Representative photograph: Rows of olive trees in Ostuni, Puglia. Photo: Ian Alexander · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Puglia Olive Press Day
Pick olives in the morning, follow them to the frantoio and taste the oil as it comes out.
- Full day
- from Bari
- Late October to December
- Up to 10 guests
In the Itria Valley the harvest runs from late October. Spend a day with a family grower, from the nets under the trees to the cloudy green oil at the mill.
The hands-on moment
Pick olives in the morning, follow them to the frantoio and taste the oil as it comes out.
The day
08:30
Leave Bari
Drive south into the Itria Valley.
10:00
Harvest in a family grove
Nets under the trees, hand rakes in the branches, crates filling up.
12:30
Lunch under the olives
Orecchiette, burrata and bread with new oil.
14:30
To the frantoio
Follow your olives through washing, crushing and pressing, and taste the oil as it comes out, cloudy and peppery.
16:30
Trulli or the white town
A late-afternoon walk in Alberobello or Ostuni.
18:30
Back in Bari
Signature upgrade
Take home a bottle of the oil your olives went into.
When to go
Late October to December
Make it a weekend
Loved the day? Stay longer.
Weekend
Puglia Olive Harvest Weekend
Two harvest mornings, your own oil from the frantoio, Ostuni and the Adriatic coast.
2 nights, 3 days · Ostuni · Late October to December
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