Foggia Wine Tour

Description

Sixty thousand hectares in extension: Cerignola is among the cities in Italy with the widest agricultural land, here, amid history and traditions, agriculture turns into passion. The territory hosts valuable winemakers' entities: family heritages, like ours, that blend the flavors of past genuineness with the charm of technological modernity, to obtain an unparalleled product: the nectar of Cerignola. A farmhouse in the Apulian countryside, not far from the sea. A dry stone wall separates the cellar from the vineyard and surrounds the citrus garden; on the pines, the wise owls watch over the master pruners, while the fox waits for the grapes to ripen. The cellar is not large, but there is enough space for a dream: to produce a great wine. Four are the grape varieties we have chosen: nero di Troia, fiano, primitivo, and minutolo. The wines I obtain are savory and full-bodied. Technology is kept to a minimum, and thanks to the solar panels, the farmhouse produces more oxygen than it consumes. I use wooden barrels moderately and steel to cool when summer gets too hot.