Dine privately with chef Ana Roš at her celebrated restaurant, Hiša Franko, and experience elevated traditional Slovenian cuisine at its most refined. Also eat at Hiša Polonka, the tavern opened by Roš’s sommelier husband, Valter Kramar, serving local cuisine and old family recipes.

Stop for wine tastings on both the Slovenian and Italian sides of Goriška Brda (or Collio) at a few celebrated private organic and biodynamic vineyards—including Edi Simčič, Dario Prinčič and Movia estates—where the winemakers serve up their local produce.

Explore the region of Goriška Brda—a land of castles, vineyards and small white churches, often situated on the top of hills overlooking the villages.

Start your day with forger Miha in the Soča Valley, near Hiša Franko. Before snow covers the Slovenian Alps, the valley’s trees and bushes provide walnuts, beechnuts, blackberries, argousier, elderberries, and rosehip. Autumn is also famous for mushrooms.

Accompany Valter Kramar to a village called Čadrg for a traditional shepherd’s lunch at a local farm, under the magnificent Julian Alps’ Mt. Krn. Continue to an organic cheese farm to learn about traditional Tolmin cheese making from raw cow’s milk.