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The Salento Peninsula in Puglia is famous for its rosé wines. Making up the heel of Italy’s boot, the Salento is given over almost entirely to vines and olives. In the extreme south of Italy, summers are hot and winters mild, with plentiful rain. Most of our growers still use the traditional Alberello or Spalliera methods of vine training, which give natural shelter from the hot sun, protecting them from sunburn. Following years of research into the best variety to make rosé style wines, we have chosen Negroamaro, one of Puglia’s greatest red varietals. The Negroamaro grapes are selected from a number of small growers, with whom we have built up excellent relations over many years. Working closely with each grower, it is a joint decision when to pick, which is absolutely crucial to get right in order to make this wonderfully fresh, delicately flavoured rosé, so packed with fruit and character.
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| Grapes | 100% Negroamaro | | Vineyard area | The Negroamaro grapes are selected from low-yielding vineyards on the Salento Peninsula, in a high-quality wine producing area just south of Lecce. | | Harvest | The grapes are picked particularly early in order to retain the optimum level of acidity so vital for this style of wine | | Vinification | The grapes are de-stemmed and soft-crushed. Once the grapes are in the fermenter, we carry out a salasso (removing the juice from the bottom of the fermenter). This gives minimum skin contact, just enough to give the wine its rosé colour, while keeping tannins as low as possible. We initiate the fermentation with selected yeasts at about 18°C for about 10 days. After fermentation is complete, we keep the wine on its fine lees for around 2 months. We do not carry out malolactic fermentation in order to retain acidity and freshness. | | Tasting notes | Canaletto Salento Rosé has a fragrant bouquet of fresh strawberries. A rosé of real character, this wine is deliciously dry, brimming with ripe summer fruit flavours – perfect to sip on its own and brilliant with barbequed prawns or chicken. |
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