Salento
The Typical Geographical Indication Salento can be used for the production of white, rosé and red wines.
Salento is one of the most interesting and suitable areas of southern Italy for viticulture. The Mediterranean climate, hot and windy, mitigated by the sea breezes and soils of calcareous-clayey matrix, have proved ideal especially for the cultivation of red berry vines.
Salento IGT wines must be produced with grapes of vines suitable for cultivation in the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto and registered in the national register of vine varieties for wine grapes. The specification also provides for the possibility of indicating the name of the grape on the label, if the wine is made with at least 85% of the grapes mentioned. The most cultivated vines are: negroamaro, aleatico, white d'Alessano, white impigno, black malvasia of Lecce, black malvasia of Brindisi, wild muscatello, primitivo, susumaniello.