Lizzano

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The climate of the production area is Mediterranean in character, with fairly mild winters averaging a minimum temperature of 6–7 °C and hot summers averaging a maximum temperature of 25–26 °C.
• Rainfall in the zone is approximately 650 mm per year, concentrated mainly in the winter period.
• In the western part of the production area, deep loam-clay soils predominate, becoming sandier and shallower moving toward the coastal zone, limiting root penetration.
• The appellation territory is essentially flat and notably homogeneous from a climatic standpoint, and as a result the production rules set no specific requirements regarding the aspect or slope of the vineyards.
• Land use across the entire appellation territory is mosaic in character, with vineyards alternating with arable land and scattered olive groves.

• The introduction of viticultural practices in the Taranto area is probably attributable to the Spartan colonists who founded the Greek city, and viticulture most likely played an important role in the small and medium-sized farms of the chora during the fifth to third centuries BC.
• From the eighteenth century onward, the masseria system — an expression of large feudal landownership, whether secular or ecclesiastical — stood in contrast to that of the simple vineyard tied to small peasant holdings.

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-A0551