Daunia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The soils of the area comprise clay or clay-loam sediments, dark grey to blackish in colour, at least one metre deep, resting on beds of marly clay or blue clay.
• These soils are rich in partly swelling silt or clay, with a moderate supply of nutrients and high water-holding capacity but low infiltration rate, making them soils of medium productive capacity.
• Sandy-loam, sandy-clay and sandy-siliceous soils also occur in alternation, but the most widespread type derives from Mesozoic limestones, which make up almost the entirety of the Gargano promontory and the BAT province.
• From a topographical standpoint, the area is divided between a hint of mountain terrain in the north-west of the Daunia on the border with Molise and a substantial expanse of plain roughened by a hilly zone formed by the compact plateau of the Murge.
• The climate is markedly Mediterranean — warm and dry, with mild winters, short springs, long hot summers and mild, rainy autumns; August is generally the hottest month and January the coldest.

• In 1850, in Capitanata, the Pavoncelli and La Rochefocauld families planted approximately 60 hectares of Nero di Troia trained as low bush vines (alberello), reaching some 2,500 hectares under cultivation within a few years.
• During the Middle Ages, viticulture disappeared from agricultural Daunia.

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 PGI-IT-A0599