Savor, Wander, Nourish: A Piedmont Immersion
Seven Days in Piedmont. One Private Villa. Women Who Get It.
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Step Into Mediterranean Magic
The Piedmont area of Italy nourishes you before you’ve taken a single bite. The vineyards here are UNESCO-protected, the wine cellars hold 100,000 bottles of living history, and the town of Bra gave birth to the Slow Food Movement as a deliberate act of resistance against speed. Seven days in this landscape, staying together in a private villa surrounded by forested hills and ancient stone villages, has a way of returning you to something you didn’t realize you’d been missing.
You’ll hunt for truffles at dawn with a seasoned local expert and his scent-trained dogs. You’ll visit the beekeepers and goat cheese makers who have kept these traditions alive for generations. You’ll hike the Castagna Granda Trail to a chestnut tree closing in on 400 years. And you’ll eat extraordinarily well, every single day, at long tables, in good company, without any reason to rush.
In Collaboration With
YOU'LL GET:
✓ The Slow Food philosophy, lived — farm visits with local beekeepers and goat cheese makers who have kept these traditions alive for generations.
✓ A private tour of The Wine Bank, a 19th-century cellar preserving 100,000 bottles of Italian wine, followed by a sommelier-led tasting.
✓ Chef-created dinners at your private villa, including a traditional Piedmontese feast prepared by local Italian “mamas” on your first night.
✓ Daily Awe Walks through UNESCO-protected vineyards, ancient chestnut forests, and medieval stone villages, guided by Super Age Founding Editor Heather Hurlock.
✓ A truffle hunt with a local expert hunter and his scent-trained dogs through the quiet forests of Monta.
✓ E-bike rides through rolling Roero hillsides past vineyards and medieval villages.
✓ A small community of women who showed up for the same reasons you did.
✓ Practices to bring home — a blueprint for finding pleasure, presence, and wonder in the ordinary.
OUR PROMISE
You’ll return not just rested, but genuinely nourished. Piedmont has always understood something longevity science is now confirming: that how we eat, move, and gather matters as much as what we consume. The Slow Food Movement didn’t start here because the food was exceptional, though it is. It started here because someone understood that eating slowly, together, with attention, is a radical act. You’ll leave with new friendships, new practices, and a renewed relationship with pleasure as something worth protecting.