Top Group Tour Picks for 2017
We’ve helped you narrow down choices for the best trips we can tailor to your own group. The following 4 trips offer a variety of scenery, cycling levels, all chock-full of cultural events and happenings designed and curated to perfectly fit your unique group of travel companions. Read on to learn more about our favorite picks for 2017…
Piedmont: Land of Barolo & Truffles (Grape Harvest)
What could be more exciting for your local cycling or wine club than a bike trip through Piedmont during the harvest season? How about those gym buddies? Milonga group? Your circle of active, life-long family friends or singles group?
For any special group of friends with whom you share the passion of riding plus the love of food and wine, it’s time for Piedmont to rise to the top of your bucket list!
Piedmont: Barolo and Truffles just shouts out an over-the-top ultimate foodie-wine experience that can’t be beat or repeated in any other place we know. Piedmont is top notch and our trip covers it all. With 8 Ciclismo Classico native Piedmont guides on our team, we are more than top experts in this rich, intensely sophisticated region.
In our opinion, harvest season is the best time to go. The thrill and excitement of tasting vini novelli (new, young wines) or wines that are prime for drinking–while watching the harvest in progress, is a special treat for any wine enthusiast. From small producers to large winery properties, we cover a wide spectrum of visits and experiences to share different approaches, different stories. Barolo. Dolcetto. Nebbiolo. We taste them all.
Grab your friends and come pedal with us through some of the world’s most prestigious, beautiful wine country!
FALL EVENTS IN PIEDMONT (add these events as pre-or-post-tour days to your group Harvest trip)
Next September 2017, there is the Bra Cheese Festival, Bra: Every other year, the Slow Food Organization hosts its international Cheese Festival in Bra. The event features cheese from all over the world, a beer tent, a wine and cheese hall and more.
The Alba White Truffle Fair: The biggest truffle fair in the world takes place over six weekends from mid-October to mid-November. The area organizes truffle seminars, events, and wine tastings in conjunction with the fair.
In November the local Piemontesi celebrate Bagna Cauda Day: A three-day event that celebrates one of the region’s most prized dishes. Bagna Cauda is an olive oil-based fondue of anchovy and garlic served over an open flame to keep it warm. Seasonal vegetables and bread accompany it for dipping.
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Assaggio Toscana (Taste Tuscany)
Tuscany when you want it and the way you like it. Cycle through Tuscany YOUR WAY!
Our six-day Assaggio Toscana is the ideal group itinerary with something to offer everyone: history, culture, jaw-dropping vistas and landscapes, ideal cycling roads, and food and wine experiences galore. Add in more wine tastings? Cooking lessons? A truffle hunt? We’ve got all the right connections, relationships and ingredients to expand this trip in any direction—to the tastes and likings of your own particular group.
Our exceptional voyage through Tuscany launches on the Etruscan Sette Ponti—“Road of the Seven Bridges—travelinng to Renaissance Arezzo and ending in the place where ‘Life Is (surely) Beautiful’: the hamlet of Cortona. A combination of leisurely rides, authentic properties and invigorating daily rides. The 5 night/6 day trip length and culture-filled options gel to make this trip magical—especially for any first time travelers to Italy.
This is a no-brainer. Your group will absolutely adore this trip!
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La Costa Brava
Looking for a Spanish twist on sun and fun for your group of friends or family? Our La Costa Brava trip offers all that and more in an ideal location to soak in the rays, eat like kings and queens and cycle along gorgeous, coastal roads. This trip picks up in the medieval city of Girona—just 45 minutes from Barcelona–and ends in the delightful Tossa de Mar. Evening seafood feasts, coastal dunes, caves and coves to explore at every turn; this trip offers you and your group the ideal, relaxing, coastal bike vacation. Pure Paradise.
The kind we (an you) like to dream about!
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Bike Across France
Looking for the best way to visit France with your favorite group of food-savvy cycling buddies?
For the wine-and-food-loving cyclist who dreams of whizzing by storybook castles along lush green countryside or exploring stone villages and prehistoric sites, nothing can match the above and beyond sensorial experience of our Bike Across France trip. We raise the bar with special tastings and exposure to a diverse collection of great French wines throughout the trip.
You and your group can discover the New World as you cycle these three regions of France: Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrenees and Languedoc-Roussillion (in the southwest). These exciting areas rival the best of Italy for their storied histories, awesome castles, lush green scenery, stone villages, excellent wines, ancient art, prehistoric sites, generous people, and mouth-watering provincial cuisine! Explore it with us on this extraordinary, delicious offbeat itinerary.
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