The art of Italian traditional wines: Salice Salentino
“The ways of taste from Salento to third countries: USA, VIETNAM, SOUTH KOREA, THAILAND, PHILIPPINES”, is a campaign financed by the European Union in order to promote the high quality of the Salice Salentino around the world.
- (1888PressRelease) December 19, 2018 - As part of this program, the Consortium has been and will be developing a lot of promotional activities in USA.
Salice Salentino Denomination of Origen owns its name to a town located in the province of Lecce, in the Salento area, located in the Italian region of Puglia.
The first traces of the Salice Salentino date back to the first decades of the twentieth century when local farmers began to experiment with new combinations of the grape varieties. Indeed, it was by blending the Negroamaro grape with the Malvasia Nera one that the first Salice Salentino red wine was produced. It was soon followed by the rosé version.
Over the years, local producers have continued to experiment with other products and created new varieties of Salice Salentino, which now include: the red, rosé and white Salice Salentino wines; Negroamaro; Negroamaro Rosato (rosé wine); Pinot Bianco (white wine); Fiano; Chardonnay; and Aleatico.
For many years, the entire process of production of Salice Salentino from grape growing to the end product, must take place in a specific area. It includes the districts of Salice Salentino, Veglie and Guagnano, in the province of Lecce, and Sandonaci, in the province of Brindisi, as well as some portions of the districts of Cellino San Marco (Lecce) and Campi Salentina (Brindisi).
One of the singularities of the Salice Salentino wines is that for each of them, specific grapes are required.
In particular, the presence of Negroamaro grapes is required in the Salice Salentino Rosso (red) and Rosato (rosé) wines – at least 75%, which rises to 90% in the Salice Salentino Neogroamaro and Negroamaro Rosato varieties. In the Salice Salentino Aleatico wine, the presence of Aleatico grapes is required – at least 85%, which can be blended with Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera or local Primitivo. The Salice Salentino Bianco is made 70 per cent from Chardonnay grapes, if it does not have any other appellation. Finally, the other types of Salice Salentino Bianco – Chardonnay, Fiano and Pinot Bianco – must contain at least 85 per cent of the corresponding grapes.
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