Looking for a gift for someone who loves Sicily, good food or wine? An object is forgotten, an experience is not. Here are some ideas for giving a piece of Sicily to live, with a concrete example: winery experiences given with a gift card.
Why give an experience
A day at a winery brings together everything that makes a trip to Sicily special: the vineyard landscape, local food, the people who make the wine. And it is shared: you can give it to a couple, to your parents or to a group of friends.
Experiences to give at Quattrocieli winery
At Quattrocieli winery, in the hills of Alcamo between Palermo and Trapani, you can give five experiences, all with the winery’s organic wines:
- Journey through flavours and aromas (€40 per person): a winery visit, three wines with local cured meats and cheeses and a bottle to label with your own name.
- A morning with the winemaker (€50 per person): vineyard and cellar with the person who makes the wine, four wines and a tasting straight from the barrel.
- Create your own blend (€50 per person): a workshop where you taste the base wines and make your own wine, to take home in a bottle.
- Saturday lunch at the winery (€50 per person): a Sicilian lunch with seasonal produce and a tasting, from March to October.
- Wine and sunset, on Fridays (€50 per person): a light dinner among the vines at sunset, from May to September.
How the gift card works
- Choose the experience and the number of people on the gift card page.
- Write the name of the person receiving the gift and, if you like, a personal message.
- After payment the gift card arrives by email, ready to print or forward. You can also have it sent directly to the recipient.
- The recipient has one year to use it and chooses the date by contacting the winery.
A tip: if you give a seasonal experience out of season, such as Saturday lunch in winter, the recipient can book it the following season, within the gift card’s validity.
More ideas: wine at home
If the person you are giving to lives far from Sicily, the wine can travel instead. The winery’s online shop has whites from the Alcamo DOC such as Catarratto, reds, sparkling wine, Marsala and Sicilian preserves, with shipping in Italy and abroad.
A gift, and an excuse to travel
A winery gift card is also an invitation to travel. To round off the day, nearby you will find the historic centre of Alcamo, the sea at Castellammare del Golfo and the Zingaro Nature Reserve.