The Best Food and Wine Tours Around the World

Northern Italy is famed for its delicious pasta, pizza and wine, and on this nine-day Rail Trip, you’ll not only get to taste those culinary delights, but also discover how to make them. Savour classic Roman cuisine at Ristorante al 34, an excellent, family-run trattoria in the capital, and sip fine wines on a vineyard tour in the village of San Gimignano, on a day excursion from Florence. You’ll also cook a rustic Tuscan lunch in a pasta-and-tiramisu-making class, before rounding off your northern Italian adventure with a street food tour and farewell dinner at elegant restaurant, 10 Corso Como, in Milan.

Georgia might not immediately come to mind when you think of the world’s prime wine destinations, but it’s actually where the first known wine was produced in 6000BCE, when grape juice was buried in barrels and fermented over winter. On this nine-day adventure, you’ll watch a master craftsman demonstrate the Georgian winemaking process, and join a local family for home-baked bread and churchkhela – a traditional, sausage-shaped sweet made from nuts and thickened grape juice. The national dish, khachapuri (bread stuffed with cheese and baked with an egg) is also a must-try.