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

  • Cheese your and tasting put a nice finishing touch to our visit to Apulia. Very informational, to die for fresh mozzarella and burrata, lovely masseria. The light cheese and meats were obviously exceptional. Wished it was a smaller crowd but still very enjoyable. DO NOT LEAVE WOTHOUT TRYING THE VANILLA ICE CREAM.

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    Evan S Avatar Evan S
    October 12, 2023

    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

    My husband and I booked the "Private Cooking Class with Grandmother" on our honeymoon. The class was taught by three women, including the promosed grandmother and her daughter. Both only spoke Italian, so there was a third women to assist with translation. We created orecchiette, macaroni, and sagne from hand. Then we helped roll meatballs. Not only did they teach us how to make two pasta dishes by hand, but they shared ingredients and recipes and served us with our choice of the local Rosé. The food was delicious and we saw all three noodles on restaurant menus throughout the Puglia area. The property was also beautiful and a quiet, relaxing spot for lunch.

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    Suzanne K Welcher Avatar Suzanne K
    October 28, 2024
  • 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

    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

    It was so amazing, we had the best time with davide and francesco, who were both so patient with some of our not-so-talented chefs. The meal itself was delicious, we were with people from Venice and Milan, and they loved the meal so much. The sausage mushroom cherry tomato sauce was beyond my wildest dreams.

    Veronica Laleggia Avatar Veronica Laleggia
    July 6, 2024
  • This was an extremely enjoyable tour full of very interesting information given my Marco. The cheese was absolutely delicious and could not have been fresher! The area is beautiful and accommodation at the Masseria is also offered staying in the Trulli. They looked like a lovely place to stay. We opted for the tour followed by appetisers.....warning! This is like a FULL meal. There was so much food that we were unable to finish it. Everything was tasty! I would highly recommend to anyone considering taking this tour.

    Bunty Cachia Avatar Bunty Cachia
    October 22, 2022

    Wow what a special night to remember! Terre Che Vive and Marco really treated us well by arranging a special pizza making night for my friend’s birthday at our trulli villa. Marco and Davide setup early and literally took care of everything. They shared the best tips and tricks for making delicious authentic pizza and also treated us to some local side dishes. This is a must do at your rental or go to where they are. Both Marco and Davide are very talented at what they do and all around very kind wonderful people who made us feel right at home in Puglia!

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    Maura Cullen Avatar Maura Cullen
    June 8, 2024

    Friendly, intriguing and very nice to try delicious freshly made mozzarella and burrata

    Fredrik Busck Avatar Fredrik Busck
    August 2, 2023

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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