The winery is the passion of two tenacious brothers adding to the family's agricultural tradition dating back three generations.
Amedeo and Damiano, in love with Salento where they grew up, share that typical Italian appreciation of good things made with care, and it is from here that the have produced wines of exceptional quality, tied of course to the territory, but with a modern style for today's taste.
Nine wines, including a Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Rosato and Malvasia Nera - Chardonnay, Susumaniello Rosato, Negroamaro and Primitivo, Vigneti Reale are our chosen winery to produce our NUMERO 02 Salice Salentino obtained from a blend of 80% Negroamaro and 20% Malvasia Nera aged in French oak barriques.
The Reale family has been involved in the world of wine since the beginning of the last century, and even the company logo is a further link with tradition: it depicts the family villa, dating back to the early twentieth century and surrounded by a classically designed Italian garden.
Traditionally, the farm sold the wine or grapes to third parties rather than the finished product in bottles, a practice typical in this part of Italy before the potential of the wines they could produce themselves was finally realised. For decades the main buyers were Tuscan and French traders looking for a way to strengthen their wine which lacked the body and alcohol content that was abundant in the vineyards of southern Italy. Gradually an awareness of the great qualitative and commercial potential of Salento viticulture came to the fore, and on the threshold of the 21st century, Vigneti Reale's diversified their farming activities to producing quality wines from field to bottle focused on the highest standards both on the plant and in the cellar, and putting quality before quantity.
The Reale farm is located in the municipality of Cellino San Marco, between the provinces of Brindisi and Lecce. The vineyards extend over a flat area of 180 hectares only 20km from the Ionian sea to the west and 10km from the Adriatic Sea to the east providing fresh sea winds that, at night, fly over the Salento peninsula to regulate the heat of the day time temperature.
The soil is a reddish sandy-silt mix typical of the Salento peninsula, originating in the upper Quaternary, with a medium-high permeability, slightly or medium calcareous. Great care is taken over the selection of the rootstock, based on the characteristics of the soil and the affinity with the plants, and the vines are trained using the 'espalier' type to produce grapes of the highest quality.
The winery is a just a few hundred meters from the farm which means that the grape is taken straight from the vine to production, further enhancing the natural characteristics captured from the plant, and is equipped with all the modern technologies to produce clean and elegant wines, especially the control of low temperatures in all stages of the winemaking.
NUMERO 02
Vignete Reale are our chosen producer for our NUMERO 02 Salice Salento; a remarkable ‘Riserva’ wine made from blending Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera grapes (80%-20%) from vineyards in the municipality of Cellino San Marco, Salice DOP. Deep ruby red, with orange sparkles that have a propensity to increase with age. Black and red fruits, liquorice, spice and tobacco. Extremely full bodied, powerful and lush with pulpy velvety tannins and good structure and acidity. Careful vinification has created this exquisite example of this style of wine that is excellent with red grilled meat, mushrooms and seasoned cheeses.
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