Pesto Class and Wine Tasting in Vernazza, Cinque Terre

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What You’ll Experience
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1 hour 30 minutes
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1 - 10 guests
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English, Italian
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Join us in Vernazza's stunning cellar for hands-on pesto making. Savor Ligurian focaccia, cheeses, and wines. Craft pesto by hand and enjoy gnocchi and limoncino for a true culinary experience.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Learn how to prepare the most famous sauce in Liguria: PESTO!! We do everything by hand, with pestle and mortar, using only selected ingredients!


We will be in a typical cellar of the Cinque Terre, furnished with stone and wood, a dip in nineteenth-century Vernazza!


12:30 PEST CLASS

We will start with a wine tasting accompanied by focaccia, cheeses and extra virgin olive oils, prepare pesto in a mortar tasting the second wine, eat pesto gnocchi in a mortar with a third wine and finish with limoncino and chocolate!


15:00 OR 17:30 PESTO CLASS SNACK

We will start with a wine tasting, we will prepare pesto in a mortar tasting the second wine, we will eat pesto accompanied by focaccia, cheeses and extra virgin oils with a third wine and we will end with the shoe of bread in a mortar!

Sample Menu

STARTER
Tasting plate
Ligurian focaccia, bread, cheeses and oils
MAIN
Gnocchi with pesto
Served in a mortar
DESSERT
Lemon and Chocolate

What You Get

Snacks
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Good To Know

  • Alcoholic beverages are reserved for those over 18 years of age. Minors may substitute with carbonated beverages.
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap

What You’ll Experience

We will learn how to make pesto with a mortar according to the ancient Ligurian tradition, we will taste 3 Cinque Terre wines and 3 extra virgin oils, accompanied by focaccia, and cheese, the pesto made by you will be used at 12.30 to season the gnocchi and we will end with limoncino and chocolate, while in the snack of 15 and 17:30 we will make a shoe with bread and focaccia!

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Pesto Class and Wine Tasting in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, 12:30 pm
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Meeting Point

Via Roma 71, Via Roma, Vernazza Provincia della Spezia Liguria, Italy, IT, 19018

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From the train station you have to head up the hill, Cinque Sensi is after only 20 meters on the left, in the Piazzetta dei Caduti, for any doubt contact us via whatsapp
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This experience ends at the meeting point.

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For experiences with opening hours, the cancellation deadline is 24 hours before the earliest opening time on the scheduled date.

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