Murgia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Soils over compact Cretaceous limestone (Calcare di Bari and Altamura, ~130 Ma), up to 3,000 m thick, with pronounced karst development.
• Tabular plateau (north-western Murge) at elevations between 350 m and 686 m a.s.l.; karstic water table up to 400 m below sea level.
• Absence of perennial surface watercourses due to karstification; supplemental irrigation sourced from deep artesian aquifers.
• Elevation and constant air movement reduce disease pressure and induce later ripening compared to the more southerly neighbouring zones.

• Vineyards planted on compact Cretaceous limestone (Calcare di Bari and Altamura, ~130 Ma, up to 3,000 m thick) of the north-western Murge.
• Mean altitude above 350 m a.s.l., a pseudo-steppic climate, and persistent winds limit vine diseases and result in late ripening of the grapes.

• Late-ripening grapes shaped by the cool plateau climate yield wines of great finesse and elegance with lower alcohol levels than those from more southerly zones.
• The wines express a pronounced minerality underpinned by firm acidity, a direct reflection of the karstic limestone soils in which the vines are rooted.

• Karstic limestone soils (Cretaceous, ~130 Ma) drive low yields and impart a pronounced minerality sustained by firm acidity to the wines of the north-western Murge.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-IT-A0600