Campi Deantera, Salento according to Mauro Di Maggio

With Campi Deantera Mauro Di Maggio, previous president of the Primitivo di Manduria Consortium, takes control of the household service in a task devoted to drinkability and consistency.

In Between the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea, there is a little piece of land in Salento where the Primitivo di Manduria is cultivated with love and enthusiasm and where the vines grow strong and healthy likewise thanks to the fresh north wind, which dries the lots before of the harvest and focuses the black and purple fruit of this old vineyard with twisted trees, which has its roots in sand, clay and limestone.

In these districts, in Sava in the province of Taranto, the previous president of the Consortium for the Defense of Primitivo di Manduria, Mauro Di Maggio, together with 2 partners enlivened the Campi Deantera job in March 2022. A winery that tries a brand-new technique to the grapes of Salento by taking a makeover at its area, specific that not whatever has actually yet been stated which it is possible to inform the landscape with the concepts, words, aromas and stories of those who, familiar with its roots, can thinking of brand-new horizons, restoring and innovating the thousand-year history that has actually developed the vineyards which offers the red wines of these lands their structure, fragrances and colours.

the landscape surrounding Campi Deantera

A CHISEL WORK They are little and irregular fields, those of Campi Deantera, to be taken care of each in their own method. It is from here that the Primitivo and Negroamaro Salento Igt Deantera, the Primitivi di Manduria Doc “Are” and “Verso Vecchie Vigne” 2020, the Fiano Salento Igt “Are”, the Susumaniello Salento Igt “Stadera”, the Primitivo Salento Igt are born “Spinacave” rosé.

” I have actually been a wine maker for generations– states Mauro Di Maggio– After having actually taken part in the renewal of Apulian red wine in different functions, consisting of CEO of Cantine San Marzano, administrator of San Marzano Vini and CEO of San Marzano U.S.A., along with president of the Consortium of Defense of Primitivo di Manduria Doc, at the end of 2021 I chose to leave San Marzano and the Consortium to discovered my own winery and reclaim the household winery”.

Campi Deantera is at the center of the Primitivo di Manduria DOC and consists of a body of 17 hectares of vineyard on yellow soil, on which white grapes are grown, and a body of around 34 hectares on the Ionian where the Primitivo and other red grapes were planted.

” My partner’s vineyard, on the other hand, has a size of 150 hectares, and is more south, at the crossroads in between the Salento areas which are the cradle of Negroamaro and Susumaniello” describes Di Maggio.

” After several years of Puglia and Salento on the marketplaces, I like the concept of attempting brand-new methods, both in regards to structure of the red wines and in regards to image– mentions the creator of the winery– And this individual belief of mine is enhanced by observation of the pattern of Apulian red wine on the marketplaces. In numerous tactical markets for Puglia, such as Switzerland, our red wines, and Primitivo primarily, have actually developed a classification; Sadly, nevertheless, the standardization of taste and extreme recurring sugariness threat making the last customer addicting and exhausted. From this develops the requirement for us manufacturers to take an advance, and to attempt more traditional and well balanced designs, to sector the production deal”.

” My concept of red wine is connected to drinkability and consistency– concludes Di Maggio– I definitely preserve olfactory tidiness and clearness in my technique, now I am focused on my vineyard, and with the oenologist Nicola Tucci I attempt to make the Apulian red wines, drying them and providing, if we can, higher intricacy and structure”.

TASTING NOTES

Spinacave, Primitivo Salento Igt Rosato 2022 Grapes: 100% primitivo Vinification: maceration of the grapes for a couple of hours, partial illustration off of the needs to and fermentation in white Improvement: brief rest in steel

Strawberry nose and fruity, pulpy taste buds, worth biting into. The surface requires herbaceous feelings.

Stadera, Susumaniello Salento Igt 2021 Grapes: 100% susumaniello Vinification: thermo-controlled maceration and alcoholic fermentation with chosen yeasts for around 10 days Aging: in French and American oak barriques for 6 months

Nose of sweet berries, blackberry, blueberry and feelings of humus. On the taste buds, a soul of freshness supports a round, product and pulpy sip, which fades into memories of black tea.