Olive Oil Tours in Italy: 15 Estates Worth the Drive

1.Sorrento Farm and Food Experience including Olive Oil, Limoncello, Wine tasting

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2,524 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $114Our pick

Meet in central Sorrento and ride into the hills to La Masseria Farm, where family hosts such as Eugenio and Raffaele show you lemon and olive groves, animals, wine production, and handmade foods. Taste olive oils, honey, cheese, marmalade, limoncello, and wine, then sit down to a hearty lunch made largely from farm-grown ingredients.

“Absolutely awesome way to spend a somewhat rainy day. Beautiful farm with lemons, olive, chestnut, orange and other trees. Very informative tour by the family sprinkled with humour and followed by an amazing home cooked farm to table meal! Possibly the best we had in Italy - including amazing bread, bruschetta, pasta puttanesca with home grown olives, grilled veg, cheese board, lemon tarts, and home made wine. Tasting and purchases followed. Highly highly recommend. Lastly lovely to see the wonderful goats, pigs and cats interact with our group.”

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2.Olive oil tasting in Sorrento

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 434 reviews · 1 hour (approx.) · from $50

From Sorrento, Sant'Agnello, Piano di Sorrento, or Meta, you’ll ride to Frantoio Gargiulo for a short olive-grove tour and a guided tasting of 15 extra-virgin oils. Staff such as Francesca, Viola, and Susy explain old and modern methods, followed by balsamic, honey, marmalades, and homemade liqueurs. Hotel transfers are included.

“Loved seeing the old farm house and how olives were farmed many years ago. A nice surprise was the wine tasting upstairs in their new beautiful restaurant. They let us do the wine tasting after the olive oil tasting. Afterwards, we put together a nice assortment of oil, wine, honey & pasta to ship home. Tony did a great job explaining the wine & he was very entertaining! The whole experience was organized, fun and tasty!”

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3.Lemon, Olive Oil and Wine Tasting Tour with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 300 reviews · from $115

Spend four hours at La Masseria Farm with family guides such as Raffaele and Eugenio. Walk through olive and lemon groves, meet farm animals, visit the old oil mill and wine cellar, taste oils, honey, cheese, wine, and lemonade, then sit down to a homemade meal and limoncello.

“Very friendly and knowledgeable tour guide (Eugenio). He helped four senior women navigate hills and cobblestones in the rain with humor and kindness. Great fun and delicious meal after the tour. Fair prices for items they sold (olive oil, limoncello, etc.) highly recommend this tour.”

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4.Wine and Olive Oil Tasting at a Local Farm

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 294 reviews · 1 hour · from $43

At Ledà d'Ittiri Wine Resort, an English-speaking guide such as Valeria introduces you to five Sardinian wines, local pecorino, olives, bread, and cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil. Hear how the farm began, taste each wine with suggested pairings, then browse the estate products and walk among the vines and olive trees.

“Wow, the wine tasting was amazing! The guide was so sweet and a lot of information! The combo of cheese and the wines is so good! I would recommend it to everyone who loves wine and tasting! Lovely place, lovely wine and lovely people around here! I love it!”

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5.Masseria tour among thousand-year-old olive trees with oil tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 261 reviews · 1.5 hours · from $33

At Masseria Rienzo near Ostuni, guides including Julia and Chiara lead you through a family olive farm, thousand-year-old trees, an underground cave mill, and a modern working mill. You finish with a guided tasting of three oils, friselline, and water. The tour lasts about 1.5 hours and runs in Italian and English.

“Our guide was very informative and the olive grove was lovely.”

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6.Olive Grove Tour with Wines & Olive Oil Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 241 reviews · 2 hours · from $59

Francesco leads a 45-minute walk through his family olive grove near Balestrate, explaining cultivation and oil making. Then join his grandparents in a typical Sicilian home for extra virgin olive oil, wine, balsamic vinegar, limoncello, and traditional dishes. The $59, two-hour experience is family-run, multilingual, and wheelchair accessible.

“This was the best tour I have ever taken!!! Francesco and his family were amazing simply amazing. I would highly suggest this tour to everyone you will go away feeling so in touch with the country and the culture.”

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7.Vineyard Tour with Wine, Olive Oil & Food Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 221 reviews · 2 hours · from $42

Join Marco or another family guide at Agriturismo La Rocca for a two-hour walk through a Bardolino DOC vineyard and olive grove. Then taste five wines, house extra virgin olive oil, local cheeses, and cured meats on a terrace above Lake Garda. The group is limited to 10, and English is the tour language.

“It was one of the highlights of our trip for us. We felt very welcome and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, from the lovely peaceful walk through the vineyards and learning about grapes, wine and olive trees to tasting 4 different types of delicious wine and local delicacies. Thank you so much for having us, guys. Many greetings from UK da Tanya & Ash”

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8.Tuscany Bike Tour with Wine, Oil and Food in the Florentine Hills

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 209 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $95

Ride a geared touring bike from Florence’s Oltrarno through Porta Romana, Medici estates, vineyards, olive groves, and Arcetri. Expect four hills, city traffic at the start and finish, and a farm stop with Chianti, olive oil, bread, cheese, cold cuts, and honey. Guides may include Giuseppe, Eli, Claudio, Alessandro, or Valerio.

“The scenery, the wealth of knowledge our guide shared with us about the sites we were seeing and about olive and wine making”

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9.Lake Garda Oil Mill Tour with Olive Oil Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 205 reviews · 1.5 hours · from $31

At Olio Viola in Bardolino, a guide such as Elke explains Lake Garda’s olive-growing traditions and shows how extra virgin olive oil is made. You’ll visit the mill, watch a production video, then taste four oils, including Garda DOP, with bread, salami, olive pâté, and local olives in the garden.

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10.Florence Food Tour: Home-Made Pasta, Truffle, Cantucci, Olive Oil, Gelato

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 187 reviews · 2 to 3 hours (approx.) · from $54

Walk central Florence with a local guide, stopping for fresh pasta, truffle, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, cantucci, Tuscan dishes, and gelato. Guides such as Anna, Lorenzo, Marilisa, Francesco, and Valerie combine food with city stories. The group is capped at 14, though the tastings may not replace a full lunch.

“This was the best tour I’ve ever had! The guide, Francesco, was knowledgeable, personable and had such great facts about Florence! We enjoyed every stop on the tour!”

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11.San Felice: Olive Oil Tasting with local food on Garda Hills

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 186 reviews · 2 hours · from $58

Spend two hours at a family olive estate near San Felice del Benaco, tasting Garda D.O.P. extra virgin olive oil with cheeses, charcuterie, lake fish, honey, bread, and local wine. You will tour the grove, see Lake Garda and Rocca di Manerba, and learn about the estate’s olive varieties in a small group of up to 10.

“Cannot recommend this experience enough! It was a highlight of our trip, even better and more generous with food than expected :) thank you to the team!”

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12.Tuscany Bike Tour with Wine & Olive Oil

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 174 reviews · 4 hours · from $100

Ride from Florence’s Oltrarno into the hills with guides such as Giuseppe, Claudio, Alex, or Luca. Expect 11 kilometers of paved-road cycling, four climbs, frequent stops, and a family-run tasting of Chianti, olive oil, bread, cheeses, and Tuscan cold cuts. Standard bikes suit active riders, while e-bikes cost 20 EUR extra.

“This was such a fun break from the city. Our guide Toto was charming, professional, and so much fun! The scenery was lovely and the e-bikes were top notch. If only Mother Nature had been kinder and it didn’t rain. Even still, it was a great experience. I would recommend this to anyone. But do yourself a favor and get the e-bike. It’s worth it if you aren’t a big cyclist.”

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13.Olive Oil Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 171 reviews · 1 hour · from $53

Meet your English or Italian-speaking guide at Masseria Valente near Ostuni. Walk among olive trees said to be more than 2,000 years old, visit a 16th-century underground oil mill and a 19th-century mill, then taste three organic oils with olives, tarallini, and fried broad beans. Guides may include Angela, Carla, or Maria.

“Maria our guide was great! she took us through the masseria and told us all about the history and the various olive trees on the farm.. the oils they had tasted good and we bought several bottles back.”

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14.Great Chianti Wine and Olive Oil Trail with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 160 reviews · 5 - 7 hours · from $104

Ride from Florence through the Chianti hills in a Mercedes minivan, stopping at three wineries, an olive oil mill, and Greve in Chianti. You’ll taste Chianti Classico and Supertuscan wines, learn from guides such as Francesco, Chiara, or Peter, and enjoy a three-course Tuscan lunch with wine pairings.

“It was an amazing day! We visited 3 wineries and at one saw the entire olive oil production -was so fascinating! Although wine was the main feature of the tour, seeing the olive oil being made was a massive highlight. In the middle of the tour, we briefly stopped at a small town speckled with terracotta cats and had just enough time for a coffee. Imo, the value matches. 10+ small glasses of wine, transit, and lunch. A lovely surprise was the community aspect. It was two groups of 8 and we were easily able to chat and laugh with one another. We felt slightly rushed at the 2nd winery…”

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15.Guided Wine and Olive oil tasting

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 158 reviews · from $40

Spend about an hour with Valeria or Monica at Azienda Agricola Leda’ d’Ittiri in the Porto Conte Natural Reserve. Learn about Sardinian grapes and olive trees, taste four to five wines with pecorino and sausage, then finish with extra-virgin olive oil. The calm, personal setting suits adults and visitors aged 16 and older.

“Descrizione vini , formaggi ed l'olio della zona ...interessante! Esperienza fatta insieme a mia figlia ....da consigliare !”

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