I first encountered Pugliese hospitality years ago while working as a journalist in Milan, where I had the great fortune to befriend a gaggle of twentysomething Apulians.
They plied me with pasta, wine and conversation, inviting me to visit their native region on the heel of Italy’s boot. The area was still fairly sleepy in 2003. At the time, budget airlines were beginning to connect the region to European capitals, and the entrepreneurial Melpignano family had only recently pioneered luxury hospitality on the coast south of Bari, with the opening of Masseria San Domenico in 1996.
Returning last summer, I discovered a region just as welcoming…
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