Apulia

Apulia's native red grapes include Primitivo, Negroamaro, Nero di Troia and Susumaniello. They are used for fruit-filled rosatos and rich, velvety reds. Puglia IGP whites are fruity on the nose, dry and savoury on the palate, while its reds are intensely coloured, fruity, complex and harmonious.

Around Castel del Monte, Bombino Nero is made as rosé. Gioia del Colle, on the Murgia plateau, is associated with Primitivo. Tarantino IGP covers Taranto province and permits sparkling, passito, red-grape novello and late-harvest wines from overripe grapes. Primitivo di Manduria produces wines described as high in alcohol, warm, broad and persistent, with noble tannins. In central Salento, the Negroamaro lands sit between the Ionian and Adriatic Seas, with clay soils, mild winters, hot dry summers and cooler night breezes.

Producer profiles

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• Cantina Sociale Cooperativa di Copertino SCASalento cooperative founded 1935, producing Negroamaro Copertino DOC Riserva and Aldieri Primitivo from clay-limestone vineyards around Copertino.
• Cantina Sociale CopertinoA ninety-year cooperative in the Salento heel of Puglia, building its range entirely on Negroamaro: a stainless-steel-aged DOC red and a pale sparkling white from the same dark-skinned grape.
• Cantine CoppiPuglian estate farming 200 hectares of indigenous varieties between the Bari hills and Salento, with a flagship Primitivo vinified by carbonic maceration and aged in Slavonian oak.
• Cantine Due PalmeA 1,000-grower cooperative in Cellino San Marco, Puglia, founded in 1989 by Angelo Maci. Selvarossa, its Negroamaro-based Salice Salentino Riserva, won Gambero Rosso's Tre Bicchieri for the 2019 vintage.
• Cantine Paolo LeoFamily estate in San Donaci, Salento, building its range on Primitivo and Negroamaro with a cellar signature in vine-dried appassimento Primitivo.
• Cantine PriovanoLombard négociant and bottler sourcing from thirteen Italian regions, founded in 1910 by Antonio and Costantino Pirovano as Pirovano Antonio e F.lli, under BRCGS and IFS certification.
• Cantine Sgarzi LuigiA fourth-generation family estate farming 140 hectares of Salento vineyards in Puglia and 40 organic hectares in Abruzzo, producing both a competition-winning Primitivo Susumaniello blend and more than 45 million cans of wine annually.
• Cantine TagaroCantine Tagaro is a family-run Puglia winery where three generations of winemaking meet Michele Lorusso’s modern, dynamic direction.
• Casa MarzoniOrganic appassimento wines from Puglia, made from indigenous southern Italian varieties by a Veneto partnership with nearly a century behind it. Grapes dry on the vine before fermentation, concentrating everything.
• Casa VinironiaItalian wine label founded in 2012, selecting from producers across multiple Italian regions. Best known for Appassimento Grande Edizione, a late-harvest southern Italian blend of Negroamaro, Merlot, Primitivo and Malvasia Nera.
• Femar ViniFemar Vini is a Rome-registered wine company, founded by Felice Mergè in 1995, that sources Primitivo, Negroamaro, Fiano, Nero d'Avola, and Montepulciano from Puglia, Sicily, and Abruzzo. Its Epicuro range and Gran Appasso appassimento red are its most widely exported bottles.
• L’ArchetipoL’Archetipo presents organic Salento wines, including Verdeca Sette Lune, a white shaped by extended skin maceration and lengthy lees aging.