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Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto are once again united in the collection of wines with PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) called Salento.
Wine color: white, red, rosé
Alcohol content: from 9.50% up to 15% depending on typology
Characteristic of: the whole provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto
Grape varieties: about 50 varieties both native and international
Wine is capable of reuniting what politics has separated. Salento, from the 13th century onwards to the 1920s, was a single territory in which there was Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto. It is no coincidence, then, that the Protected Geographical Indication called Salento PGI corresponds precisely to the territories of these three provincial capitals Lecce, Taranto and Brindisi.
The wind between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas cradles common traditions such as the popular dance of the pizzica and the tarantella, the fires and the tables laid for St. Joseph’s Day, the vines planted with trees, the trulli, the typical dry stones houses with coned roof, and the dry stone walls, the sandy beaches and the cliffs, up to the Salentine litany of the beautiful dialects of these lands where the sun and the light are inimitable.
The indication on the label of the variety for Salento PGI requires the use of at least 85% of the grapes belonging to the indicated variety.
The typologies envisaged by the production regulations are:
Salento PGI White has a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a pleasing, delicate aroma and a fresh, dry to medium sweet taste.
Alcohol Content: 10,50%.
Salento PGI Sparkling White has a fine, evanescent froth, a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity aroma and a dry to medium sweet, well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 9,50%
Salento PGI Spumante Charmat Method White has a fine and persistent froth, a more or less intense straw yellow colour with possible golden reflections, a fragrant, complex aroma, characteristic of double fermentation, a fresh, sapid, fine, well balanced, medium sweet taste.
Alcohol Content: 9,50%
Salento PGI Overripe Grapes White has a colour ranging from straw yellow to golden, a distinctive, delicate and persistent aroma, at the palate can be from dry to sweet, typical, well balanced.
Total Alcohol: 15%
Salento PGI Raisin wine White has a straw yellow to golden colour, a distinctive, delicate and persistent aroma and a dry to sweet, typical and well balanced taste.
Total Alcohol: 15%
Salento PGI Red has a ruby red to garnet colour, a pleasing, distinctive aroma and a dry to medium dry, well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 12%
Salento PGI Sparkling Red has a fine, evanescent froth, a more or less intense rosé colour, a delicate, fruity aroma and a dry to medium sweet, well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 9,50%
Salento PGI Overripe Grapes Red has a ruby red colour, tending to garnet red with ageing, a characteristic, delicate and persistent aroma, a sweet to dry, typical, well balanced taste.
Total Alcohol: 15%
Salento PGI Raisin wine Red has a ruby red colour, tending to garnet red with ageing, a characteristic, delicate and persistent aroma, a sweet to dry, typical and well balanced taste.
Total Alcohol: 15%
Salento PGI Nouveau Red a more or less intense ruby red colour, an intense, pleasing and distinctive aroma and a dry to sweetish, distinctive taste.
Alcohol Content: 11%
Salento PGI Rosé has a more or less intense rosé colour, a distinctive fruity aroma and a dry to sweet, well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 11,50%
Salento PGI Sparkling Rosé has a fine, evanescent froth, a more or less pale rosé colour, a delicate, fruity aroma and a dry to medium sweet, well balanced, distinctive taste.
Alcohol Content: 9,50%
Salento PGI Spumante Charmat Method Rosé has a fine, persistent froth, a more or less intense rosé colour, a fragrant, complex aroma, characteristic of refermentation, and a fresh, zesty, fine, well balanced to sweet taste
Alcohol Content: 9,50%
Salento PGI Nouveau Rosé has a more or less intense rosé colour, a distinctive fruity aroma and a dry to medium sweet, well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 11%
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