Ostuni Olive Oil Farm Tour: Cave Mill and Tasting

The Ostuni olive oil farm tour starts outdoors, on foot among trees that have stood for a thousand years. A guide leads the way through the grove and tells the story of these trees and the traditions around them.

Then the story goes underground. You step into one of the oldest cave oil mills in the area and see how oil was pressed in the past, before moving on to the farm's modern mill, where today's equipment turns the harvest into extra-virgin oil. Seeing both side by side makes the difference between old and new methods easy to grasp.

The visit closes with a short tasting course, so you learn to pick out what a genuine extra-virgin oil smells and tastes like instead of just sipping it.

• A walk with the guide beneath thousand-year-old olive trees
• The hypogeous olive press, an old mill inside a cave
• The farm's modern oil mill
• Three oils to taste, with friselline and water

The whole experience lasts about 90 minutes and the guide speaks English or Italian. It suits anyone curious about where Apulian oil comes from.