Olive Oil Tour & Tasting with Lunch in a family Olive grove in Messinia
Open up your senses, taste with your mind and soul, and feel the extra virgin olive oil!
A 3-hour olive oil tour and tasting experience that includes a visit and a walk through a family olive grove, an olive oil tasting workshop and a light local lunch.
A memorable, private and personalized experience exclusively for you and your beloved ones, because,
once booked for the day no other guests are added in the experience!
Where
Join us for a 3-hour tour of the wonderful land of Messinia and its perennial olive trees.
You will visit an olive grove located in a small village 50km (31 mi) from Kalamata in Messinia region, Peloponnese, towards Pylos coastal town, just 10' away from Costa Navarino resort.
When
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April - October, Monday to Sunday, excluding Greek official holidays.
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October (includes olive harvesting).
The Olive oil experience
The Olive oil tour and tasting experience is the outcome of a local couple for olive oil, nature and the land of Messinia. Their dreams found a home in a small village in Messinia, in their olive grove and the flavour of extra virgin olive oil.
Nowadays, their mission is to introduce visitors to the wonderful world of olive oil and help them get a taste of Messinia.
Part 1: Arrival and visit at the family olive grove - Warm welcome
You will visit a beautiful olive grove of a small village, located in the west of Messinia, just 10 minutes away from Costa Navarino Bay and Nestor’s Palace. It is the ideal backdrop to unravel the history, tradition and ancient myths of this historical place.
The owners will welcome you with a homemade Greek local breakfast while the olive experience is enriched with a video presentation about the history of olive and olive oil!
Olive grove (April - October) – Experience a guided 30-minute relaxing stroll by the locals through perennial olive trees. During your walk, you’ll get acquainted with different varieties of olive trees in all shapes and of all ages.
Olive harvest (available only in October) – You’ll walk through the olive trees and meet local families as they harvest their own trees. You’ll enjoy the experience of a lifetime either by handpicking olives and placing them directly in a basket or by picking them using a net.
Part 2: Olive Oil Tasting (April - October)
What follows is an interactive olive oil tasting workshop by an olive oil lover! The tasting session includes 4 different varieties of extra virgin olive oil, focusing on sensory tasting, defects and positive traits.
Part 3: Light local lunch
Get a taste of traditional, local food, such as lalagia (savoury or sweet looped ribbons of dough), or pasto (pieces of cured pork), Kalamata olives, local cheese and enjoy a homemade local light lunch!
Would you like to upgrade your Olive oil tasting experience?
Add one of the following gastronomic activities and feel like a local!
- Cooking class and lunch with a Greek mum
- Bread making and baking in a wood-fired oven
- Olive making workshop and full lunch
Are you a travel agency or company and are looking for a trusted local partner?
Do you wish to build a mutual, fruitful collaboration and would like to provide a one of a kind gastronomic experiences or team building events?
You can contact us and organize it for you in the best way possible!
Tips
To make your visit even more memorable, here are some tips:
- Wear comfortable shoes and a hat as you’ll spend quite a bit of time outdoors.
- Notify us of any special dietary needs (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, flexitarian etc.).
- Notify us of any allergies (e.g. food allergies, allergies to bees, etc.).
Pricing
Small, only private experiences of 5-7 guests: 120,00€ / person
Min. of guests: 2 - Max.: 12.
Contact us to request a price:
- Max. of people: 12. For more than 12 people, please contact us.
- For transfer services or organize your transfer from Athens city or any other place in Peloponnese and join the Olive oil tasting experience.
We can also design and provide tailor-made tours and multi-day tours in the region of Peloponnese upon request.
Drop us a line at mamasflavours@gmail.com and together we’ll come up with a tailor-made gastronomic experience
just for you!
Included in the price
- Olive oil tour and tasting with 4 Greek extra virgin olive oil varieties by an olive oil taster
- Local breakfast & light lunch
- Greek local delicacies
- Local host / olive oil taster throughout the experience
- All taxes
Excluded from the price
- Full local lunch (upon request and at an extra charge)
- The Extra experiences may be provided upon request, depending on availability and at an extra charge
- Personal purchases from the owners' small shop (optional)
- Tips & gratuities (optional)
- Transfer services may be provided upon request and at an extra charge
Additional info
- The experience is provided upon request and depending on availability. In case there is no availability for the day you are interested, the experience can be offered the next available date or choose another similar available experience after coordination.
- Transportation is needed to visit the family olive grove which is located 1 hour away from Kalamata and 20' away from Pylos. Please inform us if you have your own vehicle. In other case, we can arrange it with our partners at an extra cost.
- Availability: April - October, from Monday to Sunday and on 15th August, excluding Holy Friday - Easter Tuesday and on Greek official holidays.
- A guided tour in the archaeological site of Nestor’s Palace can be arranged, upon request and at an extra charge depending on availability.
- Meeting point and time: In front of the Port Authority Offices in Kalamata at 09:00 a.m.
- Languages: English, German & Greek. Other languages can be provided at an extra charge.
- Family friendly.
- Wheelchair accessible 80%.
Bookings & payment
- Bookings: In order to organize your experience in the best way, ideally the booking and the full payment should be made the latest 2 days before.
- For booking less than 2 days or last minute requests, please contact us via email to check availability.
- When the booking and the transaction are completed, the experience is officially confirmed by Mama's flavours through email.
- All payments can be made through our booking engine, bank transfer (you can contact us via email for this option) or Paypal.
- Cash is not accepted.
Cancellation Policy
- Mama’s flavours reserves the right to postpone the experience due to bad weather. If it is postponed, no refund is given but, the experience is offered the next available date after coordination.
- For cancellations from our guests, there is no refund regardless of cancellation status but, you may choose a next available date.
- All sales final.
Mama's flavours philosophy
Our scope is to provide our guests - travelers a high quality personalized and authentic local experience that goes above and beyond their expectations. For this reason, we prefer to organize only private experiences to couples, friends and families. This applies also for larger groups for e.g. a group of friends or a team building events.
When you, our guest, book one or more of our gastronomic experiences, the day is dedicated to you, your friends and your beloved ones. Once booked for the day no other guests are added. With this way, we enjoy an amazing day together and at the end we say until next time as friends!
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