Salice Salentino

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The geological substrate of the area is a Cretaceous carbonate basement, gently folded and offset by faults, upon which Tertiary and Quaternary sediments lie in transgression.
• Five dated geological formations are found in the area, listed from oldest to most recent: Calcari di Altamura, Pietra Leccese and Calcareniti di Andrano, Calcareniti di Gravina, Argille Subappennine, and Depositi Marini Terrazzati.
• In the hinterland of Salento, where the Salice Salentino DOC zone falls, soils are most often deep and clay-calcareous in character.
• These notably deep soils, rich in organic matter and low in calcium carbonate, are very well suited to viticulture, particularly for vines grafted onto American rootstocks.

• The appellation traces its origins to historic producers who were already making red and rosé wines based on Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera from the 1930s onwards, with official recognition granted in 1976.
• The vineyard is traditionally trained in the Apulian bush-vine style (alberello pugliese), with a planting density of 1.60–1.80 m between rows and 1.00–1.10 m within the row, a form that is today declining in favour of the trellis-trained espalier system.

• The characteristics of these deep, organically rich soils of the Salento hinterland mean that even in drier vintages optimal conditions for vine development are created, yielding a wine of quality.

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-A0567
• Official trade body site — Consorzio di Tutela Vini DOP Salice Salentino