Chi è
Salento (Farnese) is a winery in Puglia, Italy.
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Terroir
Sava and the Manduria area
The winery is based in Sava, in the heart of Salento and the Primitivo di Manduria production area. Its defining vineyard landscape comprises old, low-trained Primitivo bush vines. Some plants are nearly a century old and remain productive. The oldest selected vines grow in brick-red soils rich in iron and minerals, under intense sunlight and the influence of maritime breezes. These conditions are associated with grapes of high phenolic concentration.
Between Sava and Manduria, warmth and proximity to the Ionian Sea are central influences. Primitivo vineyards include traditional albarello vines more than 30 years old, while particular selections come from low-yielding bush vines exceeding 60 or 70 years of age. Red soils rich in iron oxides overlie calcareous rock in the sites used for the oldest-vine selections.
The Salento Peninsula
Other vineyards occupy warm, dry areas of the Salento Peninsula. Clay-limestone soils retain water and help keep vines cooler during the hottest part of summer, while differences between daytime and nighttime temperatures contribute to balanced ripening. East of Taranto, red clay soils are moderated by breezes from the Ionian Sea.
Negroamaro for Salice Salentino comes from areas near the provinces of Brindisi and Lecce. The climate there is warm and consistently windy, with useful diurnal temperature variation.
Northern Puglia and the Murge
White-wine vineyards around Minervino in the Murge, within the BAT area of Puglia, stand at 40–120 metres above sea level. They have west to southwest exposure and clay-limestone soils with strong sunlight.
Rosé vineyards in northern Puglia stand at 30–120 metres above sea level with southwest exposure. Their predominantly calcareous soils contain abundant stones and rock together with clay.
Vinificazione
The estate selects its fruit with particular attention to old Primitivo bush vines. Some of the selected alberelli are almost a century old, while individual wine selections use low-yielding vines more than 60 or 70 years old.
All grapes are harvested manually, bunch by bunch. The fruit is handled with the objective of delivering healthy, intact bunches to the cellar. Primitivo from the vineyards east of Taranto is picked at the end of August.
Training systems vary by site. The white-wine vineyards at 40–120 metres use espalier training at 4,000–4,500 vines per hectare, while the northern Puglia rosé vineyards use pergola training at 1,800–2,000 vines per hectare.
Healthy, intact hand-harvested grapes are delivered to the cellar, where the oenology team supervises both vinification and maturation. The production objective is to retain the character associated with ripe Mediterranean fruit, old vines, intense sunlight, red soils and maritime influence.
The available production description does not define one universal cellar protocol for the entire portfolio. Individual wines employ different approaches, including temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel and maturation in steel, French or American oak, or cement, but these are wine-specific rather than a single estate-wide method.
Filosofia
Vigneti del Salento presents careful fruit selection as the starting point for quality, placing particular emphasis on old Primitivo bush vines and grapes harvested bunch by bunch. Its stated aim is to translate healthy, concentrated fruit into wines with a distinctly Mediterranean character.
Its identity is summarized through three elements of Salento wine culture: sun, sea and passion. The approach connects intense solar exposure and maritime breezes with attentive vineyard work, manual harvesting and close supervision of vinification and maturation.