Cilento

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The Campano-Lucano Apennines are formed by a stack of thrust sheets emplaced during the Miocene and Pliocene tectonic phases that shaped the southern Apennine chain.
• The southern Apennine chain is composed of thrust sheets emplaced essentially during the Miocene, reaching a total thickness on the order of fifteen thousand metres.
• The soils are constitutionally poor, clay-based, rich in marly skeleton and schists, and lacking in organic matter.
• The Cilento is drained by a small number of hydrographic basins, including the Alento, the Lambro, the Mingardo, the Solofrone, the Testene, the Fiumarella, and the Bussento flowing toward the Tyrrhenian Sea, as well as the Calore, the Sammaro, and the Tanagro flowing toward the Sele.
• To the east of the southern Apennine chain lies the Bradanic foredeep, affected only by orogenic phases in the Plio-Quaternary, and beyond it the Murgian foreland, which has undergone vertical deformations of epeirogenic type.

• The grape varieties cultivated in the Cilento descend from those introduced in ancient times by Greek colonisers who arrived from the Peloponnese at the sites of Elea and Paestum.
• Traditional vine-training methods, such as the high and low Avellinese, the canocchia, and the alberello, have been progressively replaced by modern systems such as Guyot and the spur-trained cordon.

• The relief of the territory and the aspect of the vineyards in well-suited zones favour a well-ventilated and luminous environment, conducive to the vegetative and productive functions of the vine.

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-A0243
• Official trade body site — Consorzio di Tutela Vita Salernum Vites