Galatina

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The bedrock of the territory consists of a succession of limestone, dolomitic limestone, and dolomite layers and benches, more than 6,000 m thick, deposited on the seafloor during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
• On the floor of the lagoon that formed between the islands that remained above sea level, calcarenites (tufa), clays, and sands were deposited, filling the tectonic depressions (grabens) and giving the peninsula its current tabular morphology.
• The soils found in the area are those typical of red earths (Alfisols), generally shallow with lithic contact within 50 cm of the surface (Lithic Rhodoxeralfs) or ranging from moderately deep to very deep (Typic Rhodoxeralfs).
• Calcium carbonate is often absent because the red earths are a product of decalcification, with medium to high cation exchange capacity and low to barely moderate fertility.
• The climate is characterised by wide temperature ranges, with hot summers and mild winters, and mean annual rainfall varying from 400 to 1,200 mm, concentrated approximately 65% in the autumn–winter period.

• The earliest detailed accounts of the wines of Galatina organised according to a scientific framework date back to the Statistical Survey of the Kingdom of Naples commissioned by Gioacchino Murat in 1811.
• Aglianico, Aleatico, Fiano, Verdeca, Greco, Primitivo, and Negroamaro are the most renowned grape varieties of the area, alongside other white- and red-berried varieties often known only by local names.
• New plantings and replantings must provide for a minimum of 3,500 vines per hectare, and all forcing practices are prohibited. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

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-A0548