Trastevere Wine Tasting — Cellar Flights, Wine-Bar Pairings and Food Walks Compared

Fabullus: the guided wine tasting or the food tasting?

Cantina Fabullus sells two products from the same 1st-century cistern, and the names barely help. The guided wine tasting ($42, 4.6 from 34 reviews) is about the glass: four, five or six wines including prosecco, bread and taralli, 30 to 60 minutes, and the Deluxe option is where Barolo, Brunello and Amarone appear. The food tasting with wine pairing ($65, 4.8 from 100+ reviews) is about the table: prosecco plus two to four wines with cheeses, prosciutto, pistachio mortadella, buffalo mozzarella and Roman-style pizza, in about 75 minutes. Choose the first before dinner, the second instead of an early one. The food tasting is the top pick on our Rome wine tasting tours overview.

The wine-bar pairings: Cooking Italy and La Vineria

The Cooking Italy tasting with gelato ($36, 4.9 from 300+ reviews) is the cheapest and most-reviewed seated option in the neighbourhood, but it pours two wines against ten food products, so treat it as a pairing. For local wine, La Vineria di Trapizzino on Piazza Trilussa runs a sommelier-led tasting of four Lazio wines with a trapizzino and a supplì ($44); it has only 2 reviews so far, so its score is not yet a guide. Our ranking of the best wine tastings in Rome places both against the city-wide field, and the Italian wines to try guide explains Frascati and Cesanese before you go.

The food walks: which one pours the most

Four well-reviewed walks cover Trastevere, and all of them are dinner with wine rather than a tasting. The Cooking Italy luxury tour pours free-flowing wine across 20 tastings at 4 venues in 4 hours (4.9 from 1,700+ reviews). The Devour aperitivo and pasta walk counts six drinks — prosecco, a spritz and three regional wines — across 5 stops. The Carpe Diem small-group tour from Piazza Mastai (4.9 from 3,700+ reviews) offers wine, beer or alcohol-free drinks and vegetarian options at every stop, and the Gourmetaly 15-tasting walk adds Campo de’ Fiori and the Jewish Ghetto, with groups of 15 at most. Our evening wine tours guide covers the night versions.

Doing it yourself: Enoteca Ferrara and a glass by the river

You can also taste in Trastevere without booking anything. Enoteca Ferrara, by Piazza Trilussa and Via del Moro, pours glasses for roughly €5–12 at the time of writing, and an aperitivo glass with a plate runs roughly €7–14 — less than any guided flight. You lose the explanation and the structured comparison. Ask for a Frascati or a Cesanese if you want the wines of the region around Rome; our Rome wine tasting prices page compares the bar bill with a booked tasting, and the beginners’ guide covers how to taste on your own.

Timing an evening in Trastevere

Aperitivo hour in Rome runs roughly 18:00–21:00 and Romans sit down to dinner from about 20:00–20:30, so a 30-to-60-minute cellar flight at 18:00 leaves room for a proper meal. In December, when daylight ends around 17:00, the underground cellar is the better choice than any terrace: the winter guide picks the warmest rooms. Wine and cheese is a format of its own, mostly in Testaccio — see our wine and cheese tastings — and if you want the cellar to yourselves, start with private wine tastings in Rome.