Weekend Tasting Escapes
16 two-night food weekends built around a harvest, a forage or a catch.
16 of 16 trails
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Seascapes & Skies: Kerry Weekend
Seafood suppers, then a guided night in Ireland's Gold Tier Dark Sky Reserve.
2 nights, 3 days · Cahersiveen · September to March (darkest skies)
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Wild Atlantic Coastal Foraging
Seaweed and shellfish forage on the Atlantic shore, a trad music night and an Achill cliff walk.
2 nights, 3 days · Westport · May to September
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A Berrylicious Weekend
Two picking mornings, a jam-and-baking workshop and a country-house stay.
2 nights, 3 days · Co Wicklow · June to August
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Puglia Olive Harvest Weekend
Two harvest mornings, your own oil from the frantoio, Ostuni and the Adriatic coast.
2 nights, 3 days · Ostuni · Late October to December
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Alentejo Stars & Olive Oil
The olive harvest by day, the Alqueva Dark Sky Reserve by night.
2 nights, 3 days · Monsaraz · October to November
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Surf & Turf Portugal
Surf lessons in the morning, vineyard evenings and a farm stay.
2 nights, 3 days · Porto · May to October
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Garden of England Weekend
Pick-your-own fruit, an English vineyard tasting, Whitstable oysters and an oast-house stay.
2 nights, 3 days · Faversham · June to September
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Chios Mastic Villages
Walk the mastic fields at harvest and see the resin 'tears' that grow on one island only.
2 nights, 3 days · Chios Town · June to September; harvest mid-August, often a second in September
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Messinia Olive Harvest
Harvest Kalamata's olives, follow them to the mill and learn to taste oil with a certified taster.
2 nights, 3 days · Kalamata · November to December
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Istrian Truffle Weekend
Follow a truffle family and their dogs into the forest below Motovun.
2 nights, 3 days · Motovun · White truffles autumn into winter; black truffles in summer
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Hardanger Fruit & Cider Weekend
Walk farm to farm through fjord-side orchards, tasting each maker's cider.
2 nights, 3 days · Ulvik · May (blossom) to October (harvest)
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Lofoten Skrei & Stockfish
See cod drying on the racks, try fishing for your own skrei, and eat fried cod tongues.
2 nights, 3 days · Svolvær · January to April
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Niagara Icewine Weekend
Taste icewine outdoors among the frozen vines.
2 nights, 3 days · Niagara-on-the-Lake · Niagara Icewine Festival, mid to late January
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PEI Oyster Weekend
Tong your own oysters from a dory, then shuck and eat up to two dozen.
2 nights, 3 days · Charlottetown · Summer and autumn; confirm dates with the host
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Adirondack Maple Weekend
Collect sap and watch it boil down in a working sugarhouse.
2 nights, 3 days · Saranac Lake · Two weekends in late March (New York Maple Weekend)
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Finger Lakes Riesling & Gorges
Walk the gorge in the morning and taste Riesling by Seneca Lake in the afternoon.
2 nights, 3 days · Watkins Glen · September to October (harvest)
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