Don’t stop at a taste of Puglia, feel all the flavour and leave with the savour of the best things between cooking classes, wine & olive encounters, orecchiette tasting and unrepeatable street food tours.
Delicious local cuisine is one of the essential elements of a memorable trip. Puglia is the best destination for local and genuine food lovers. Our chefs will be happy to teach you how to make a tasty focaccia or perfect orecchiette in our Masseria or in the nearby villages of Conversano, Monopoli and Savelletri.
Life in Puglia follows the rhythm of the agriculture and this land is known also as the realm of extra-virgin olive oil. Discover the 120 trees of Il Melograno with the itinerary designed by our Marina, Agro-expert and Biologist passionate.
A stroll through the heart of Polignano, discovering the Apulian cuisine and quality workshops, along with Food Educator and Taster Flavia. A true wandering ‘masterclass’ to explore local products with views, tastings, and a stop at the market. Approximately 3-hour walking tour, in English.
An enogastronomic itinerary discovering the Cantina in Alberobello, only 20 minutes drive away from our locations. A 50 minutes tour in the cellars with a tasting of 3 labels of wine, with focaccia or crunchy frisella and cold cut salami and cheese table.
Let’s start your Eno gastronomic itinerary discovering the Primitivo, a wine of ancient origin. An intensely, fragrant and full-bodied red wine paired with dishes of character, widespread in the area of Manduria and Gioia del Colle.
In the countryside of Putignano, a few kilometers away from Talea Collection properties, you will be able to experience an energetic journey through the intense aromas of Puglia. The tour will end with a taste of our 4 wine labels and and apulian aperitif with local products.
This experience in this Tenuta in Polignano is unmissable. A walk through the vineyards, discovering the estate and its history, culminating in a tasting of 5 wines, paired with and aperitif with specialities from Puglia.
Spend some of your time exploring these enchanting olive oil farms dotted all around Puglia countryside. From olive harvest to the production in the modern mill, till the visit to the beautiful ancient olive oil underground mill, you will enjoy always a special olive oil tasting journey according to your time. You can even attend a course of Saponification so to know how to make cosmetics by olive oil.
During your itinerary heading to Matera don’t miss this stop for a Wine tasting at one of the most famous apulian cellars, producing organic wines.
The experience in a vineyard is a special chance to have lunch or dinner surrounded by a unique microclimate, enjoying the retro allure created by d’antan design pieces of this Masseria near Fasano. It’s possible to taste the seasonal goodies and the Susumaniello red wine. Choose between the “Aperitivo” or “Lunch in the Vineyard” experiences.
Wine Tasting in one of the most famous Apulian cellars for wine production of varieties like Aglianico, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Fiano di Puglia, Moscato Reale e Nero di Troia. You can choose among several activities with tours and tastings.
After a welcome drink and a quick tour of the farm, surrounded by century old olive trees, you will start the lesson and you will learn recipes according to the techniques of the past and appreciate the authentic aromas, flavours and wholeness of the local tradition.
Puglia is a destination for all those people with a passion for simple delicious flavours and an interest in the provenance of food. The land is rich and bountiful, the 500 miles of coast offer a profuse fresh catch, and we pride ourselves in “zero miles” ingredients.
Start your tour with the Renault Twizy electric cars to explore the Regional Natural Park Dune Costiere. Leaving the White Ostuni panorama on your back, you will head towards “Piana degli ulivi millenari”. End the experience with a visit of a Masseria and a blind tasting of three BIO-EVO olive oils on crunchy friselline.
Tour in the old town, with tasting stops at a Panificio, to learn how focaccia barese is made; at a Salumeria, to find out the different kinds of cheeses & salami while drinking a glass of wine; at a typical corners in Bari Vecchia, to discover fried street food “sgagliozze” and “panzerotti”; last stop at a Gelateria, to enjoy the home-made ice cream.
Meeting point in Piazza del Ferrarese in Bari for the tour in the old town and stop at Signora Maria’s House, to learn how to make orecchiette, the local home-made pasta, and find out the secrets of its traditional recipe. Drinking genuine Primitivo red wine we will cook and taste our own home-made pasta feeling like a native.
Visit of Ostuni, one of the most typical example of Apulian town architecture. It is even possible to plan a visit to one of the most renown masserie of the area because of its olive oil production, with a blind tasting of biological olive oil on dried and crunchy friselle.
Lecce, the capital of baroque style, is also called “Florence of Southern Italy” thanks to the beauty and richness of its buildings and churches. The tour goes on in the heart of the town discovering the gastronomic tradition through itinerant tastings of traditional bakery, apulian wines, artisanal patisserie, to taste pasticciotto, a historic bar, to sip the can’t-miss caffè leccese.
The first settlements of Masseria Spina are among the most important examples of rupestrian civilization, developed between roughly the ninth and twelfth centuries in Puglia. The tour will take you on a journey through 1000 years of history while discovering cave dwellings, necropolis and a small church dating back to the 11th century.
Departure for Noci to spend the saturday morning experiencing the culinary tradition of Puglia. You will visit a family run farm which have been specialised in the growing of the wheat for centuries and where the secret of the preparation of bread and pasta his handed down from father to son. The tour starts with the visit of the mill, where the miller shows the secrets of wheat and pasta.