Apulia / Wine

Since ancient times Puglia has been a great producer of grapes of excellent quality, with a high sugar content, marketed, for the most part and for a long time, in the form of “blending must” to foreign countries and other Italian regions. In recent decades, although the wine-growing areas have been significantly reduced, to the advantage of the production of table grapes or other agricultural crops, the production of Apulian wines is still very consistent in terms of quality and quantity (85,000 hectares in 2012 – 30% of wines table in Italy).

Many of the ancient must producing companies have now turned into efficient producers of high quality labels that are conquering the taste of international markets.

There are over 30 wines that boast the DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) or DOCG (Controlled and Guaranteed Designation of Origin) mark. Here we mention the best known: “Aleatico di Puglia”, “Cacc’e Mmitte” of Lucera, “Castel del Monte”, “Locorotondo”, “Martina Franca”, “Moscato di Trani”, “Negroamaro” of Salento, “Nero of Troia “,” Primitivo di Manduria “,” Salice Salentino “.