Salento and its wines, its food and its wonderful landscape

Salento, a land of flavors, bright colors, a land of mysteries and nuances waiting to be discovered.

It never disappoints and opens its artistic, gastronomic and landscape heritage to everyone, as long as they are just curious.

Click on the symbols of the areas and discover the magical lands of Salento wines.

A – Brindisino, B – Manduria, C - Terre del Negroamaro, D – Area Sud Ionica

If we drink with temperance and in small sips the wine oozes into our lungs like the sweetest morning dew.

Socrate (470 a.C./469 a.C. – 399 a.C.)

40°21′00″N - 18°10′12″E

Salento is the heel of Italy or the southernmost area of Puglia. Salento is the ancient Terra d’Otranto, a land famous for its millenary history closely linked to the Mediterranean sea from which it is bathed. It is precisely from the Mediterranean that many peoples have arrived over time who have left their mark on the culture of the Salento people.

A land of contamination where different influences and cultures converge, from the Greeks to the Byzantines, from the Swabians to the Ottomans, from the Angevins to the Bourbons.

Salento is one of the regions in Italy where the winemaking tradition has deep roots, since here quality wine has been produced for 3000 years. Salento, like Puglia, is known today for its excellent wines and its extra virgin olive oil, in addition to its great gastronomic tradition.

The story goes that the cultivation of the grape began here with the Primitivo variety brought to Salento by the Illyrians. While the winemaking techniques were learned by the Greeks and were later improved in the Roman period.

Facts that already in that historical period meant that the Salento was considered the Winery of Italy, while the wines of Salento had great admirers in illustrious characters such as Pliny the Elder and Horace.

A sun-kissed peninsula, with a mild climate in winter and warm in summer, bathed by two seas, the Adriatic Sea to the east and the Ionian Sea to the west. The territory consists of three macro-areas: Manduria, the Brindisi area and the Southern Salento area. All the wines of Salento come from these three great wine-growing areas that have a millenary history, culture and wine tradition.

In each of these three areas, wines of exceptional quality and personality are produced from ancient native vines cultivated with the ancient Apulian sapling technique. Only in our shop you will find the largest selection of Salento wines tasted and selected personally by us.