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

  • It was a brilliant experience to join the Burrata cheese making workshop. Marco showed us around their farm and explain how they take care of animals there. It was one of my dream to learn burrata making but we could not book earlier because of many other appointments but he accepted us even one day before the workshop. The cheese tasted really good with wine and assorted salami! Thank you!

    Yuko Amami Avatar Yuko Amami
    March 4, 2024

    We had a wonderful experience at Madonna Dell'Arco with Marco. He was very informative and extremely professional. I would highly recommend experiencing one of his tours. My four children, husband, and I did the cheese demonstration, pasta making, and lunch. We all enjoyed ourselves. It was one of the highlights of our trip to Puglia.

    Elizabeth DeRose Avatar Elizabeth DeRose
    January 4, 2023

    Our cheese making tour with Marco was a wonderful experience ! We learned the full process of mozzarella and burrata making on a typical masseira with very kind cheese makers. We made our own cheese and then tasted it with a variety of other cheese and food. Grazie Marco!

    Alexandra Potvin-Desrochers Avatar Alexandra Potvin-Desrochers
    November 5, 2024
  • We hosted three different private chefs at our villa during our Puglia stay and Terra Che Vive (represented by Chef Mattia) was absolutely the best. We particularly loved his focaccia, layered mushroom lasagna with stracciatella and apulian cheesecake. Mattia was also incredibly professional and attentive, ensuring we had the right wines and our glasses were full. Highly recommend!

    Jenna Zarum Avatar Jenna Zarum
    July 5, 2022

    We had a great experience with Marco and Lorenzo. They were very nice, flexible and knowledgable about the whole process of making burrata, mozzarella etc. It was really fun and added a sense of adventure to our trip!

    Mariana & Jonathan Avatar Mariana &
    September 22, 2022

    We had a fantastic time learning to make orecchiette. Gaetano was also a brilliant host and shared his love of food and wine with us. And his olive oil was amazing too. Highly recommend this experience.

    Nicky Ward Avatar Nicky Ward
    June 30, 2023
  • Located within the walls of a traditional Trulli home, we enjoyed the wine tasting which was accompanied by several local cheeses, various sausages and homemade preserves presented by the owner couple. The tour included a look at the wine making premises and operations and a very informative presentation of the area wines by the proprietor, Marcus, himself. Highly recommend this opportunity!

    Dale Weaver Avatar Dale Weaver
    June 30, 2023

    We had a great vineyard tour and wine tasting experience with Marco! He explained their wine making process and then we had a tasting with some delicious local appetizers. He also was very knowledgeable and welcoming.

    Melissa Menard Avatar Melissa Menard
    June 30, 2023

    Great host. Very patient and the tour was nice for us to start our holiday in Puglia. We understood a little more about the region and its historic context. The pasta making and cheese making chefs were very polite and good. The only drawback was that as we were non meat and alcohol drinkers. The substitute items were perhaps not as good. We could've done with some good veggie options at the end to sample.

    syed hussain Avatar syed hussain
    July 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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