Our vineyards are located just a few miles north of Lecce, in the Salento Peninsula. Surrounded on three sides by the sea, it is the southernmost tip of Puglia, a tongue of land between the Adriatic and Ionian seas. The Mediterranean climate is known for its sun and for the regular sea breezes, which waft through the vineyards and help to keep the vines healthy.
The soils are predominantly clay-calcareous, reddish terre rosse and rocky, mineral-rich soils, contributing to the personality of our wines. We believe that wine must be made, first and foremost in the vineyard and we pay particular attention to traditional agricultural practices, aimed at respecting the environment, and capable of producing healthy grapes.
Life here flows in contact with nature among vineyards and centuries-old olive groves with patches of native holm-oak (leccio). We grow only native varietals. No chemicals are used (fertilizers, pesticides, additives. The vineyards are dry farmed and the grapes are harvested by hand.
The winemaker, Piero Serio, is a native of the town and the third generation of the family to make wine. Negroamaro is the local king varietal, a native grape with a tight, compact cluster; the grapes exudes spicy Mediterranean scrub and liquorice root. The Negroamaro vines are trained in either the traditional alberello, or low bush style, or to a low vertical-trellis.
Fermentation happens spontaneously thanks to indigenous yeasts that are naturally present on the skin of the grapes; it takes place in concrete tanks, the wine then rest in large traditional oak barrels in our cellar. No winemaking additives are used and the wines are certified as Organic in the EU.
