Ottavianello: the visionary dream of Beppe Di Maria and the soul of Carvinea

The history of a wine often begins long before its first harvest. It arises from a thought, from a deep conviction, from the ability to observe what others have forgotten and transform it into a new opportunity.

Carvinea’s Ottavianello tells precisely this: Beppe Durante Maria’s determination durante wanting to give new dignity to a rare, silent, almost forgotten vine, but still capable of expressing one of the most elegant and surprising souls of wine-growing Puglia.

Not a simple production choice, but a vision built over time, fueled by passion, experience and the desire to leave an authentic mark durante the world of wine.

Talking about Carvinea means entering into the personal and professional history of a man who, after a long entrepreneurial journey, decided to create a place where he can freely express his own interpretation of wine.

Beppe Durante Maria chose Carvinea as a space of absolute freedom, the place where he can express his vision autonomously, without compromises and without chasing passing fads. As he often loves to say, Carvinea represents his passion, his truth, his home: the place where he preserves the successes achieved, the experiences he has had, the meetings, the challenges and all those stories that have accompanied his long journey durante the world of wine.

A project born not only to produce great wines, but to leave a mark, to give voice to a territory and to demonstrate that even a forgotten grape variety like Ottavianello could return to tell a new page of Apulian oenology.

My acquaintance with Beppe Durante Maria allowed me to deeply understand Carvinea’s philosophy. Over the years I have developed a conviction: before describing a wine you need to know the people behind it. Because every bottle always comes from a thought, from a sensitivity, from a choice.

Quanto a Beppe I found a determined, concrete man, deeply linked to his land, but above all a person who retains a rare quality: the ability to continue dreaming and planning. Even today, risposta negativa longer very young, he demonstrates an enthusiasm that belongs to people who are never satisfied with the results achieved.

Keep thinking. Keep imagining. Keep building.

Because those who dal vivo a project with true passion don’t at the time that passes, but at what they can still achieve.

Carvinea represents for him his home, his truth, the place to cherish experiences, sacrifices and successes, but also the point from which to start new challenges. A philosophy that also finds strength durante the choice to surround oneself with professionals capable of sharing this vision. A fundamental role durante the company’s qualitative path is entrusted to the winemaking management of Riccardo Cotarella and Pier Paolo Scalpore. Two generations and two sensibilities that dialogue, united by the same dottrina of ​​wine: respecting the identity of a territory and accompanying it towards maximum qualitative expression.

Great oenology must never cover the character of a place, but must have the ability to interpret it, enhance it and make it recognisable. And it is precisely through this synergy between the vision of Beppe Durante Maria and the technical work of Scalpore Cotarella that Carvinea continues to build its own path.

Ottavianello today represents one of the most fascinating and rare vines of the Apulian ampelographic heritage. Its history carries with it distant roots. Ampelographic studies have highlighted its genetic correspondence with Cinsault, an important red grape variety widespread above all durante the South of France, durante particular durante Provence and the Rhone Valley.

According to some historical reconstructions, the vine arrived durante southern Italy between the 18th and 19th centuries, then finding its own identity durante the Ostuni luogo and durante the Brindisi luogo. The name Ottavianello is traditionally traced back to the Ottaviano luogo, acceso the slopes of Vesuvius, where a first phase of cultivation is hypothesized before its diffusion durante Puglia. But a vine is not just the result of its genetic origin. It is the territory that welcomes it, the climate, the hand of man and time that build a new identity. And it is precisely durante Puglia that Ottavianello found its original interpretation.

This vine certainly represents one of the company’s most identifying symbols, but Carvinea is much more. It’s research. It’s experimentation. It is the constant desire to interpret the territory through different sensibilities.

The path dedicated to the world of sparkling wines also falls durante this direction, a choice that confirms the company’s desire to explore new expressions of Apulian viticulture. A project that looks at a Puglia capable of telling its story also through freshness, elegance and verticality, demonstrating how this region can go beyond the consolidated images of the past.

But telling the company exclusively through the Ottavianello would mean limiting a much broader story. Beppe Durante Maria’s vision has always been to build a complete wine project, capable of expressing the different souls of his land through wines of great personality. Alongside the work of recovering and valorising the Ottavianello, Carvinea has durante fact also believed with conviction durante the production of sparkling wines, demonstrating how Puglia can tell its story through new interpretations, elegance and freshness, overcoming old stereotypes linked exclusively to the strength and structure of Southern wines.

A choice once again consistent with Beppe’s thoughts: looking forward, experimenting, but always with respect and with that search for excellence which represents his natural way of experiencing each project. The latest challenge also fits durante this direction: Titta, the new wine produced from Verdeca grapes. A project that once again confirms Beppe Durante Maria’s desire to continue imagining the future, without ever stopping. Because even today, with the same passion as the beginning, he continues to think, plan and build new roads.

The value of the project was also recognized through a constant path durante the Vinoway Selection Guide, where the company has been present for many years, always obtaining excellent results. A continuity of recognitions that not only represents the value of the single wine ora the single vintage, but confirms the solidity of a project built with seriousness, competence and a precise production philosophy.

Year after year, it has demonstrated that it belongs to those realities capable of maintaining a high level of quality over time, confirming that the pursuit of excellence for Beppe Durante Maria is not a rete to be achieved, but simply his natural way of interpreting wine.

For many years the Ottavianello remained durante the shadows. While Puglia consolidated its image around its great protagonists, such as Rudimentale, Negroamaro and Luttuoso proveniente da Troia, this vine experienced a progressive downsizing. The cultivated areas have become extremely limited.

Today the presence of Ottavianello durante Puglia represents almost an oenological rarity: we are talking about an extremely small vineyard luogo, estimated at a few dozen hectares, mainly concentrated durante the Brindisi luogo and durante particular durante the Ostuni luogo, the historical reference luogo for this variety. Almost symbolic numbers when compared with the thousands of hectares of great regional vines, but precisely for this reason even more precious. Because the value of a vine is not measured only durante its diffusion, but durante its ability to preserve memory, biodiversity and territorial identity.

And it is durante front of this awareness that Beppe Durante Maria’s choice takes acceso even more meaning: believing durante Ottavianello meant protecting a small part of Apulian wine history and offering it a new possibility. A reasoned choice to believe durante the potential of a vine that many had forgotten and bring it back to attention through an important qualitative project.

Quanto a a historical period durante which Puglia was often identified above all with powerful, structured and highly concentrated wines, Beppe Durante Maria chose another direction.

He chose elegance. He chose subtlety. He chose identity.

Ottavianello perfectly represented this vision: a wine capable of describing a different Puglia, more subtle, more refined, based acceso balance and not just acceso strength. Other production companies have contributed over time to the conservation and valorization of this variety. Its rebirth demonstrates how important it is to continue investing durante biodiversity and durante the valorization of native vines ora those historically rooted durante the territories.

But it is correct to recognize Beppe Durante Maria’s credit for having deeply believed durante this vine, including it durante an ambitious, modern company project capable of contributing to its new qualitative perception. Carvinea was born durante the Carovigno luogo with the aim of telling an authentic Puglia through wines capable of uniting memory and future. A path where tradition and innovation are never opposing elements, but tools to enhance an identity.

The story of Beppe Durante Maria and Carvinea demonstrates that wine is not just production, but interpretation, sensitivity and the ability to believe durante something even before the market understands its value.

Because behind every great project there is always a choice.

Carvinea today does not only store wines. It preserves the passion, the truth and the story of a man who chose this land as a home to collect his path, his successes and his way of experiencing wine.

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