Ormina Tours hosts agents in Piedmont, Italy

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ORMINA Tours recently hosted a group of 10 agents plus their partners on a small group journey through the Italian countryside on Ormina’s new Food, Wine and Truffles Tour.

This tour showcases the culinary delights of the picturesque Piedmont region of Italy, with the area’s gastronomic specialties a focus of the tour, including truffle-infused cuisine paired with the finest Barolo and Barbaresco wines.

Piedmont produces the world-famous Alba white truffle, and boasts one of Italy’s finest winegrowing regions; not to mention charming towns set amidst rolling green hills.

During the famil agents experienced Turin, Milan, Alba and a number of other classical Italian towns and enjoyed Ormina Tours’ gentle pace, which allowed plenty of time for the agents to explore the region at their own leisure.

RIGHT: Karla Bett, Emma Whiting; Ross Bett, James Winyard; Emmily Winyard, CPE Travel and Gay Boersma, Travel Designers, Canberra enjoying lunch at Bruno Rocco Winery. The highlights included a hands-on experience of Piedmont cuisine, a truffle hunt and tasting experince, wine tastings, an aged cheese sampling, and a cooking class to teach them how to get the most out of Italian ingredients.

During the trip the group stayed at properties including Relais Villa d’Amelia and Villa Sparina, and ate at restaurants including Bar Covour and Chef Damiano, Nigro’s one-star Michelin restaurant.

Agents can register their interest in Ormina’s next famil HERE. LEFT: The group unlocked the mystery of the elusive truffle on a truffle hunt using specially trained hunting dogs.