Copertino

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• A calcareous-dolomitic bedrock often exceeding 6,000 m in thickness, deposited on the seafloor during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
• In tectonic depressions (graben), calcarenites ("tufi"), clays, and sands were deposited, giving the Salentine Peninsula its current tabular morphology.
• "Terra rossa" soils (Alfisols): thin Lithic Rhodoxeralfs (<50 cm) or Typic Rhodoxeralfs ranging from moderately deep to very deep, clay-loam in texture, dark red in color.
• Terra rossa soils free of calcium carbonate (a product of decalcification), low fertility, clay-loam texture with fine subangular blocky structure and abundant porosity.

• Decalcified terra rossa soils (Alfisols) overlying a Jurassic–Cretaceous calcareous-dolomitic bedrock and calcarenite ("tufi") deposits: low fertility steers the vine toward quality.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0547