Frascati Wine & Pasta Making Class from Rome with Dinner

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Duration2h 30m

GroupUp to 18

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You Make the Pasta, Then You Eat It—in a Roman Wine Cellar

You take the train from Rome to Frascati, taste two family wines with local appetizers, learn to make fresh pasta by hand, choose your Roman sauce, cook and eat your own dish in the wine cellar, then tour the storage caves below. The whole experience runs about half a day and includes everything except your train ticket back.

2h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Train to Frascati and pasta making

Take train from Rome to Frascati
Walk and explore Frascati town
Visit family wine cellar
Taste two family wines with appetizers
Learn to make homemade pasta
Choose Roman sauce and cook pasta
Enjoy pasta dinner with wine
Tour wine caves below cellar

The Experience

You're sitting on a train out of Rome, and it hits you: you're about to spend the afternoon making pasta with your hands in a place most tourists never reach. The ride to Frascati takes less than an hour, and the countryside rolls past—vineyards, stone walls, the kind of quiet that Rome doesn't have. Paolo and Simone meet you at the station and walk you through their town, pointing out the corners locals know, the history that goes back to Roman times. It's small enough that you can feel the difference between here and the city you just left.

Then you're in their family wine cellar—actually underground, which you'll see later—and the first thing that happens is a glass of Frascati Superiore D.O.C.G. lands in your hand, paired with local meats and cheese. They explain what all those letters mean, and it sticks because you're tasting it, not reading about it. A second wine follows, a red called Vagnolo from their own vineyard. You're drinking wine and eating while standing in a room that smells like fermentation and age, and nobody's rushing you.

Then the apron goes on. The chef shows you how to mix and roll pasta from scratch—no machine, just your hands and the dough. You choose which Roman sauce you want to cook it in: Carbonara, Amatriciana, or Cacio e Pepe. The chef guides you through it, and when it's done, you sit down at a table with the other people in the group and eat what you made. The pasta is yours. You cooked it. It tastes different because of that. Wine keeps flowing. People talk longer than they planned to. After dinner, Paolo or Simone takes you down into the wine caves below—the actual storage tunnels where the bottles age—and you understand why they wanted you to see it.

The train back to Rome leaves you with dirt under your fingernails and the kind of tired that comes from doing something with your hands. Gluten-free pasta is available if you need it, and vegetarian or vegan options work too—just let them know when you book so they can plan the menu.

What’s included

Your day includes the pasta-making class with instruction from the chef, two wines from the family vineyard (Frascati Superiore D.O.C.G. and Vagnolo), a welcome aperitif with local meats and cheese, your choice of three Roman pasta sauces (Carbonara, Amatriciana, or Cacio e Pepe), the cooked pasta you make yourself, dinner in the wine cellar, and a tour of the underground wine caves.
Gluten-free pasta, vegetarian, and vegan options are available with advance notice.
The train ticket from Rome to Frascati is not mentioned in the inclusions—confirm whether you buy it separately or if it's covered.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcomePublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by From Scratch - Authentic Experiences

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to step out of Rome's tourist rhythm for half a day and learn something with your hands while eating what you made—the small group size and the family running it are what make it feel like you're visiting friends, not taking a class.