Authentic Food & Wine Tours, Cooking Classes in Puglia with locals

Are you planning to visit Puglia? Terrachevive.com will show you how to spend your time enjoying the best food and wine tours, cooking classes of Apulian recipes. Experience Apulia in the most authentic way with locals.
We’ll show you the most tasty side of our region, bringing you to the places where typical products are made.
Choosing our cooking classes, you will cook with your hands and learn processes and secrets of many traditional recipes. With the help of experienced cooks, in suggestive and characteristic locations, you will taste local dishes as soon as they are made.
Come here and enjoy Apulia in the most authentic way with us. Nature, culture and excellent food are waiting for you!

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We live our territory daily, so we know it very well, in all its most authentic side, and all we want is to share it with you.

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Food & wine tours, cooking classes in Puglia: authentic experiences with locals

Puglia offers a huge selection of food and wine experiences to be lived in Salento, Valle d’Itria and Gargano areas. A large territory with many typical and high quality culinary specialties.
Choose the food and wine experience that best reflects your tastes or ask for advice on which could best suit your needs.
As people born and raised in Puglia, we will give you the proper information. Choose what you’d like to do, we’ll take care of the rest!

Bread

Cheese factories

Olive oil mills

Wineries

Cooking classes

Homemade pasta

Italian pizza

Mozzarella & burrata

OUR GUESTS’ WORDS

  • Our family of six enjoyed the Farm house tour tremendously. Our kids range from ages 9-16 and they all enjoyed watching the cheese being made and seeing all the farm animals. The lunch afterward was delicious and there was so much food! We enjoyed learning about how the masseria worked from so long ago. Marco was very responsive and did a great job. Thank you Terra Che Vive!

    Anna Bangert Avatar Anna Bangert
    June 23, 2023

    My husband and I just got back from a 3+ week trip to Italy, starting in Tuscany and ending in Puglia. During that time we saw amazing sites and had many, many unforgettable experiences but few, if any, will be as memorable as the time we spent with Marco and Umberto at a dairy farm outside Martina Franca where we learned about and participated in the mozzarella and burrata cheese-making process. Marco, the owner of Terra Che Vive but also our guide during this experience, could not have been more knowledgeable or enthusiastic, and Umberto, the master cheese-maker, could not have been more welcoming. The whole adventure, including the cheese "tasting" (WAY more than a tasting) of the cheeses we helped make, along with meats and wine, was unequivocally great. When in Puglia, do this!

    Carol Swetow Avatar Carol Swetow
    October 28, 2023

    Anbefales på det varmeste! Unik opplevelse på en liten gård i nærheten av Locorotondo. Vi lærte å lage pasta (orrechiette, strascinate og cavatelli) av nonna Fransesca. Marco forklarte underveis og supplerte med mye kunnskap om pastalaging, om Puglia generelt, etc. Avsluttet med et deilig måltid med både egenlaget pasta og lokale spesialiteter. Både vi foreldre og de tre tenåringene storkoste seg.

    Hilde Bjørnstad Avatar Hilde Bjørnstad
    July 26, 2022
  • Really enjoyed this tour of this historical olive grove. Lovely informative guide who is family member of the owners. It will definitely be worth visiting when they have completed the museum which is currently being developed. Brought home delicious olive oil!!

    Jenny Banks Avatar Jenny Banks
    July 21, 2024

    We had a blast taking the mozzarella cheese making class. Marco helped with all the translations. This is a great activity for kids as well as adults. We loved being about to tour the farm and buy other products. It was awesome tasting the cheese during the whole process. We learned so much about the cheese making process and fun to just do something different.

    Gretchen Drybola Avatar Gretchen Drybola
    April 2, 2022

    Excellent tour! we learned a lot and the tasting was a great experience.

    Karin Stein Avatar Karin Stein
    August 2, 2023
  • We had to pleasure of planning 3 experiences with Terra Che Vive. Marco was extrtemely helpful with our planning. The cooking class in Locorotondo was beautiful! The women who hosted were so lovely and kind and the demonstration was perfect! But even better was the food!! We also toured an olive oil farm with tasting included. The tour and olive oil tasting was exceptional! Lastly, we went to a winery which has been run by a family for generations. The wine and food was lovely and the setting was beautiful! Thank you Marco for the opportunity to share in the beautiful culture of Puglia!

    Rose Gargiulo Avatar Rose Gargiulo
    October 6, 2024

    Our Olive Oil Tour & Tasting at Savoia was absolutely amazing. We were the only ones there so we ended up with a private tour and our Guide was absolutely incredible! It felt really personal and we learned so much. The olive oils we tasted were phenomenal. Overall 10/10 :)

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    Deanna Tolley Avatar Deanna Tolley
    November 20, 2023

    Great experience with my family. Marco and “nonna” couldn’t have been more welcoming and fun to be around. Learning how to make handmade pastas and gaining understanding about the local cuisine and culture made for such a fun day. Thank you!

    David Friedman Avatar David Friedman
    September 25, 2022

Our guest's words

  • A wonderful morning at the farm, enjoyed seeing the animals, the cheese making, and the tasting session – no need for lunch that day ! Marco was a great guide, very informative, will recommend our family to return.

    Steven H.
    UK
  • It was a great way to understand how wine is made and to taste it! Marco was even fluent in German!
    Many thanks for the great experience!

    Laura A.
    Germany
  • A spectacular morning in Puglia! Making cheese in the dairy, preparing pasta and bread with Grandma in the kitchen, touring the farm, and then a veritable feast for lunch. A must do experience!

    Laura and Rory
    USA
  • Best thing I have ever done on vacation! Interesting, educational, exciting, fun! And so good tasting…You were all so friendly and welcoming.

    Annbritt
  • Everything was wonderful from the moment I contacted Marco until we left the shop. This was a fantastic experience and great beginning to our trip!

    Christina C.
  • An amazing experience on a great location. The host was superb, the visit interesting and cool and the tasting…out of this world! Great way to spend some hours in our Puglia vacation.

    Valeer V.
    Belgium
  • We loved every minute of this experience. Tour was very interesting, even kids enjoyed it. Food was super abundant, fresh and tasteful. Highly recommend.

    Annice M.
    UK
  • We thoroughly enjoyed our visit! The guide was excellent ! We were surprised and appreciative of the olive oil samples we received. This experience was the highlight of our day!

    Diane H.
    Canada
  • The tour was very infomative and Rosaria and her husband were great hosts. We could tell how passionate both are about the masseria and the production of their olive oil. I would definitely recommed the tour. It was a very lovely experience.

    Sabine T.
    Germany
  • We had the most amazing day. Everyone who we met was incredibly nice and welcoming. They gave us a really great tour of the farm and not only that but the mozzarella is delicious! Would highly recommend and thank you so much!

    Olivia S.
    New Zeland
  • Marco and his team were fantastic, my family is friends switzerland and australia and the Italian pasta making experience was wonderful. Nonna was amazing and the food was delicious. Highly recommend if you want an authentic experience.

    Kristel
    Australia

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