Gioia del Colle

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The soils are clayey or clay-loam with a high proportion of coarse skeletal material, reaching approximately 60% of total constituents.
• The pedology of the soil displays the classic terra rossa derived from the dissolution of calcareous rocks, composed of insoluble residues of iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides.
• The vine-growing areas lie between 200 and 450 metres above sea level, with an altitudinal range of 250 metres and gentle slopes oriented predominantly to the south-east.
• The climate is hot and arid, with rainfall that varies considerably from year to year, ranging between 400 mm and 800 mm, concentrated approximately 70% in the autumn-winter period.
• During the vine's vegetative period, from April to September, rainfall is very modest, averaging around 300 mm, with summers that are sometimes entirely rainless.

• According to a 1919 publication by Prof. G. Musci, the abbot Francesco Filippo Indellicati carried out a form of clonal selection of Primitivo at Gioia del Colle, probably in 1799, naming it 'Primaticcia o Primativo' from the Latin 'primativus', in reference to its early ripening.
• The training systems traditionally used in the zone are the Alberello, the Controspalliera, and the Tendone, with short pruning for the Alberello and mixed pruning for the Controspalliera.

• The colour of Gioia del Colle wine ranges from ruby to garnet, with a pleasant vinous nose and a dry, harmonious, and appropriately tannic palate. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• The karst soils — mineral-rich, low in organic matter, and not excessively water-retentive — impart to the wines a pronounced minerality underpinned by good acidity.

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-A0549
• Official trade body site — Consorzio di Tutela Vini DOC Gioia del Colle