Arianna & Friends is a company that organizes customized holidays in the Italian region of Tuscany. It offers a private, half-day tour to an olive oil mill. English-speaking guides are available to lead the tour and explain the process of manufacturing olive oil. Tasting is included and the tour can be combined with other wine and food tours.
Arianna & Friends S.r.l.
Via Mazzini, 71
56037 Peccioli
Pisa
Italy
011-39-0587-672088
ariannandfriends.com
This organization offers a guided tour of the family owned Fonte di Foiano factory, located at the top of a hill in the Tuscan countryside. Cooking courses are also available, which can be combined with the olive oil tour. The company can arrange accommodations, if required.
Italy Wine & Gourmet
Regency San Marino srl
Via C. Manetti 34
47891 Dogana
Repubblica di San Marino
Italy
011-378-0549-941111
Johnny Madge is an olive oil expert who organizes tours of olive groves and olive presses in the region of Lazio, just north of Italy's capital city, Rome. The tour will start or finish with a tasting at Johnny's own wine bar in the medieval, traffic-free village of Casperia. Tours have a maximum of eight guests. This trip is ideal for travelers visiting Rome who wish to spend a day in the countryside.
Johnny Madge
Geco 107
Piazza Municipio 3
Casperia
Rieti
Italy
johnnymadge.com
Experience Puglia offers a number of tours to visitors who wish to explore the Puglia region in southern Italy. The guide, Angelo Coluccia, is local to Puglia and he runs a two-day Wine and Olive Oil Tasting Tour. Guests visit the local oil mill where they are shown the various processes involved in producing olive oil. Tasting takes place outside, under olive trees. This tour also includes a visit to a vineyard and wine tasting. Accommodation in a local, family run hotel is included.
Experience Puglia
Via G. di Vittorio, 107
70023 Gioia del Colle
Puglia
Italy
011-335 6814139
experiencepuglia.com
