We spent a day visiting "Tenuta Vannulo", a buffalo farm (or "Tenuta") well respected in the region. It's all organic and, like all Mozzarella from the DOP, hand made. The buffalo are extremely pampered - they decide when to milk themselves!
We took a tour, ate some (awesome) yoghurt and gelato, and of coarse, bought some mozzarella for the evening meal.
We actually went twice - On the first day we enquired about tours - and booked one for the following morning. €4,00 per person. When we showed up; the guide told us that the price had doubled because a Tedesco group had hot shown up. WTF? Not my problem. They sold me a tour for €4,00. Why should I pay double that because some asshat German tourists did not show ("Tedesco" is a derogatory Italian term meaning essentially "German Asshat"; a German is normally an "Alemagni")
In the end the "Tedesci" did show - and it turns out that they were not German at all - but Americans living in Germany and therefore American Asshats. (although they did turn out to be OK people)
The tour was really cool - we got to see robotic self serve milking machines, a buffalo with afterbirth, and the process of hand "cutting" the Mozzarella.
I would recommend the tour - but insist on a fixed price so that if some asshat (German, American, or otherwise) does not show that your price is set.
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