Venice: Prosecco Wine Region Tour & 2 Tastings

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Duration6h

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Two Wineries, Two Tastings, One Afternoon in the Prosecco Hills

You meet your guide at Piazzale Roma and drive into the Prosecco Hills to visit two family wineries, where winemakers explain their production methods and you taste six glasses total across two sessions. A light lunch with local products and vineyard photo stops fill the afternoon. The private minivan and group coordinator handle all the timing and transport, so you show up and experience the region without arranging anything yourself.

Step-by-step itinerary

Prosecco wine tour and tastings

Meet guide at Piazzale Roma
Travel through Prosecco hills region
Visit first traditional winery
Guided wine tasting at first winery
Enjoy light lunch with local products
Photo stop in vineyards
Visit second winery
Second wine tasting session

The Experience

So you're in Venice and someone mentions the Prosecco region is actually close by — like, you could be in the vineyards by mid-morning if you didn't want to spend another day on the canals. The tour picks you up at Piazzale Roma, right where the cars are, in front of Il Vinatier restaurant (your guide holds a sign, so you can't miss it), and from there it's a drive into Valdobbiadene and Conegliano. The landscape shifts pretty fast — suddenly you're surrounded by these rolling hills covered in vines, the kind of view that makes you understand why they call it UNESCO patrimony. It's not dramatic like the Dolomites; it's quieter, more intimate. The hills just keep going, and the vineyards are everywhere.

The first winery is family-run, and the winemaker actually walks you through how they make Prosecco — not a canned speech, but the real story of their operation. You get three glasses during the tasting session, and they're not tiny pours; you taste the actual range of what they produce. The wine is fresh, kind of elegant in a way that makes sense once someone explains the grapes and the soil. After that, you stop for a light lunch with seasonal local products — nothing heavy, just enough to sit with the wine and the view. Then there's a photo break, which sounds like nothing until you're standing there with the hills rolling out behind you and you realize you actually want the picture.

The second winery is where they explain the Charmat method — the specific way Prosecco gets its bubbles, which is different from Champagne and actually matters if you care about that kind of thing. Another three glasses, another tasting session, and by the time you're comparing the aromas between the two wineries, you've actually learned something instead of just drinking wine in a pretty place. The whole day runs in a private minivan with a group coordinator, so it's small enough that people actually talk, but organized enough that you're not waiting around or figuring out logistics yourself. You're back in Venice by late afternoon, which means you can still catch dinner or just sit by the canal and think about what you drank.

What’s included

Your day includes pickup at Piazzale Roma in a private minivan, visits to two traditional family-run wineries in the Prosecco Hills, two wine tasting sessions with three glasses at each winery, wine pairing snacks during tastings, a light lunch with seasonal local products, a photo stop in the vineyards, and a group coordinator to manage timing and logistics throughout the afternoon.

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Operated by Ways

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste real Prosecco in the actual region where it's made without renting a car or figuring out which wineries to visit — the private minivan and winemaker visits handle both the logistics and the expertise, leaving you to focus on the wine and the hills.