Learn to Pick the Wine Yourself: A Trastevere Tasting

The point of a tasting is what you can do afterwards without the person who ran it. This one is built that way: by the end you should be able to stand in front of a wine list in a Roman restaurant and order without pointing at the second cheapest bottle. The wines are poured with food chosen to go with them, and the pairing is explained as you drink, so the reason a particular wine works against a particular cheese is something you taste rather than take on trust. The operator pitches it at people who already care about wine. There is also a section on gelato, and how to tell the artisanal kind from the industrial version, which is a practical skill in a city where the two sit on the same street. Check which product you booked, because the two have different meeting points. The four-hour food and wine tour meets outside the Trapizzino restaurant at Piazza Trilussa 46, not in the middle of the square. The wine tasting meets at Via della Scala 27a, ten minutes before the start time.