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“SanGaetano” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2021
Ripe fruit-scented Primitivo di Manduria whose fruit is perfectly matched to the dose of wood and whose dense flavour ends with pleasant cocoa notes. SUPERIORE.DE
"A fruity primitivo with berries, dried fruit and hints of walnuts. Full-bodied, layered and attractive, if a little obvious, but shows a lot of fruit. Some chocolate at the finish." James Suckling
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Total extract: 33,85 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,30 g/l
- Residual sugar: 9,78 g/l
- Sulfite: 144 mg/l
- pH value: 3,68
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2025+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Serre” Susumaniello del Salento IGP 2021
Intense, violet ruby red, explosive bouquet with notes of dark red fruits, toasty aromas and a slight hint of graphite. Densely packed on the palate with a wonderful balance between ripe fruit and mineral solidity. SUPERIORE.DE
"A wine with some balance, showing blackberries, black olives and some lemon peel. Medium body. Good freshness." James Suckling
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Susumaniello
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 6 months barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Total extract: 42,55 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,25 g/l
- Residual sugar: 8,55 g/l
- Sulfite: 95 mg/l
- pH value: 3,60
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2026+
- Food recommendations: ripe cheeses, game dishes
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Selvarossa” Salice Salentino Riserva DOP 2019
For over 30 years, Selvarossa has been the top wine of Cantine Due Palme: deep red, sweet tobacco and fruit aromas on the nose, intense and generous on the palate with flavours of dark berries, plums and chocolate, cuddly and fresh at the same time, lots of density and bite also in the finish. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Varieties: 90% Negroamaro, 10% Malvasia Nera
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 9 months barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
- Total extract: 44,25 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,05 g/l
- Residual sugar: 9,85 g/l
- Sulfite: 109 mg/l
- pH value: 3,68
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2032+
- Food recommendations: game, dark meat, mature cheese
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“1943 del Presidente” Rosso Salento DOC 2019
The grapes for "del Presidente" are sourced from historic Apulian Alberello vineyards in the Cellino San Marco region, planted in 1968 and personally tended by President Angelo Maci. The carefully selected Primitivo and Aglianico grapes are harvested by hand in crates. Part of the grapes is dried in the well-ventilated drying room, and the high concentration of juice inside the grapes gives it extra body and excellent structure. This exceptional wine, whose labels are numbered, matures for 9 months in new barriques and is further refined before release in the bottle.
Deep, elegant wine with an intense red colour with violet reflections. The bouquet is complex and of great finesse, almost explosively revealing notes of roasted coffee, ripe cherries and plums, combined with woody vanilla notes. The palate is harmonious and velvety, with delicate tannins, full-bodied and with the typical characteristics of grapes dried in the appassimento process. SUPERIORE.DE
"A ripe red with dried berries, orange peel and some herbs. Medium body and medium, round tannins. Nice combo of dried fruit and citrus." James Suckling
read more- Grape Variety: Primitivo, Aglianico
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 9 months barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Total extract: 40,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,15 g/l
- Residual sugar: 9,55 g/l
- Sulfite: 106 mg/l
- pH value: 3,64
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage potential: 2033+
- Food recommendations: chamois with polenta, roast lamb in potato and herb crust
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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The Cantine Due Palme is a successful example of the fact that prejudices against large cooperatives are often wrong. Because the Cantine Due Palme is large. And incredibly successful. Worldwide. This is a man's "fault". Angelo Maci. A scion of a small winemaking family in Salento recognized the problems of the winegrowers in Puglia at the end of the 1980s. Instead of quality, quantity was produced and delivered mainly as cask wine at rock-bottom prices to better known wine regions as blended wine. But Angelo Maci began to convince small winegrowers to do better, to join the cooperative and gradually increase quality, investing in modern cellar technology and sustainable cultivation.
Over the decades, 15 members have grown to over 1,000, who nurture and care for the best grapes according to the strict quality guidelines of the agronomists and then deliver them to the Cantine Due Palme, where a team of experienced oenologists can apply the appropriate cellar technology to the individual sites and selected grapes to produce high-quality and authentic wines.
"To cultivate a good vineyard, you must first cultivate the person who works it. Wine exists only because there are people who cultivate the soil and look after the grapes every day," says long-term president Maci. But his visions and quite risky investments went much further. Because he was aware that you have to sell the wines. And at prices that are moderate, but which also secure the income of all members and create scope for new investments. These ideas and measures were so successful that other cooperatives joined Due Palme, such as the then much better known Cantine Riforma Fondiaria in Celline and Monteroni Arnesano or Angelini in San Pietro Vernotico and Cantina San Gaetano in Lizzano. Today they all sail under one flag. With a successful sales team they export to over 40 countries around the globe.
Today, the grapes come from over 2,500 hectares of cultivated land. The land between the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea has long been a third sea, one of vines. Many companies outside the cooperative society still produce average mass goods for the discounters here. Due to the size that Cantine Due Palme has reached, one is in the comfortable situation to select and employ qualified personnel. Today the team of agronomists advises the members, among other things, on which soils the suitable grape varieties should be cultivated.
These soils are sandy, loamy and interspersed with clay, but in many places they are only a relatively thin layer on calcareous rocky ridges. Due to the constant sea breezes from both sides of the often only 50 km wide cultivation area, the grapes always remain healthy and hardly any chemical intervention is required. The hot daytime temperatures alternate with cool, windy nights, which makes fruit and good acidity structure possible. We pay close attention to all these influences and select the grapes from the best locations.
For some years now, Cantine Due Palme has also been using almost extinct, autochthonous grape varieties such as Susumaniello and Nero di Troja. In addition, there are of course the draught horses Primitivo and Negroamaro next to Malvasia Nera, Aglianico, Syrah and the white varieties Fiano, Falanghina, Vermentino, Malvasia, Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio. SUPERIORE.DE
"Cantine Due Palme ... is a good example that with good work and clear ideas a cooperative winery can become a safe haven for many small winegrowers."Gambero Rosso 2014
Facts
- Year of foundation: 1989
- President: Angelo Maci
- Oenologist: Nicola Scarano
- Annual production: approx. 12,000,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 2,500 hectares | approx. 1.000 members
- Conventional cultivation