Wineries

Vinicola Savese

The devotion to tradition of vintners is an important thing for the Pichierri family. The company’s history is linked to the great paternal figure of Pichierri Gaetano, a farmer from birth, who grew fertile vineyards of Primitivo; later he deepened his knowledge as a winemaker in the wine cellars of the Sava area, that at the beginning of the twentieth century were known throughout the national territory, also thanks to its winemakers, Don Amerigo Mancini and Guido Cal.



Immediately after war, the Pichierri family, still led by the paternal figure, Gaetano, began on its own the production in the winery of chosen wines, leaving to their children Cosimo, Vittorio, Roberto and Aldo the task of continuing the great tradition of the family.



In the 70s, they started bottling, to disseminate in the best way the wine productions of Sava.



The continuous quality improvement of Primitivo in the dry and natural sweet types is the key word for the Pichierri winery, this has allowed the high quality reached, a modest export to the United States, Canada, Sweden and Germany. Today, with so much pride the Pichierri family continue their work of artisans of wine, this is the designation they prefer, in a constant and rigorous way, improve the quality of the wines produced at the winery, in order to make even the most superfine palates enjoy the good nectar of the lands of Sava.

Alberto Longo

The Winery is located in Lucera, in a farming estate of the eighteent century that Alberto Longo has chosen as seat of his company and restructured with the aim of producing wines of quality and of offering a qualified and professional welcome.

Handwritten registers preserved in the company show that once here stood the ancient wine cellar, active from 1906 until the mid–sixties, owned by the Cavalli family, an important family of Lucera. In those that were once used as corn pits, now there are high–tech equipments, able to control and manage every stage of production, from fermentation to bottling. Striking is the barrel room, where controlled light, temperature and humidity, ensure wines optimal conditions for fining.

Outside, the enchanting landscape of the castle of Lucera and the rows of Falanghina, Montepulciano, Bombino Bianco and Nero di Troia, tell with renewed value the story of these extraordinary territories.
An oak of the thirteenth century, cataloged among the centuries–old trees by the WWF, overlooks the winery and the vineyard with its majestic branches.

Petrera Pasquale

Our passion, experience and tradition have met those of the Orfino family, through the marriage of Rosa Orfino and Filippo Petrera (fourth generation) and in 1988 appears, in the small cellar dug into the rock, the first bottle of the 1987 vintage marked Fatalone.



The corporate brand originates from Filippo Petrera (second generation), son of Nicola, who was at the time dubbed “Il Fatalone”. Quickly became the nickname of the family, “Fatalone”, in local parlance, means “seducer” or “one who can boast an irresistible charm on women”, a bit like the legendary Don Giovanni. Filippo Petrera lived until he was 98 years old, between Bacchus and Venus, having breakfast every morning even to his last day with half a liter of fresh milk and half a liter of Primitivo wine.



In 1987, at the beginning as bottlers, we were the first to launch the challenge of vinifying and bottling Primitivo grapes in single–variety. In 1993 also Greco came, for the desire to test ourselves with this noble white grape variety.



In 2000, our vocation for the promotion and development of the area led us to create the Consortium for the Protection and Promotion of the Gioia del Colle DOC wines.



Ours is a small family–run farm, always strictly devoted to the practice of organic farming as a lifestyle, not as a form of business trend, with respect for nature and for all living beings, first and foremost for ourselves. As a guarantee of our activity, since 2000 we have placed ourselves under the control of the Ethical and Environmental Certification Institution, which certifies our organic production, even according to the American standards of the N.O.P. (National Organic Program).

Alberto Longo

The Winery is located in Lucera, in a farming estate of the eighteent century that Alberto Longo has chosen as seat of his company and restructured with the aim of producing wines of quality and of offering a qualified and professional welcome.

Handwritten registers preserved in the company show that once here stood the ancient wine cellar, active from 1906 until the mid–sixties, owned by the Cavalli family, an important family of Lucera. In those that were once used as corn pits, now there are high–tech equipments, able to control and manage every stage of production, from fermentation to bottling. Striking is the barrel room, where controlled light, temperature and humidity, ensure wines optimal conditions for fining.

Outside, the enchanting landscape of the castle of Lucera and the rows of Falanghina, Montepulciano, Bombino Bianco and Nero di Troia, tell with renewed value the story of these extraordinary territories.
An oak of the thirteenth century, cataloged among the centuries–old trees by the WWF, overlooks the winery and the vineyard with its majestic branches.

Profumi Pugliesi

Soloperto

La Casa del Primitivo

La Casa del Primitivo was founded in 1999 and is entirely family–run, with the desire to devote exclusively to small secular vineyards received as a legacy of family.

Over a few years, thanks to their entrepreneurial spirit, the children of Mrs. Michelina understand that a similar product can not remain something relegated only to the surrounding areas, and therefore, with willpower, sacrifice and an eye toward the evolution of the company, give life to La Casa del Primitivo, making it take in a short time a good commercial importance.

Delvino

Vini San Barbato

The Bitetto family has been working from time immemorial in the wine industry, strictly following the teachings of the tradition. Today, the company merges in itself ancient knowledge with the modernity of technology, and offers as a result high quality wines that best express the characteristics of a territory that has always been dedicated to the cultivation of the vine and the production of fine wine.

Zullo Vini

The Zullo family has been producing distinctive wines of the territory since its inception, and has transmitted the ancient knowledge and traditions generation after generation. Today, the love of the land and wine remains unchanged, and Tenuta Viglione blends in itself technology and tradition in order to produce fine wines expression of the territory.

Tenuta Partemio

The enhancement of the oenological vocation of the company began in the early years of the twentieth century and currently it has 180 hectares of vineyard that cover a surfeace of more than 700 hectares, in which olive trees, land for pasture and beautiful Mediterranean scrub areas alternate, safeguarded by environmental protection.

Produttori Vini Manduria

The company was founded with the aim to protect and enhance the production of Primitivo di Manduria, following the ancient tradition of the area.