the piedmont area and informed us about everything. We also got picked up very close to our accomodation and dropped off close to it as well. We had a very good time on this tour and would recommend it to anyone who is interested. You will see some very interesting historic sites and some amazing winery.
Great place to get to worth your visit in Milano
malv0r,,Nov 29, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Chiara was really amazing on our tour, if I am honest I am not used of this types of experience and I took the risk and paid the price, let me say is TOTALLY worth it, from the Alba tour, the truffle tasting and the incredible place she booked us to have lunch (always as a recommendation and not as a mandatory tricky thing) I felt the experience was totally worth it. Then we had to keep on going to the main tasting on the winery and even the personal there was so nice (I meant it, my dad ask for an extra glass tasting on almost every wine and he got it 😋). From a solo traveler on a low budget I highly recommend this as an investment to get to know italy more than a big city as Milano is.
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