Italian wines Puglia

Puglia grew vines and produced wines already two thousand years before Christus, thanks most of all to the conformation of the territory, naturally suited to agriculture.

Unfortunately, with the fall of the Roman Empire all the activities of land growing were abandoned, viticulture among them, to recover only in the seventeenth century, to be abruptly interrupted in the nineteenth century when phylloxera came.

Farmers recovered their cultivations planting extended vineyards and producing slightly acidic but alcoholic wines, of low quality, produced for the Northern Italy and foreign markets.

Nowadays, the extension of Puglia places it among the major producing regions: there are new cultivations, modern means, advanced technologies and a new winegrowers' mentality that allows a production oriented to quality.

Starting from San Severo, where grapes of Central Italy such as Sangiovese, Montepulciano and Trebbiano are vinified, we reach Orta Nuove, Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera and Trani with its delicious Moscato. The most famous Castel del Monte follows, a land of great rosé and red wines from Uva di Troia and Aglianico. Then, we continue with Locorotondo, Martina Franca and Gioia del Colle to the most prestigious of the areas: Salento, land of Primitivo - particularly precious the one of Manduria -, without forgetting the best red wines ever produced in the region, starting from the Brindisi denomination, with Negroamaro grapes.