Choose your Rhodes wine tasting around the meal
A Rhodes wine tasting suits different kinds of day. A private session with a professional sommelier concentrates on wine and Greek food pairing in Rhodes Town. A village experience adds a cooperative visit, cooking and lunch. A gourmet programme brings a cooking session together with a substantial lunch and transport. These are different ways to spend time with food, rather than interchangeable versions of a vineyard visit.
Begin with your available time and where you will start. Staying in town makes a short tasting easy to combine with a guided Old Town walk. Cooking is better treated as the main activity of the day, with enough space afterwards to enjoy lunch. For other ways to organise your stay, the excursion overview separates land trips from days on the water.
Our picks: Food and wine
The cooperative visit combines cooking and wine; the private tasting focuses on wine with Greek food. The gourmet class includes a multi-course lunch.
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Cooking and wine in Apollona
- Wine tasting
- Lunch
- Greek coffee
Join a cooking lesson at an agricultural co-op; pickup is optional.
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Cooking class and wine tasting
- 12 Course Gourmet Lunch
- Olive Oil / Honey Tasting
- Air conditioned vehicle
A certified sommelier accompanies this culinary experience.
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Private wine tasting and food pairing
- Wine tasting
- Greek food pairing
A private tasting guided by a professional sommelier, priced per person.
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Choose between a private sommelier tasting, a cooperative cooking experience and a gourmet programme with transport.
Tasting with a professional sommelier
The private beginners' tasting lasts 50 minutes and meets on Polidorou Street in Rhodes Town. A professional sommelier leads the wine tasting, with Greek food pairing included. This is the concentrated choice when you want someone to explain the relationship between the glass and the food without committing to a longer cooking programme. The price is per person, even though the experience is private.
Food pairing gives the tasting a different purpose from lunch. Treat the included Greek accompaniment as part of the wine session; extra food and drinks cost separately. The appeal is the guided comparison, so this option fits visitors who want to talk about flavour and learn how food changes their impressions. Our private experiences guide puts this session alongside other exclusive formats.
Cooking class with a cooperative visit
The village cooking experience starts outside the women's cooperative in Apollona. It includes a host, an agricultural cooperative visit, wine tasting, a cooking lesson, lunch, Greek coffee and souvenir photos. Pickup is an optional booking choice. Travellers making their own way should plan around the cooperative meeting point rather than treating the activity as a town-centre tasting.
Choose this format if preparing food matters as much as eating it. The lesson and the shared meal give the outing a clear shape: time with ingredients and preparation, followed by lunch and coffee. Leave a generous part of the day available instead of fitting it tightly between another departure and an evening appointment. For decisions about your base and onward travel, see where to stay.
A food tour built around a gourmet lunch
The four-hour gourmet programme combines a cooking class, wine tasting and a 12-course lunch. Olive oil and honey tasting are included, as are a certified sommelier guide, an English-speaking driver and an air-conditioned vehicle with port or hotel pickup and drop-off. It suits a day when transport and the meal should be part of one organised experience.
Compare this with the cooperative lesson by looking at what you want to spend time doing. The gourmet format makes the lunch and the different tastings central. The cooperative experience foregrounds the host, agricultural setting and cooking lesson. Neither choice needs an invented list of wineries or grape varieties to explain its appeal: the included activities are already a useful basis for choosing.
If your interest is eating while exploring the medieval streets, follow the private food-walk discussion on the private tours page. That combines a different setting with local delicacies and a light meze meal. Keep it separate from a cooking class, where preparation is part of the experience, and from a short tasting, where the sommelier session is the focus.
Questions about food and wine experiences
Which option fits a short visit to town?
The 50-minute private sommelier tasting is the compact option. It includes wine tasting and Greek food pairing, leaving more of the day for your own plans.
Does the village cooking class include pickup?
Pickup is optional. The independent meeting point is outside the women's cooperative in Apollona; choose the pickup option if you want that arrangement.
Is the private tasting priced for the whole group?
It is priced per person. Its private format and its charging basis are separate features, so use the number of participants when considering your budget.
Which programme includes a larger lunch?
The gourmet experience includes a 12-course lunch, alongside the cooking class and tastings. The cooperative experience also includes lunch, plus Greek coffee.