18. Aprile 2026

Why Walk the Prosecco Hills With Me: Private Tours With a Local Sommelier

Private Prosecco Hills Tours – Local Sommelier Guide in Conegliano Valdobbiadene UNESCO

Discover the hidden gems of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene UNESCO hills with Oriana, a local sommelier who grew up here. Small wineries, real winemakers, breathtaking views. Private tours at orianancc.it

There are tours. And then there is this.

These are not landscapes I learned from a guidebook. They are the hills I walked as a child, the vineyards I watched change with the seasons, the families I have known my whole life. The old vines, the hidden corners, the views that stop your breath on the rise of a hill — I know them the way you know the rooms of your own house. Instinctively. Completely. With love.

That is what I offer you. Not a tour. A homecoming — mine, shared with you.

Small cellars. Real people. Real wine.

Forget the large wineries with their tasting rooms designed for busloads of tourists. I take you somewhere different.

The cellars I visit are small, family-owned, often invisible to the outside world. The person who pours your wine is the same person who pruned the vines in February, who worried about the frost in April, who made every decision that ended up in your glass. The owner pours and tells the story. I am beside you — as a sommelier and as someone who knows this land — to help you understand what is in your glass, why it tastes the way it does, and why it could only have come from here.

This is not a performance. This is someone's life's work, opened for you.

You will taste Prosecco Superiore DOCG the way it was meant to be tasted — in the place where it was born, with the person who made it, surrounded by the hills it came from.

The hidden gems.

The Conegliano Valdobbiadene UNESCO hills are full of places that do not appear on any map. Viewpoints that open suddenly on a curve of the road, taking your breath before you have time to prepare. Ancient terraces cut into hillsides so steep they seem impossible. Corners of landscape so perfectly preserved they feel untouched by time.

I know where they are. I have always known.

The constant rise and fall of these hills — the saliscendi that defines this extraordinary landscape — is not just beautiful. It is the reason the wine is extraordinary. The slopes force the vines to work. The elevation creates the temperature differences that build complexity in the grape. Every breathtaking view on our tour is also a lesson in why what is in your glass tastes the way it does.

Food, culture, tradition.

Wine here has never existed alone. It lives inside a culture — of food, of family, of seasons, of rituals repeated for generations. I know these traditions from the inside.

The dishes that belong to this land. The way a meal moves here, slowly, with intention, with wine chosen not to impress but to belong. The stories behind the recipes, the producers, the families. This is the context that transforms a good tasting into a memory you carry home forever.

This landscape is UNESCO for a reason.

In 2019, the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site — recognised as a landscape of outstanding universal value, shaped over centuries by the hands of the people who live here.

I am one of those people.

When you walk these hills with me, you are not observing this landscape from the outside. You are inside it, guided by someone who belongs to it. Someone who can tell you not just what you are seeing, but what it means — the history beneath the soil, the stories behind the vines, the lives that made this place what it is.

This is not a tour for everyone.

It is for people who want to understand, not just to visit. Who want to taste, not just to drink. Who want to meet the people behind the wine, not just the wine itself. Who want to stand on a hillside at golden hour and feel, for a moment, that they belong here too.

If that is you — I would love to walk these hills with you.

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