Frascati Pasta Class & Wine

If you want to cook as well as taste on a day out from Rome, book the Pasta Masterclass & Wine Tour in the Vineyard in Frascati. It costs from $100 per person, takes about 4 hours from Frascati station, caps the group at 15 and holds 4.9 from 183 GetYourGuide reviews (prices checked October 2026). You make three kinds of pasta with the farmhouse chef, taste the family’s wines and olive oil, walk the vineyards and eat your own pasta at lunch. The train from Roma Termini costs €2.10 each way and is not included.

Frascati is 30 to 31 minutes from Termini on a non-stop regional train, so the class fits into a morning and early afternoon. The other cooking on this site happens on Tuscany coach days of 11 to 12 hours, where you watch a pasta demonstration at the winery.

Quick picks

• To cook: the $100 pasta masterclass, three pastas, a tasting, a vineyard walk and lunch in about 4 hours.
• Same hosts, no class: the Half-Day Frascati Wine Tour with Farmhouse Lunch, from $100, a guided town walk, three wines and a chef’s lunch, 4.9 from 524 reviews.
• Shorter and cheaper: the Wine Tour & Farmhouse Lunch in the Vineyard, from $83 for 3 hours at the same farmhouse.
• Train ticket in the price: the Frascati Wine Road from Rome: Tasting & Lunch, from $119, with a town food walk and a trattoria lunch.

How the class runs

A member of the team meets you outside Frascati station and drives you about 5 minutes to the family farmhouse, which the family runs as a small wine museum among its vineyards and olive groves. You put on an apron and the chef walks you through three traditional local pastas made from scratch: ravioli stuffed with local ingredients, fettuccine and maltagliati. The chef shares the recipe and tips the listing says came from his grandmother.

The tasting follows the class. You try the family’s Frascati Superiore DOCG whites and Vagnolo, an IGP red made entirely from Cesanese, with their extra virgin olive oil, cheese and wine jam. A licensed wine taster then takes you through the old vineyards and the cellar and explains the farming methods the family still uses.

Lunch is the last stop. The chef serves a large appetizer of seasonal local food, then the three pastas you made, with Frascati wine and water. Afterwards the hosts drive you to the center of Frascati, where you have time to look around before the train back. The listing says trains to Rome leave about once an hour; on Sundays they run about every two hours, so check the return time before you set out.

What you drink, and why Frascati

Frascati is a white wine made mainly from Malvasia, which has to make up at least 70% of the blend. Frascati Superiore became a DOCG in 2011, the same year as Cannellino di Frascati, the sweet style. At lunch you drink Superiore from the hills around you: the vineyards lie on the northern slopes of the Colli Albani in volcanic soil, and wine has been made here since the days of ancient Tusculum.

Getting there

On weekdays the hosts suggest the 9:49 from Termini, and on Sundays the 9:54. Validate a paper ticket in the machines at Termini before you board; an app ticket needs no validation. Saturdays work differently: the hosts ask you to take the 10:14 to the second Frascati station, Tor Vergata (its departure board shows Cassino or Frosinone), where the hosts quote €1.50 for the ticket, then cross the platforms through the glass tunnel to meet them. The return train on Saturdays still leaves from Frascati station. If you would rather come by car or taxi, email the hosts after booking and they will send the farmhouse address. Our Rome to Frascati train guide covers tickets and timetables in detail.

Food needs

The chef’s lunch can be vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free friendly if you say so when you book. The listing does not describe a separate kitchen, so if you have celiac disease or a severe allergy, message the hosts before you pay.

If you would prefer not to cook

The same family runs two tours without a class. The farmhouse half day swaps the class for a guided walk through Frascati with a glass and a snack, and the $83 farmhouse lunch starts at noon at the farmhouse and lasts 3 hours. For a winery with Roman-era caves and lunch at an osteria in town, look at the Your Local X Frascati tour (from $122, up to 11 people) or the Old Frascati half day (from $106). The Old Frascati Food & Wine half day lists no pasta class.

If you have a whole day and want Tuscany, the Montepulciano and Pienza day with lunch and wines includes a fresh pasta demonstration at the winery, and the Pienza and Civita di Bagnoregio day includes a handmade pici demonstration. You watch on both. Our Tuscany wine tours page compares those long days.

Before you book

• Price: $100 per person plus €4.20 for the return train, or a little less on a Saturday via Tor Vergata.
• Group: up to 15 people, led by an English-speaking guide.
• Timing: about 4 hours from the station, so you are back in Rome in the afternoon.
• Cancellation: free up to 24 hours before the start.
• Driving: Italy’s limit is 0.5 g/l, and zero for drivers under 21 or in their first three years. Lunch comes with wine, so take the train.

Where to go next

Read our breakdown of the pasta masterclass, compare every format on the Frascati wine tours page, or see the half-day wine tours from Rome with hotel pickup. When you have picked a date, check availability.