Isarco Valley's Gourmet Route

A Gourmet Journey through Kitchen, Cellar and Local Culture

The latest edition of the “Isarco Valley’s Gourmet Route”, the Guide to the best inns and wine of the area, gives details of selected restaurants and hotels, cultural information and culinary events between Gossensass and Klausen.

Twenty two Isarco Valley restaurants along the Gourmet Route devote themselves to producing regional specialities from the kitchen and cellar, including well stocked wine cellars with a good selection of Isarco Valley wines and produce from the local countryside. Just as the menus are varied, so too is the cultural landscape along the Colours and Flavours route: medieval towns like Sterzing, Brixen and Klausen, picturesque villages, ancient mines, monasteries, fortresses and castles which bear witness to a time long since gone, and the charming landscape of the low mountain range dotted with chestnut groves and vineyards.

Between spring and autumn one culinary treat follows another:  the Isarco Valley Fine Cuisine starts things off in March. In May Brixen revolves around Wine. Street kitchens with their distinctive atmosphere typify summer evenings in the Isarco Valley. The Joghurt Days in July and the Dumpling Days in September turn Sterzing into a Mecca for gourmets. October is full of delicious experiences with the bread and strudel market in Brixen waking up the taste buds. If you’re looking for the high spots then the Speck Feast in Villnöss, with its speciality ham and bacon, and the “Sunnseitn Apple Week” in Natz-Schabs are what you want. During the hiking season in late autumn Brixen’s “Kuchlkirchtig” (a gastronomic hike) takes place. The end of October and beginning of November is taken up with the chestnut during the Chestnut Speciality Weeks and the “Keschtnigl” in Feldthurns.

The grand finale is the Törggelen when, from October to the middle of November the vintners cottages open up their doors for tastings of the new wine.  

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