A wine tasting holiday in Puglia,
a self guided experience to discover the finest wine while touring Lecce, Otranto, Ostuni, Gallipoli and the Itria Valley .

This wine tour is the best way to explore Apulian wine culture and heritage, at your own pace, following our direction and visiting selected boutique wineries discovering charming little villages and learning more about Puglian wine by getting close to the people that craft it.

This wine holiday in Puglia is a unique opportunity to get introduced to the world of wine, designed for travelers that wish to learn more about wine and Apulian wine production culture and tradition, more about the local food and italian language, in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. During this wine trip, you will be introduced to the local grape varieties, visiting small niche vineries in Salento and delighting the three senses, essential to experience wine: sight, smell and taste. You will learn how to taste Puglian wine and and fully understand the structure and nuances and how to pair wine with food. We will taste different wines from different local producers, from Primitivo to Negroamaro, Verdeca and Malvasia nera di Lecce, Montepulciano e Sangiovese, just to name few, meeting and talking to the people beyond finest wine of Puglia.

This wine holiday in Puglia is designed to be memorable, informative and fun. You will experience cooking demos of traditional local recipes, and learn how to get the perfect mach. This wine tasting holiday in Puglia and Salento suit all levels of knowledge, is aimed at the enthusiastic wine lovers and no previous wine knowledge is required.

Comparative blind tasting, convivial lunch and dinners, cooking demos, wine games and exercise are also available to groups of friends passionate about wine, or companies looking for team bulding opportunities, educating your perceptions and responses while having fun.

Every day you will start a new adventure, following a new itinerary especially designed for you, including dedicated tasting of wines and products locally produced. Comparative analyses of smells and tastes, blindfolded sampling under the guide of our sommelier will get you familiar with the local wine production, while a selection of Apulian local specialities will be served along at selected wineries. Daily field trips and visit to local wineries and producers will then conclude our day.

Deluxe Puglia for gourmet drive and stroll...

a custom designed gourmet tour of Puglia, including wine tastings and tour, cookery workshops and fresh making pasta class, visit to local producers, olive oil tastings, cultural tours and more...

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Guided wine tours of Puglia and Salento only available to pre-constituted groups

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Apulian Wine

Although the wine production have remained unknown for long time, Apulia has a proud wine-culture of the most ancient tradition that dates back to the ancient Greeks. Apulia's land since the time of the early colonizations have been a sanctuary for the vineyards and the olive groves. Apulia is the region where "spring was eternal" as Homer reported, with climate conditions that have favoured the abundance and the variety of fine wines.

Cultivation of vineyards probably started with the colonization by the Greeks in the 8th century B.C.. gaining a true moment of glory with the romans, until the eventual fall of the Roman Empire determined the inevitable decline of Apulia's wine-making.

Only with the 7th century we note a rebirth in wine-culture and the return of autoctonic vines. Puglia use to be granary of Italy and the wine cellar of Europe, with its huge bulk wine production, but with the re-cultivation that followed, the emphasis is now placed on quality rather than quantity, for long time used to reinforce weaker wines all over the country. Now few local producers turned from high volume production to quality wine by reducing the yields and increasing the density of plantations gaining a growing reputation to the local production.

The range of Apulian wines is dominated by the reds, from the Salice Salentino to the primitivo di Manduria, that matures precociously, and the Malvasia nera di Lecce, from which full bodied vintages are produced. Some interesting and elegant white wines are also produced around Locorotondo and all around the Salentina peninsula from Verdeca, Chardonnay and Fiano just to name few.