Gustoliberrima is one of the best places in Lecce. You can taste true food and wine from Salento and enjoy a nice conversation with other customers about books, art, or anything else, while you browse books from the bookstore. Well worth a stop from your walk through the beautiful historic center of Lecce. read more

Terrible place! Stay away, English speakers!!!! I'm very sensitive to being respectful of other cultures while traveling, especially when I don't speak the native language. We walked in and there is a sign in Italian and English. The English says, "Make your gkass and enjoy". Pretty clear to me and my wife. She pours a glass from one of the open bottles at the tasting station. Immediately the employee yells at her telling her she's wrong and needs to ask for help. When we apologize and ask for help he's extremely rude and nasty. We paid for the glass and left. He asked as we left, "how did you enjoy the wine?". I told him that he made her feel bad and we were leaving because of it. I also said that he needs to get better translation for the signs. "Ask for help" would be a better sign. Stay away from these DBs read more

Lets face it, there is some great wine in Italy. And we found some in Gustoliberrima in Lecce. The employee was helpful and offered some tasting before we ordered many glasses of wine for the group. Enjoyed it so, that we ordered 24 bottles to ship home. He discounted the shipping for the quantity and charged my card. The next day I get an email from him needing 70 more Euros for the shipping because the shipper refuses to ship with out full payment. I call his personal cell and try to make payment. He was not at work and could not help me, please call the store manager. I did, she said there is no record of the sale and if I want the wine to pay 300, euro for shipping. Wait, what? No record but you know how much the shipping would be??? Also that I need to prove I made a purchase. I gave her the Fattura # "invoice #" off the receipt and she conveniently spoke no more English. She then told me I had to email her the receipt and hung up. After multi-able attempts to contact both the store and the employee, no one will speak to me, THEY HANG UP. Capital one was very helpful at this point in guiding me through the long process of cancelling the order and going after my funds. This is still unresolved and i'm waiting. The only bad memory of Italy I have. read more