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Wine color: white, rosé, red
Alcohol content: 11% -12.50% depending on typology
Characteristic of: the entire territory of the municipalities of Novoli and Squinzano (Lecce) and of San Pietro Vernotico and Torchiarolo (Brindisi), part of the territory of the municipalities of Campi Salentina, Lecce, Surbo and Trepuzzi (Lecce), Cellino San Marco (Brindisi)
Grape variety: Chardonnay, Fiano, White Malvasia, Sauvignon for white (80%-90%); Negroamaro (70%-85%) and Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Malvasia Nera di Lecce and Sangiovese (30%) for red and rosé.
Although politics, for about a century, has divided the Terra d’Otranto into three provinces, they were and will remain united forever by the cult of the Negroamaro. A vigorous vine, with an almost always abundant production, from which a garnet-red coloured wine with a pleasant bitterish taste is obtained and which is present in about half of the PDOs in Puglia.
What makes the difference are nature and man. The hard work of the vine-dressers adds a not insignificant touch, and in the cellar varies the percentage of the other vines that make up the PDO. And this is what happens with the Squinzano PDO: Salento and yet different from its neighbors.
The typologies envisaged by the production regulations are:
Squinzano PDO White also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO Red, also Reserve and Nouveau
Squinzano PDO Rosé, also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO Negroamaro, also Reserve
Squinzano PDO Negroamaro Rosé, also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO Susumaniello
Squinzano PDO Chardonnay also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO Fiano, also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO Malvasia Bianca, also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO Sauvignon, also Spumante Charmat Method
Squinzano PDO White expresses its fresh goodness from the production of grapes that are, alone or together, at least 80% Chardonnay and/or Malvasia Bianca.
In the glass it has a pale straw yellow colour with greenish reflections, a distinctive, pleasantly fruity aroma and a dry, velvety, distinctive taste.
Alcohol Content: 11%.
The Squinzano PDO Spumante Charmat Method White has a fine and persistent froth, it shines in the glass with a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity aroma with notes of yeast, a fresh and well balanced taste, from extra brut to extra dry.
Alcohol Content: 11,50%.
Squinzano PDO Red, also Reserve, is produced from Negroamaro grapes (70%) and Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Malvasia Nera di Lecce and Sangiovese (maximum 30%) alone or together. The Reserve requires an aging of at least two years.
In the glass it has a more or less intense ruby red colour, sometimes with orange reflections if aged, an ethereal, characteristic and intense aroma, a full, velvety and well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 12,50%.
The Squinzano PDO Nouveau Red
In the glass it has a more or less intense red colour, a rightly persistent and fruity smell coming from the carbonic maceration, a well balanced and pleasant velvety taste.
Alcohol Content: 12%.
The PDO Squinzano Rosé, also Spumante Charmat Method, is the result of the vinification in rosé of the same grapes used for the red wine, that is at least 70% of Negroamaro and then, alone or together, a maximum of 30% of Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Malvasia Nera di Lecce and Sangiovese.
In the glass it has a colour ranging from light ruby red to pale cherry, a delicately perfumed and characteristic aroma, a sapid, fine and velvety taste.
Alcohol Content: 12%.
Squinzano PDO Negroamaro, also Reserve, is produced with a minimum of 85% of the grapes of the Negroamaro variety. For the Reserve, two years of ageing.
In the glass it has a more or less intense ruby red colour with possible reflections tending towards brick red with ageing, it has a characteristic and intense ethereal aroma, a full, velvety and well balanced taste.
Alcohol content: 12.50% for the Red
Alcohol content: 12.50% for the Reserve.
The PDO Squinzano Negroamaro Rosé comes from the skillful vinification in rosé of the same grapes of the red one and that is with at least 85% of Negroamaro.
In the glass it shows a more or less intense rosé colour, a rightly persistent aroma, fruity if young, a well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 12 %.
Squinzano PDO Negroamaro Spumante Charmat Method Rosé has a fine, persistent froth, a more or less intense rosé colour, a delicate, fruity aroma with notes of yeast and a fresh, well balanced taste, ranging from extra brut to extra dry.
Alcohol Content: 11,50%.
Squinzano PDO Susumaniello is produced with at least 85% of the Susumaniello grape variety from which it takes its name.
In the glass it has a ruby red color, with violet reflections, a scent of berries, a velvety flavor, persistent and well balanced
Alcohol Content: 12%.
Squinzano PDO Chardonnay is based on a minimum of 90% of the grapes of Chardonnay, which grows strongly in the strip between the Ionian and Adriatic Seas.
The wine in the glass has a more or less intense straw yellow colour, an intense and characteristic aroma and a sapid and characteristic taste
Alcohol Content: 11%.
The Squinzano PDO Chardonnay Spumante Charmat Method in the glass has a fine and persistent froth, a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity aroma with pleasant notes of yeast, a fresh and well balanced taste, from extra brut to extra dry.
Alcohol Content: 11,50%.
The Squinzano PDO Fiano privileges the grapes of the mentioned vine and that is the Fiano that must represent at least 90%. The wine in the glass has a more or less intense straw yellow colour, an intense and characteristic aroma and a zesty and characteristic taste.
Alcohol Content: 11%.
Squinzano PDO Fiano Spumante has a fine and persistent froth, a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity aroma with pleasant notes of yeast, a fresh and well balanced, ranging from extra brut to extra dry.
Alcohol Content: 11,50%.
The PDO Squinzano Malvasia Bianca exalts the varietal characteristics of the Malvasia Bianca grapes, which must represent at least 90%.
The wine has an intense straw yellow colour, a pleasant and intense characteristic odour and a characteristic and well balanced taste.
Alcohol Content: 11%.
The Squinzano PDO Malvasia Bianca Spumante Charmat Method has a fine and persistent froth, a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity aroma with fragrant notes of yeast, a fresh and well balanced taste from extra brut to extra dry.
Alcohol Content: 11,50%.
The Squinzano PDO Sauvignon focuses on the grapes of this international variety, which must be at least 90%. The wine has a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a distinctive and intense aroma and a savoury and characteristic taste.
Alcohol Content: 11%.
The Squinzano PDO Sauvignon Spumante Charmat Method has a fine and persistent froth, a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity aroma with pleasant notes of yeast, a fresh and well balanced taste, from extra brut to extra dry.
Alcohol Content: 11,50
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