Wine & Gastronomy

For food and wine lovers. Four days through the Areni valley and the Armenian table, where winemaking began 6,100 years ago.

Duration4 days / 3 nightsBest seasonSep–Oct (harvest) & May–Junfrom€480 / person

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Trip highlights

★ Areni-1, oldest winery on earth
★ Areni & Vayots Dzor wineries
★ Ararat brandy tasting
★ Lavash & gata masterclass

Why you'll love this tour

Armenia is where wine was invented — archaeologists found a complete 6,100-year-old winery in a cave above the Areni valley — and yet almost nobody knows its wines. Four days to drink at the source, before the rest of the world catches on.

This isn't restaurant tourism: you bake lavash with your own hands, eat at a family table, and taste with the winemakers themselves. You'll come home with recipes, bottles and stories.

Moments that will stay with you

🍇 The world's oldest winery

In the Areni-1 cave you stand next to clay vats where humans made wine 6,100 years ago — millennia before Bordeaux existed.

🫓 Lavash from the tonir

You slap the dough against the walls of a buried clay oven yourself — UNESCO-listed bread, eaten warm seconds later.

🥃 The brandy Churchill loved

In the Ararat cellars you'll hear how Stalin kept Churchill supplied — and taste why he insisted.

🏡 A table you'll never forget

Lunch in a family home: dolma, gata, homemade wine, and toasts that turn strangers into friends.

Day-by-day itinerary

1
Day 1 · Yerevan & Ararat Brandy
A food-focused city tour and the Ararat brandy factory, dinner paired with Armenian wines.
2
Day 2 · Areni-1 & the wineries
Khor Virap, the Areni-1 cave (oldest winery on earth), Areni and Vayots Dzor tastings, Noravank.
3
Day 3 · Garni, Geghard & a masterclass
Garni and Geghard, a lavash and gata baking masterclass and a home-hosted lunch.
4
Day 4 · Vernissage & Departure
The Vernissage food and craft market, then airport transfer.