Cantina Soloperto

The Terroir

Among the elements that give value to a terroir, the most important is undoubtedly the human being who, after centuries of work, has reshaped the rural landscape to his service. Unique in this regard is the presence of Primitivo small trees, a cultivation method that is very rare to find elsewhere and conducted without the use of tutors. It is a difficult and costly method, but the farmer of these lands is an enemy of compromise and shortcuts.

Stones, the Sun, and Men

Manduria is located in the north of Salento, a stone's throw from the Murgia Tarantino plateau and a few kilometers from the beaches of the Ionian Sea, marked by the Saracen lookout towers. The lands on which the Primitivo vines rest are of clay-limestone nature, with the presence of fossils and iron oxides, which give the soil a natural reddish color. The iron present in the soil aids drainage, preventing stagnation after rains, and for this reason, the red lands are among the most suitable for wine production.

Here the winter is mild and the temperature rarely drops below zero. The summer, on the contrary, is often blinding and the thermometer easily exceeds 40°, especially on days when the African sirocco winds blow. Rainfall is low and snow is even rarer and when it does, it does not exceed a few centimeters.

Wine Tourism

The entire Soloperto staff is ready to welcome you at the point of sale where we will have the pleasure of hosting you by inviting you to taste and visit the historic Primitivo winery.

The Museum

The first underground wine vats born in the winery, built of concrete to accompany the fermentation of our wines in the early seventies, have been opened, renovated and connected to host a small museum that tells the story of the company and the territory where it began and lives, to visitors who want to know our reality.

In the small rooms, which once were tanks, are displayed the ancient tools and utensils that our ancestors used in their daily lives. A small route illustrates the different moments in the history of the peasant and craftsman's world of the territory: the house tools such as the ratìcula, the frascèra, the tristièddi, the tools of the trade such as the shoemaker's shape or the carpenter's tools, the tools for agriculture like the plows, the runcatùri and the runcèdda, the zappulitèdda, the tools of the past oenologist like the màlicand, the cellar equipment such as the bàscula, the manual bottler and capper.

Some tanks, on the other hand, host the history of our production: from the Primitivo bottles of 1970, to the first ones after the approval of the specification in 1975, testimony of our presence in the history of the DOP from its birth, up to the reserves for vertical tastings, through the stages of our corporate life and our love for the Primitivo di Manduria.