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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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

  • Wonderful experience learning how to make cheese! It was fun for both kids and adults and one of the true highlights of our trip to Puglia. I could not recommend this activity higher.

    Naomi Edelson Avatar Naomi Edelson
    July 26, 2022

    We had an incredible time with Marco and Umberto. Our daughter (3.5) talks about it constantly. They were both so wonderful with her, and she (and we!) learned so much. Highly recommend this experience.

    Rebecca VanZandt Avatar Rebecca VanZandt
    July 25, 2022

    My wife and I had an amazing time during the tour, cheese-making, and cheese-eating. Marco was an amazing guide, as he walked us through the history of the location, the cheese-making processes, and answered any questions we had. Our time cheese-making with Umberto was easy and fun! We enjoyed the private nature of the tour, and ended our time with a private meal, both with the cheeses we made, and cured meats (and of course some wine). I highly recommend this tour. The entire experience is very much worth the cost.

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    Adam Pietrantonio Avatar Adam Pietrantonio
    October 10, 2023
  • Tasting and tour was great! Staff were all so nice!

    Ariel Zhang Avatar Ariel Zhang
    October 4, 2024


    Visita guidata (da Marco) presso Masseria Madonna dell Arco, che ci ha trasmesso informazione di questa masseria, particolarmente sul processo produttivo del caseificio, con degustazione di formaggi. Alla fine abbiamo anche assaggiato l’antipasto con i prodotti della masseria. Consigliato!

    Luciane Mendes Avatar Luciane Mendes
    September 5, 2021

    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
  • Esperienza meravigliosa all'interno di una Masseria zona Martina Franca. Ho richiesto disponibilità per fare un corso di pasta fresca e Marco ci ha trovato la soluzione perfetta! Con poco preavviso ha organizzato il corso e la visita guidata organizzata esclusivamente per me e mio marito con pranzo finale. Abbiamo scoperto tante cose interessanti e trascorso due ore davvero piacevoli. Super consigliato, il prezzo è più che corretto per l'esperienza fatta. Grazie mille ancora

    Manuela Salierno Avatar Manuela Salierno
    December 28, 2022

    Truly a wonderful experience and Highly recommended! A very interesting and informative tour in a beautiful Masseria. We enjoyed the process of cheese making and tasted minutes made mozzarella. It was delicious. After the cheese tour we visited the farm, many cows and cute calves amongst other animals. We were also informed about the area, the Itria valley, Trulli and more. Marco is a super guide, very friendly and welcoming. He speaks very good english and we had a wonderful conversation about our country and food in general. The place where the farm is situated is so peaceful with wonderful views of the countryside. After the tour we enjoyed a tasting which included local capocollo, salami, bread, caciocavallo, fresh cheese (divine), mozzarella etc all fresh and produced in-house. To accompany our meal we were given a large bottle of wine from the Itria Valley and a bottle of water, followed by dessert and coffee. Worth every penny :) Well done to all and keep it up! thanks for this amazing experience. Malta xxx

    Sylvana Bonello Avatar Sylvana Bonello
    April 28, 2022

    Marco and his team provided an invaluable service that left a lasting impression on our family, friends, and children. No detail was overlooked, from the initial booking request, to the moment when the last piece of food was polished off of our plates. Chef Davide, Francesco, Attilio, and Francesca joined our party of 16 for 3 nights, and created some incredible meals that surpassed all of our expectations. Our gathering at the villa in Puglia was a very special one for my husband’s 50th Birthday. We had guests who flew in from all over the world to come celebrate with us, and I couldn’t be happier that we chose Terra che Vive to help us plan this special occasion. The food was not only delicious, but executed perfectly. The staff was simply lovely. Everyone was so friendly and did everything they could to let us have a few stress free fun evenings enjoying each others company. I can’t recommend this service enough.

    Risa Matsumoto Avatar Risa Matsumoto
    August 8, 2024

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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