Designed around your occasion

Plan your special occasion journey in Italy

Tell us what you are celebrating, the dates you are considering and the kind of pace and experiences you enjoy. We will shape a private Italy itinerary around your plans, from art and cultural guiding to wine-country lunches, coastal time and memorable dining.

Most requested celebration

Milestone birthday journeys

Celebrate a 50th, 60th or 70th birthday with private dining, memorable hotels, and experiences shaped around couples, families, or friends.

Significant anniversaries

Shape an important anniversary around romantic hotels, private tastings, scenic transfers, and a celebration dinner for two or shared with family.

Retirement and semi-retirement travel

Create a relaxed wish-list journey with signature destinations, meaningful private access, and enough time to enjoy each stop.

Celebrations for couples and friends

Bring together a couple or small group of established friends through private food, wine, cultural, and scenic experiences matched to shared interests.

Honeymoons

Slow the pace with beautiful suites, unhurried mornings, private meals, spa or coastal time, and seamless transfers between stays.

Private milestone travel, shaped around Italy

Celebrate beautifully in Italy

Italy is a natural setting for honeymoons, anniversaries, milestone birthdays, retirement trips and long-awaited family journeys, with romantic cities, cinematic coastlines, vineyard landscapes, private guides, exceptional hotels and memorable dining.

Every itinerary is designed individually around the occasion, your interests, your preferred pace and the people traveling with you.

Cellar Tours creates private Italy journeys that combine cultural landmarks with carefully selected food and wine experiences. Your route might include Tuscany and Florence; Piedmont and the Lakes; Sicily; Venice and the Veneto; the Amalfi Coast and Capri; Umbria; Rome; or the Italian Riviera.

We focus on comfort, access, and flow. We plan private chauffeured travel, expert city and regional guides, handpicked hotels, private winery visits and tastings, special meals and days that feel polished without being overfilled.

Italy works especially well for special occasion travel because it can be deeply romantic without feeling one-dimensional: art, wine, food, coast, countryside, design, history and celebration can all sit naturally within the same private journey.

Since 2003: Private luxury wine, food and cultural travel
Italy-wide: Tuscany, Piedmont, Amalfi Coast, Sicily, Veneto and the Lakes
Tailor-made: Honeymoons, anniversaries, birthdays, retirements and family journeys
Private services throughout: Private chauffeurs, guides, winery appointments and boat experiences, with hotels and dining selected around your preferences

What our clients say

Thank you so much for arranging such a fantastically special trip to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary.

Shelby and Ralph Szygenda Private Italy anniversary journey

Featured private journeys

Ways to celebrate in Italy

These itineraries are starting points. Each journey can be adapted around the occasion, your hotel style, preferred pace, season and the regions you most want to experience.

Celebrate among Renaissance art, Chianti Classico, Brunello, Super Tuscan estates, hill towns, private guides and elegant countryside hotels.

Pair Langhe vineyards, Barolo and Barbaresco cellars, Alba truffles and boutique estates with refined hotel time in northern Italy.

Combine Positano, Ravello, Capri, private boat time, coastal dining and Campania wine country with relaxed private logistics.

Explore Palermo, Taormina, Etna estates, Marsala, Greek sites, Baroque towns and Mediterranean dining on a grand private island journey.

Blend Venice, Verona, Amarone, Prosecco, Palladian villas, Lake Garda and private water transfers into a romantic northern Italy route.

Travel from Parma and Modena to Amarone, Franciacorta, Lake Como and Venice through private tastings, artisan food experiences and fine dining.

Personal planning

Meet Your Tour Planner

Simona Piccinelli Sales Director

Born in Brescia, in the heart of Franciacorta wine country, Simona brings first-hand knowledge of Italy and its wine culture to every journey she plans. She regularly travels through Italy’s wine regions, visiting wineries and hotels, meeting local guides and restaurant partners, scouting new destinations and experiences, and reviewing feedback from Cellar Tours guests. Fluent in Italian, English and French, Simona uses her local knowledge and wine-industry experience to help travelers choose the region, itinerary style and pace that best match their interests.

Travel at your own pace

Comfort and flexibility built into the journey

Because every itinerary is private and tailored, we can shape the route, hotel style, chauffeured travel, guides, winery visits and daily pace around the people traveling together, with no fixed group departure and no need to overfill the days.

Plan with confidence

Helpful guides before you travel

Your services are arranged for your party and confirmed in advance in your personal proposal. Share any mobility considerations, dietary requirements and preferred pace early so they can be built into the itinerary.

Planning guide

How Private Wine Tour Planning Works

Learn how we design tailor-made journeys, select regions and hotels, and build each itinerary around your interests.

Read the planning guide

Seasonal guide

Best Months for Wine Tours

Compare seasons, temperatures and vineyard conditions to choose a comfortable time to travel.

Explore the month-by-month guide

Why Cellar Tours

Private travel, planned with care

For milestone travel, the details matter. Our role is to shape the route, hotels, timing, guides and special experiences so the journey feels smooth from the first conversation to the final day.

Licensed, insured and fully bonded travel agency Operating since 2003, with a dedicated Italy specialist on the team since 2005.
Private travel specialists No fixed group departures; every itinerary is private and tailored.
Trusted Italian partners Guides, chauffeurs, wineries, hotels, restaurants and boat providers selected for fit and reliability.
Recommended by leading publications Cellar Tours has been featured by National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure.

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