Matino

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The basement is composed of a succession of limestone, dolomitic limestone, and dolomite layers and benches, more than 6,000 m thick, deposited on the sea floor during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
• On the floor of the lagoon formed between the islands that remained above water, calcarenites (the so-called 'tufi'), clays, and sands were deposited, filling the tectonic depressions (grabens) and giving the Salento its current tabular morphology.
• The soils found in the area are the typical 'red earths' (Alfisols), generally shallow with a lithic contact within 50 cm of the surface or, alternatively, moderately to very deep.
• Calcium carbonate is often absent because the red earths are a product of decalcification, with low to barely moderate fertility due to insufficient macronutrient content.
• Viticulture is most successfully practised in areas where the soil is sufficiently deep to compensate for water unavailability and summer drought.
• Mean annual rainfall varies with altitude from 400 mm to 1,200 mm, with approximately 65% concentrated in the autumn–winter period, following a typically Mediterranean distribution.

• In November 1899, the Consorzio Agrario Cooperativa di Matino was established by notarial deed, bringing together producers of wine made from the Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera grape varieties. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• On 19 May 1971, by decree of the President of the Republic, the Denominazione d'Origine Controllata for Matino wine was officially recognised. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Aglianico, Aleatico, Fiano, Verdeca, Greco, Primitivo, and Negroamaro are the most renowned grape varieties of the area, alongside numerous other white and red varieties often known only by local names.
• The earliest detailed accounts of Matino wine production organised according to a scientific framework date back to the Statistical Survey of the Kingdom of Naples commissioned by Gioacchino Murat in 1811.

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-A0554