Category: Food and Wine
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Wine Tours
What better way to discover Puglia than through it’s wine! Come and learn about the history of Puglian wine with us. We’ll customise a tour that’s right for you. Maybe you just want to get down to the tasting of the wine or you’d like a tour of the vineyard and barrel room or maybe…
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Beautiful Boutique Vineyard
Discovering more Puglian vineyards. It was with much anticipation and elation after such a long time in lockdown, and living under strict government enforcement rules that limited our freedom, that we’re now finally able to breathe again, to live again and to experience new things again. So, one of the first things I wanted to…
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Love & Wine this Valentine’s Day
On this so called, ‘most romantic day of the year’ my thoughts turn to the connection between love and wine. If there isn’t any love in your life, then rest assured that there’s always wine! Which leads me nicely onto my next point; Puglian wines, which are one of the best kept secrets that…
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Cooking with Mamma
Want to learn how to cook real authentic Puglian food? Who best to teach you than an Italian Mamma who has learnt the family secret recipes which have been handed down from Mamma to daughter for generations. Check out our YouTube video of Cooking with Mamma Puglian food is considered ‘cucina povera‘, which literally translates…
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Olive Oil & Mozzarella Tasting
Puglia is one of the largest producers of olive oil in the world and the quality is second to none! At Sant’Oro they strive to be the best, and the awards and accolades speak for themselves. This family-run oil press, ‘Frantoio‘ has been in the family for generations and the young siblings, Cataldo and his…
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Not your average ‘Wine Tour’
What do you look for when visiting a foreign country? Do you want to get to know the local culture? Sample the local food? Taste the local wine? And meet local people who are passionate about all of the above? Then why not join us on our Puglian Pleasures, ‘Food, wine & cultural experience’?…
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Trip Advisor
Puglian Pleasures wine experience is now live on Trip Advisor. If you have attended one of our tours, please feel free to leave a review on our site. Happy New Year to you all!
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Festive Fun in Puglia: 2017
Pugliese people are just starting to think about Christmas and although there aren’t any festive lights up yet, things are starting to gear up to that Holy day. In fact, only the other day I heard my first Christmas song, no, not on the radio but in a local bar/restaurant, and not just one random…
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Puglian Pleasures Wine Experience: The start of the summer season with delightful guests from the UK
Summer has arrived in Puglia and as things start to hot up here, the tourists begin to arrive. They come here for a new Italian experience, to get away from the overcrowded tourist areas of Northern Italy and to discover the many charms that Puglia has managed to keep a secret, well, up until now!…