Taste olive oil where it is pressed, not where it is shelved.
Mill tours in Crete during the pressing, grove walks under thousand-year-old trees in Puglia, Andalusian tastings in the sea of olives around Jaén. Reviews of the olive oil tours worth a morning of your trip.
Four olive oil tours, four countries, one peppery cough in the throat.
A farm above Sorrento, a governor’s mill on Corfu, an organic almazara outside Ronda and the factories of Mendoza. The places that explain olive oil best, and what a seat costs.
01The Sorrento farmSorrento Farm and Food Experience including Olive Oil, Limoncello, Wine tastingOlive oil, lemons and limoncello on one terraced farm. The olive oil day more people book than any other.
02The Corfu millThe Governor’s Olive Mill Tour with Olive Oil TastingA family mill in the Ionian groves the Venetians planted. The tasting runs from mild to bitter.
03The Andalusian almazaraRonda: LA Almazara LA Organic, Olive Oil Museum and TastingAn organic mill and small museum in the hills by Ronda. A proper tasting for under $30.
04The Mendoza runFrom Mendoza: 3 Wineries, Olive Oil Factory Tour & TastingThree wineries and an olive oil factory in one day under the Andes. Harvest here falls in autumn, which is April.
Greek olive oil tours: the mill, the grove, or the long lunch.
Greeks get through more olive oil per head than almost anyone, and most of it comes from Koroneiki trees in Crete and the Peloponnese. Four ways to taste it, and what each one costs to join.
1★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · Crete: Quad Safari, Olive Mill with Tasting & Ghost Village
Oil and wine togetherA flight of oils, then the wine from the same hillside.
Mill visitsStone presses, steel decanters, a first taste off the spout.
Farm visitsWalk the grove with the family that picks it.
Tasting with lunchThe oil arrives on dakos, beans and grilled fish.
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Six olive oil regions worth building a trip around.
Cretan mills, Tuscan hill farms, the old masserie of Puglia, Sorrento’s terraces, the Andalusian plain and the Dalmatian coast. The best olive oil tasting in each.
Italian olive oil tours run from Lake Garda to the heel.
Every region presses its own oil and argues it is the best. Tuscan oil is grassy and sharp, Ligurian soft, Pugliese oil comes off trees planted before the Normans arrived. Taste two regions and you will start taking sides.
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Olive oil tastings that pour wine, honey, raki or balsamic alongside.
Most tastings set the oil beside whatever else the valley makes. A Cretan farm pours raki, Modena brings out balsamic, half of Tuscany opens a bottle of red. These are the pairings people book most.
The most popular olive oil tours in the world right now.
All the olive oil tours, most popular first →The tastings, mills and grove walks more travellers book than any others, and what earns each its place.
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Sorrento Farm and Food Experience including Olive Oil, Limoncello, Wine tasting
Meet in central Sorrento and ride into the hills to La Masseria Farm, a fourth-generation family property. You’ll walk among lemon and olive trees, learn how the farm produces oil and limoncello, taste honey, cheese, marmalade, and wine, then sit down to a farm-to-table lunch. Family members such as Eugenio and Raffaele may lead the visit.
From · $114
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Crete: Quad Safari, Olive Mill with Tasting & Ghost Village
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From Mendoza: 3 Wineries, Olive Oil Factory Tour & Tasting
from $34
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Knossos-Zeus Cave -Old Traditional Villages-Olive Oil Factory
from $136
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The Governor’s Olive Mill Tour with Olive Oil Tasting
from $82
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From Chania: Olive Oil, Wine, Cheese & Honey Tasting Tour
from $49
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Private Krka Waterfalls tour with 30min Boat Cruse
from $301
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Crete: Road-trip to Lasithi, Zeus Cave & Olive Mill Farm
from $47
Spanish olive oil tours, in the sea of olives.
Drive north from Granada and the hills turn into rows of olive trees that run to the horizon: the province of Jaén alone has tens of millions of them. Andalusian almazaras open for tastings that cost less than a lunch.
- 1Ronda: LA Almazara LA Organic, Olive Oil Museum and Tastingfrom $29
- 2Guided tour and olive oil tasting in Alhaurin el Grande (Málaga)from $35
- 3Guided Tasting Tour in 16th century House and Olive Oil Factoryfrom $31
Olive mills only press from October to January. Book an olive oil tour around that.
In the Mediterranean the olives come down in late autumn and the mills run day and night until the crop is in. Visit then and you taste oil hours old, green and peppery. The rest of the year the presses stand clean and the tour is about how it is done, so groves, museums and tastings are the better booking from spring to September. South of the equator the calendar flips: Mendoza and the Cape press from April.
What an olive oil tasting costs.
Every olive oil tour on the site, grouped by price. A good tasting at a working mill often costs less than the bottle you carry home.
Mill visits, museum tastings and farm walks, usually an hour or two with bread and three oils.
Half and full days: oil and wine estates, cooking with the oil, a grove walk ending at lunch.
Private days with a driver, long lunches in the hills and the estate tours with a sommelier.
Three olive oil tours that go further than the tasting room.
A palace where the oil jars still stand, a bike ride between Tuscan presses, and the museums that keep the stone mills turning for visitors.
Knossos, then the press
The storerooms at Knossos still hold the giant clay jars the Minoans filled with oil, wine and grain three and a half thousand years ago. These days pair the palace with a working mill in the villages south of Heraklion, so you see the jar and then the oil that went in it.
- 1Knossos-Zeus Cave -Old Traditional Villages-Olive Oil Factory★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 694 reviews
- 2Lassithi, Zeus Cave, Olive Mill Farm & Knossos Combo Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 404 reviews
- 3Knossos & Lasithi Plateau: Zeus Cave,Villages, Olive Oil Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 328 reviews
Between the presses by bike
The hills south of Florence are steep enough that most of these rides run on e-bikes. Gravel roads, cypress rows, a stop at a frantoio for bread and new oil, and a glass of Chianti before the long descent home.
- 1Tuscany Bike Tour with Wine, Oil and Food in the Florentine Hills★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 209 reviews
- 2Florence: Tuscany Bike Tour with Wine & Olive Oil★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 174 reviews
- 3Florence: E-Bike Tour with Olive Oil in the Tuscan Hills★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 134 reviews
The olive oil museums
Before centrifuges, olives were crushed under granite wheels and pressed through woven mats stacked into a column. The museums keep those mills and mats, and most finish with a tasting that sets the old method against the modern oil.
- 1Ronda: LA Almazara LA Organic, Olive Oil Museum and Tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 435 reviews
- 2Split: Klis Fortress GOT and Olive Museum Entry Tickets★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 283 reviews
- 3Visit Oil Mill Museum and Olive Oil Tasting in Ronda★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 105 reviews
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