Private Insider Wine & Gastronomy Experiences
Hosted by Chef Marcus & Jamie Guiliano
Campania Wine & Gastronomy Experience · April 3–11, 2027
Private custom travel also available for groups, families, and culinary clubs.
Travel through Campania with the people who have spent a decade building friendships across Irpinia, Cilento, the Amalfi Coast, and Ischia. This is southern Italy through the eyes of locals, winemakers, chefs, and friends — not a guidebook.
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Most travelers know Naples. Many dream of the Amalfi Coast. Some have heard of Capri. Very few truly know Campania — and that’s exactly why Marcus and Jamie love it.
This is not a tour. This is access. While other groups stand at tasting bars, you’ll sit with winery owners. While tour buses stop at commercial attractions, you’ll visit family wineries that don’t even have tasting rooms. While most travelers follow guidebooks, you’ll follow relationships built over twenty years in the wine business.
Over nine unhurried days, you’ll move from the volcanic hills of Irpinia to the dramatic cliffs of the Amalfi Coast, through the hidden villages of Cilento, across the Bay of Naples to Ischia, and back through Caserta and Naples. Ancient vineyards, boutique hotels, island culture, world-class wines, and some of the greatest food traditions in Italy — all of it carried by the people who live them every day.
Hosted Departure
April 3–11, 2027 — nine days, Naples to Naples, Marcus and Jamie traveling alongside the group from arrival to farewell.
Small group experience
Only 8–14 guests are invited into this hosted Campania experience. The size is intentional — it protects the intimacy, the access, and the seat at the family table that define VIP Winery Vacations.
Prefer private travel?
Many guests choose to travel privately with family, friends, corporate groups, or wine clubs. Ask about custom FIT (Free Independent Travel) programs designed around your schedule, your pace, and the producers and properties that matter most to you.
Schedule a discovery call with Marcus and Jamie to discuss availability.
Just relationships built over twenty years in the wine business — and the friendships that make every door in Campania open a little wider.
Campania doesn’t reveal itself in a single afternoon. It reveals itself in the second glass of Fiano, in the long lunch that turns into dinner, in the winemaker who insists you stay for one more bottle, in the drive home with the windows down and the sea on your right. The pace of this trip is the point. Nine days is the minimum to do Campania the way locals do it — slowly, generously, and on someone else’s clock.
Group arrival at Naples International Airport. Private transfer east into Irpinia wine country, settling into Radici Resort among vineyards and olive groves. Welcome dinner with Marcus and Jamie — the first night is always about meeting the people you’ll spend the week with.
A full day in the vineyards and cellars of Donnachiara, hosted by Ilaria Petitto. Walking the rows of Fiano, Greco, and Aglianico, then a long tasting that turns into lunch. This is the day guests realize they’re traveling with friends.
Morning at Mastroberardino — the house that has been preserving Campania’s native grapes since 1878. Afternoon at Terre Irpine, the kind of small, unpolished producer Marcus and Jamie seek out everywhere. Two ends of the Irpinia story in a single day.
A quiet morning with Raffaele Inglese at Antico Borgo — 30,000 bottles a year, native grapes, traditional methods. Then we point the cars south, leaving Irpinia behind for the hidden coast of Cilento. Check-in to our Cilento property in time for a long, slow dinner.
Morning at Agricola Casearia Lupara — 3,000 water buffalo, mozzarella still warm from production, ricotta, and buffalo milk specialties tasted at the source. Afternoon with Luigi Maffini, one of Campania’s most respected producers, where precision and terroir share the same glass.
Up into the hills above the Amalfi Coast to Tenuta San Francesco, home to some of the world’s oldest ungrafted grapevines. Then on to Cantine Marisa Cuomo — cellars carved into the cliff, vineyards clinging to the rock, the Mediterranean below. We end the day at Hotel Luna Convento, a former 13th-century monastery on the Amalfi cliffs.
A late morning on the Amalfi Coast — lemon groves, espresso on a stone terrace, the kind of unhurried morning the Amalfi Coast is actually for. Afternoon drive to Sorrento and Boutique Hotel Helios, with sunset over the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius on the horizon.
Morning at the Royal Palace of Caserta — one of Europe’s most magnificent palaces, and a piece of southern Italian history most travelers miss. Then ferry across the Bay of Naples to Ischia, the volcanic island many Italians prefer to Capri. Afternoon and dinner with Cenatiempo Vini d’Ischia — Biancolella, Forastera, and the sea.
Ferry back to Naples for departure. A final espresso, last hugs with the people you’ve spent the week with, and the quiet realization that the friendships built this week will outlast the trip itself.
Expect Southern Italian wines shaped by volcanoes, sea, and centuries of farming. Fiano di Avellino, Greco di Tufo, Taurasi, Aglianico, Falanghina, Coda di Volpe, Piedirosso, Pallagrello Bianco, Pallagrello Nero, Casavecchia, and the Vesuvian Lacryma Christi. A masterclass in volcanic Southern Italian flavor.
Absolutely not — curiosity matters far more than expertise.
Naples International Airport (NAP).
Moderate walking on vineyard rows, village streets, and cliffside paths. The pace is designed for comfort and enjoyment.
Yes — private transportation throughout the experience is included.
Relationships. Most of these experiences exist because of friendships built over twenty years in the wine business, not because of a booking platform.
Yes — custom FIT (Free Independent Travel) experiences are available for couples, families, wine clubs, and private groups.
Only 8–14 guests are invited into the hosted Campania departure on April 3–11, 2027. The size is intentional — it’s what makes the family table, the cliffside cellar, and the unhurried lunch possible. Many of these experiences simply cannot be replicated at a larger scale.
If Campania is the trip you’ve been waiting for, the next step is a conversation — not a checkout page.
Schedule a discovery call with Marcus and Jamie Guiliano.
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