Puglia Wine & Food

Are you a Primitivo wine lover? Take part at our Primitivo tasting tour to enjoy an authentic experience in Puglia

Puglia is celebrated as an agricultural paradise which makes it fantastic for growing a variety of different grapes. The black skinned, high tannin Primitivo is a truly genuine expression of Puglia and not to be missed if spending time in the region. Visit with us 2 wineries in the DOC Primitivo di Manduria area and taste some of the top Primitivo wines of Puglia.

• Guided tour in a multi awarded winery;
• guided tour in the winery that produces high quality wines over 5 generations. During the tour inside the underground barrique cellar you will have the opportunity to taste of one Primitivo drawned directly from the barrique. The same type of wine will then be tasted bottled (Primitivo di Manduria DOP Riserva), all accompanied by a tasting of local cheese. At the end of the guided tour, tasting of Primitivo di Manduria DOCG Dolce Naturale accompanied by typical almond pastries.
• Following the tour, there will be a dinner at Masseria in an ancient oil mill, with the menu to be decided according to the guests preferences (wine excluded).
• Possibility of a private trasfer or a night stay in Masseria with breakfast.

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Did you know that the original Italian mozzarella (from cow’s milk) comes from Apulia? We offer you a unique opportunity to visit the family dairy farm that uses only the freshest milk and produces the highest quality dairy products. The processing of their milk and the formation of curds through the natural whey starter culture makes it possible to obtain a true product, rich in nutritional ingredients and with its own particular characteristics of flavour, softness and lightness.

You will assist in making the best mozzarella, scamorza, delicious caciocavallo (from herb-fed cows), cacioricotta, ricotta cheese and burrata with its creamy stracciatella filling. Stracciatella pugliese is perfect also on its own or can be a fresh ingredient for many other recipes.

• Guided tour of typical Apulian dairy farm;
• The Mozzarella Show: there are different types of mozzarella, you will see how the paste is tied into balls, plaits (trecce) or knots (nodini);
• tasting fresh mozzarella and other delicious local fresh and aged cheese and local wine;
• Possibility to try to make Apulian mozzarella and burrata with a master cheesemaker.

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Puglia has more olive trees and produces more olive oil than any place in Italy. Its ancient landscape is carpeted by 66 million olive trees and many of these are centuries old, some even thousands of years old.The extra virgin olive oil produced is of outstanding quality and this tour aims to give you an insight into the secrets of its production.

• a walk amongst the olive groves with some millenary plants and a visit of the ancient undeground olive oil mill;
• the guided tour of the family run farmhouse – masseria that produces high quality extravirgin olive oil as an old family tradition since the 16th century and the youngest of the generation Alessandro – the olive oil sommelier – will introduce you to the secrets of real quality extra virgin olive oil by tasting and sensorial evaluation. The farm produce also their own natural olive oil cosmetics made with their D.O.P. extra virgin olive oil.
• You will discover both the ancient olive oil production processes used by farmers until 1990 and the contemporary techniques adopted in the modern olive oil mill.

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