Barletta

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The production area is predominantly flat, with vineyard elevations ranging from sea level to 250 metres above sea level.
• From a structural standpoint, the soils are calcareous-clayey in character, of medium to loose texture, sufficiently and variably deep, and of good fertility.
• The climate of the zone is typically Mediterranean, with mild temperatures in both winter and summer, owing in part to the proximity of the coastal area.
• Over the past sixty years, the lowest absolute minimum temperature recorded was approximately −5.9 °C in January 1993, while the highest absolute maximum reached +45.6 °C in July 2007.
• Mean annual rainfall is around 600 millimetres, distributed over an average of 70 days, with a peak in autumn and a minimum in summer.

• Uva di Troia was the raw material for the production of a wine known throughout Europe as 'the wine of Barletta', because the considerable quantities produced in the Barletta hinterland were concentrated there to be shipped by rail or by sea.
• The traditional training system was the one already practised by the peoples of Asia Minor and Greece, called by the Romans 'humilis sine adminculo' and more widely known as 'alberello pugliese', with a one-metre-by-one-metre spacing and pruning to two spurs carrying two buds each.
• The first scientific description of Uva di Troia was published in 1882 by the 'Rivista di viticoltura ed enologia'.
• The Rosso Barletta DOC was recognised by Presidential Decree of 1 June 1977, published in Official Gazette no. 274 of 12 October 1977.

• Barletta rosso displays a garnet ruby colour tending to take on orange hues with ageing, with a broad and well-pronounced vinous bouquet of ripe red-berry fruits and a dry, sapid, full-bodied, and harmonious palate.
• Barletta bianco shows a more or less intense straw yellow colour, a delicate, fruity, and characteristically aromatic nose, and a dry, harmonious palate; the rosato has a more or less intense pink colour, a vinous and well-balanced fruity nose, and a dry, harmonious palate.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0542
• Official trade body site — Consorzio per la Tutela del Vino DOC Barletta