Vesuvius Wine Tasting and Lunch, Transfer from the Amalfi Coast
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4.7 · 3 reviewsOwner/ chef Ester gave us a special tour and allowed us to make a four course lunch in her home at the winery. We were in awe and loved making gnocchi and eggplant Parmesan. The wine and hospitality were great. We bought 5 cookbooks and I would go back in a second to try more food there.
We had a fabulous time here on the last day of our honeymoon! A very special and private tour filled with fine wine & great staff. We shipped bottles of everything we tasted back to the U.S. ! So good, support this locally owned business if you’re in the area!!
About This Experience
The Amalfi Coast's best-kept lunch secret is on the other side of the mountains: Cantina del Vesuvio, the Russo family's winery inside the National Park of Vesuvius, and this tour brings it within reach of Positano, Amalfi and Salerno with pickups from your hotel or straight from the ports of Amalfi and Salerno. The day trades one spectacular landscape for another. Your English-speaking driver carries you from the vertical coast to the volcano's south side, the slope the family credits for everything: full sun, the sea close enough to see, and the black volcanic soil that has grown vines here for two thousand years. At the winery, the visit runs deep rather than fast. A guided tour of the Russo family estate leads into a five-course tasting of Lacryma Christi DOC wines, joined by tastings of the estate's own wine vinegar and olive oil, and anchored by a three-course lunch of Vesuvius-area specialties. This is a long Italian table with a volcano over your shoulder, not a stop on a checklist. The wines themselves cannot follow you home by any other route: the family's limited production is sold exclusively at the winery, which makes the tasting genuinely exclusive rather than marketing-exclusive. What you drink at that table exists nowhere else. For coast-based travellers the format solves a real problem: Vesuvius-side experiences usually mean rebasing to Naples or Sorrento for a day. Here the transfer is the tour, hotel or port pickup, the scenic crossing, the long lunch, and home to the coast by evening, with a driver handling every hairpin both ways. Your date is confirmed instantly online through Wine Trails, booked direct with the operator and with no middleman markup on the price. Pair it wisely within a coast itinerary: the tour occupies a generous middle of the day, so bookend it with a slow breakfast in Positano and a sunset back on your own terrace. Summer dates fill first, the winery hosts limited tables, and the port pickups make it effortless even without a hotel on the main road. The Amalfi Coast perfects the view from the terrace; Vesuvius perfects what is in the glass. One day, one driver and one unforgettable table connect the two, and the only difficult part is deciding which bottles from a winery-only collection deserve space in your luggage.
Highlights
- ✓Taste organic Lacryma Christi DOP wines
- ✓Lunch at a family winery on the volcano
- ✓Travel by private transfer from the Amalfi Coast
- ✓Drink wine from vines phylloxera never reached
- ✓Swap the coast road for the crater views
What's Included
- ✓Lunch - 3 course lunch with samples of local specialties from Vesuvius
- ✓5 Course Wine Tastings of Lacryma Christi DOC from Vesuvius
- ✓Wine Vinegar and Olive Oil Tastings from Vesuvius
- ✓Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- ✓Pick-up and drop-off from Port of Amalfi and Salerno
- ✓English speaking driver
- ✓Tour Guided of the Russo Family Winery
- ✓Private Reserved Session on the terrace overlooking the gulf of Naples and Capri Island
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Cancellation Policy
Free cancellation up to 24000 hours before. 100% charge within 24 hours of start time.
Traveler Reviews
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Based on 3 reviews
An experience worth repeating
Owner/ chef Ester gave us a special tour and allowed us to make a four course lunch in her home at the winery. We were in awe and loved making gnocchi and eggplant Parmesan. The wine and hospitality were great. We bought 5 cookbooks and I would go back in a second to try more food there.
Sweet & family owned
We had a fabulous time here on the last day of our honeymoon! A very special and private tour filled with fine wine & great staff. We shipped bottles of everything we tasted back to the U.S. ! So good, support this locally owned business if you’re in the area!!
We came in 2017 & Returned in 2025
We came in 2017 with our entire family of 7. Today, we visited as a couple. So, the new “wine club” is perfetto. Beautiful views from the ocean and Mount Vesuvius. The wine and pairing is exceptional, come hungry, there’s plenty of food. The wine vinegar is exceptional. We bought 2 bottles. Great deals shipping wine back to the USA.
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