Salento · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Salento in Italy

The boundary for Salento is not on Vinous yet. It is added by the geography step of the data pipeline.

Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Salento must meet.

18 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Wine from grapes max. %	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Wine min. % alc.	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	Dry extract min. g/l
Salento Bianco	–	26	80	10	10.5	–	4.5	15
Salento Bianco vino da uve stramature	–	26	50	15	15	11	4	22
Salento Bianco Frizzante	–	26	80	–	9.5	–	4.5	15
Salento bianco passito	–	26	50	10	15	11	4	22
Salento Bianco Spumante	–	26	80	–	9.5	–	5	14
Salento Rosso	–	23	80	11.5	12	–	4.5	20
Salento Rosso vino da uve stramature	–	23	50	15	15	11	4	24
Salento Rosso Frizzante	–	23	80	–	9.5	–	4.5	15
Salento Rosso novello	–	23	80	11.5	11	–	5	16
Salento Rosso passito	–	23	50	11.5	15	11	4	24
Salento Rosato	–	23	80	11	11.5	–	4.5	16
Salento Rosato Frizzante	–	23	80	–	9.5	–	4.5	15
Salento Novello Rosato	–	23	80	11	11	–	4	14
Salento Rosato Spumante	–	23	80	–	9.5	–	5	14
Salento varietale bianco	85% named variety (white)	26	80	10	10.5	–	4.5	15
Salento varietale rosso	85% named variety (red)	23	80	11.5	12	–	4.5	20
Salento varietale rosato	85% named variety (rose)	23	80	11	11.5	–	4.5	16
Salento Rosso Primitivo	85% Primitivo	17	80	12	12	–	4.5	20

From the official production rules (disciplinare di produzione). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Salento varietale bianco

≥ 85% named variety (white) · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties suitable for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto · Others allowed

Blend rules

Salento varietale rosso

≥ 85% named variety (red) · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties suitable for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto · Others allowed

Blend rules

Salento varietale rosato

≥ 85% named variety (rose) · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties suitable for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto · Others allowed

Blend rules

Salento Rosso Primitivo

≥ 85% Primitivo · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties suitable for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto · Others allowed

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
Legge 12 dicembre 2016, n. 238 (Testo unico della vite e del vino), Articles 3, 28 and 33 · Repubblica Italiana · Official act
Disciplinare di produzione: Salento · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act

Still to check (3)

Boundary not captured yet (PGIs are not in the Eurac boundary data).
From the specification: Varietal wines ('varietale' products, plus Rosso Primitivo with its own yield and natural alcohol) name one of about 50 listed varieties (Aglianico, Aleatico, Barbera, Bianco di Alessano...) and take the limits of the wine of the same colour; they may be frizzante, spumante (white only), passito, novello (red only), da uve stramature, and rosato from black grapes. Two varieties may be named if together 100%, the lesser above 15%. Yields: 26 t/ha for white-grape types, 23 t/ha for black-grape types (applied to rosés), 17 t/ha for Rosso Primitivo. Frizzante and spumante grapes may have 0.5% vol less natural alcohol. Most types range from dry to abboccato/amabile or sweet, so sweetness is null. Vinification in the production zone or anywhere in Puglia.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.