About Us
We are all about exquisite food and wine travel.
It’s your occasion, your trip, we will bring the anticipation and excitement – creating theatre – that wow moment!
You are at the centre of everything we do. We listen, understand and build on your ideas. Don’t be afraid to ask – just ask.
If you are looking to arrange a trip away be it for a party of 2 or 200, please call.
We make amazing places come alive because of what you do when you get there. Go on…let us help you create great memories when you travel. Care to read our testimonials? Find out just how leaders in their fields feel about us.
With private and corporate clients in the US, UK, Australia and India, Tastes Travel provide exceptional experiences paired with great food and wine in Italy and further afield.
Testimonials
Depth and texture to the experience
I’ve taken William’s help on two trips to Italy over the last two years and though, in each case, the holiday has covered areas of exceptional beauty (Venice, Portofino, Tuscany, Florence etc.), he has found ways of adding depth and texture to the experience.
A warm and welcoming service
A warm and welcoming service with an outstanding setting, food and wine. People are relaxed and inspired to be creative.
Every travel detail has been considered
With Tastes of Italy every travel detail has been considered in advance. I’ve found no better way to an experience of luxury that remains in touch with the real Italy.
Our Team
William Goodacre
(MA HONS, WSET level 3)
Managing Director
Old Etonian and former alumni of Edinburgh and Bologna Universities, William Goodacre first earned his food and wine spurs in the early 90s riddling sparkling Ribolla in the Friuli for Manlio Collavini. Winning Cocktail Bartender of the Year 1992 he wooed life partner Victoria with the prize trip of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Cutting his teeth in travel he managed the UK’s nascent National Trust Travel Collection but despairing of the food and wine offerings, left to launch Tastes of Italy in 2000 promising to ‘Feast Your Senses’.
Brough Gurney-Randall
(WSET level 4)
A specialist importer of fine wines at OW Loeb for more than 20 years, Brough Gurney-Randall made a career hunting down wine producers and writing vintage reports from the world’s leading vineyards. He joined Tastes in 2017 to help others enjoy the great pleasure of fine wine at source; to meet people behind the label; to dine on their stories over great local cuisine. Holding stocks bought judiciously over the years, we can – if necessary – throw in bottles that are no longer readily available locally.