All right
Welcome to matera and this is ile palazzato residence in winery
We are actually staying in a cave and how cool is that? Let's check in and check this place out
Oh
It was an easy drive to get here from polano
About an hour and 20 minutes is what it took
But key tip here is make sure you get here before 8 30 pm because it is a limited traffic zone
so you want to make sure that you are mindful of that and we are checking into our super cool hotel, which is the
palazzoto
residence and winery
What i'm hoping is that we will have laundry service at the hotel
Build those muscles. Oh my gosh. I feel like a mule
Which is probably the former method of transportation here in bitter I would guess
Oh my god, are you sure you don't want me to take my own?
This will actually be the first shoot I lose weight
Whoa, how did you do that?
I don't know if I did but this is pretty convenient. All right
Very easy. No problem
Because sometimes
There are problems. Yes, because we are in historical centers
So il palesato see fazzotto
And let me just tell you this place is stunning
Yes, and this was an ancient house of the saucy and that was a stable for animals because people live there
with animals in the past until 1952
wow, fantastic
Down there was the horse table today is the breakfast area but in the past
a staple friends and all the rooms
Outside and they were ancient houses. Wow
This is fabulous. How old is this? Well, how old is the hotel two years? Okay. It's very new but
The location is very old. Wow
After a long day of driving this is perfect beautiful carafe of water with fresh lemon
It's nice to do the b and b's but it's also nice not to at times welcome to palazzato
Is
Spectacular I am literally walking around in not only a cave
But in the former home of animals from hundreds and hundreds of years ago
This is how people lived they lived in a cavernous area like this
the animals stayed here the people
Were behind me where reception is
This is fantastic. And this is probably a place. I want to spend more time indoors than outdoors in matera
Anna I think this um
Might be quite an enjoyable stay
And what is your name? Uh, my name is borah
I'm from albania. I live in matera since I was six year old years old
Sorry about them. Oh, you look great. You look I mean
So what are we having for breakfast tomorrow tomorrow we have uh,
Continental uh breakfast
But not hot okay cold. Okay wonderful
either can I
And then this is where we have breakfast or you can also take your photo
Because we are residents and winery so we have
Great, we have six wine
five red and wine
white chardonnay and from basilicata the wine from basilicata
And these are the individual rooms
So when you stay here at il palesoto
You actually don't stay in you stay out and in the rooms are literally outside here in this beautiful courtyard area
So, let's see which one ours is
All right, the long anticipated entry to our beautiful room
Wow
Oh my gosh, wow
Immediately upon entering this room the smell the scent is so fragrant and clean
Like linen, I don't know the smell is so beautiful. Yeah, really beautiful flowers
Okay
And here you find coffee and tea okay, you can make it by yourself
beautiful
That you can make by yourself
And you put some water or this is offered by also if you take something from me, but that's the price list
Okay also for the wine, but the waters are free. Yes. All the water is free. Yes
Wow, is this so beautiful?
So beautiful
Well, this is romantic a little too romantic, oh, yeah, it's gorgeous look at this
Oh no
There is literally no door
On the toilet
well
I thought this rotated but it does not
so
um
It's gonna be like this
Oh my god
Or should you get used to this oh my god
Did you notice the shower hi dear oh wait and anna when you want to get up or you know
Just close your eyes and turn your head. Oh my god. It's very sexy. So let me tell you guys
this is a honeymoon hotel and we are not a
Couple but we're gonna be tonight
Oh my god
Yep, so we have a beautiful queen bed a ton of snuggling a ton of clothes time
We have this beautiful shower wait for it
Right by the bed
so on it, just no peeking and
you're like
maybe on
Maybe what we could do is we can go true old school style and you can be my little italian woman and make my coffee
In the morning while i'm taking my shower. No
Honestly
Honestly joking aside. This is a super romantic hotel. And if you are looking for the perfect honeymoon suite, I mean you are literally
now
in a cave
And your room is in a cave. It's super cold, which i'm totally enjoying because it has been absolutely hot hot here in italy
These shampoos are in the stone
And you literally take a shower hair in the open it is
Hot and I don't mean that weather-wise. I mean that sexy-wise. It's a pretty hot shower
and the commode
european
and the floor with the pavers
This room cost about
300 euro a night and it's worth every penny
if you're looking for this kind of experience, there are absolutely
inexpensive b b's that you can go to and stay at but
The reason why I chose this hotel, and the reason why I chose to break the budget a bit on this
Uh overnight was because I really wanted to feel matera and while there probably are less expensive options to do that in a cave
I think this is an extremely elegant and
Unique place to stay and I wanted to show you guys so i'm doing this for you and maybe a little bit of me
It's beautiful it is isn't it?
We could watch scary movies later
Skeleton keys are a thing here in italy
We are on our way now to have some wine here at ilo
Which is uh renowned for not just being a fantastic hotel stay at but also a fantastic winery
so we definitely want to try some of the wines from basilicata tonight, and we're going to see
if
Uh burra is here to bora. Bora either. One of you is here tonight to help us
Are you ready for us? No i'm not oh, oh, it's just it's just for yeah, where are you you are
She gave me a scare because we are ready for wine you remember my name borah. Okay, right. Do you remember mine?
Oh
You got it. I found you on facebook instagram
Yeah, okay, and I saw our video good and the video. Yes
And on the customer see? Oh great. Did you like it? I like it
Well, you need to go home and binge watch tonight
This is certainly the place to have a glass of wine. The view is spectacular. The terrace here is incredible
We're gonna do this
Tonight I want to taste wines from basilicata, so we have come here to the winery at il palazzotto to truly taste
Basilicata in every way so i'm super excited about the little taste that we're gonna have tonight
Okay, and when you guys are in matera, you need to come by to el paso?
Red wine
Where's the winery at where is it or where's the vineyard? Do you know basil?
Are these red wines? Yeah
Red wines and we have only one, uh, white one white wine, really?
I'm going to let you take the lead. So whatever you think that we'll enjoy we'll taste okay?
So I keep
All right guys we are about to begin our wine tasting and some sampling of matera
traditional foods does not get any better than this at il
residence and winery
Wow
I have been wanting to eat these are they hot spicy? No, they are
Only dry dry and they have oil. Okay, okay
it's a
Typical food of material really? Yes
I love that sound
It smells delicious wow
It's very very fragrant. Very deep. This is going to be a strong red my kind of full-bodied bread
It just hits my tongue perfectly
and anna can do a much better job explaining the wines that I can but um,
It's it's very fragrant. It has a
Almost like a blackberry
Flavor to it a fruity. Yes a little fuji flavor
little uh
yeah, well, I wish no, but
It's fabulous and what is the name of this?
2013 radino. Wow, the wine here is fabulous. It is a
2013 archi diakonata
Which i've done my best to pronounce and it is here a home wine from il palazzotto
residence in winery from the vineyard in basilicata
And again, that's a region here in italy and we're going to have this paired with two
traditional
Foods in basilicata and that is the tarale which I love
And then the pepperoncin
o
Which is a local specialty again here in basilicata in matera, and they are
The it looks like dried fried or roasted looks like they're roasted in a little oil
And they're the chili peppers
Super spicy to the nose
So imagine taking a your crushed red pepper seeds imagine twisting off the cap of your
Crushed red pepper seeds that you put on pizza or pour on something
And that is exactly what this smells like
Hopefully, I don't burp myself
It's very good
Slightly salty literally just slightly salty. Um smoky
Peppery
It's really interesting and yes i've never had this before
It's really really good
the pepper
is dried
And it has uh, probably roasted in oil and then dried or sun-dried and it's delicious
Very good sure
And we need to talk about the tarali because these are some of the most delicious tarari i've ever had totally homemade
And I want you to see this
I love how unique this tarali is because it actually has whole fennel seeds in it
Which is truly unusual and you can tell it's homemade by looking at how beautiful and airy
Dried the inside is it's not something that popped right out of the bag
But it's something that's gonna pop right into my mouth
