the new underground cellar that enhances the Ostuni DOC • Food and Wine Italia

It took 10 years to finish the contemporary and underground cellar of Amalberga, a Puglia job born in 2014 from the enthusiasm of Dario De Pascale together with the complicity of good friends and partners Roberto Fracassetti and Roberto Candia. With the contribution of oenologists Valentino Ciarla and Gloria Battista, the business was established with the goal of relaunching and boosting the Ostuni DOC, acknowledged for the very first time in 1972, 2 years before the far more well-known Manduria denomination.

” After ten years, we more than happy and happy that our job has actually lastly discovered its home – states Dario De Pascale – we have actually produced a location available to all where they can immerse themselves in the regional riches and customs. We wish to discover and boost the Ostuni DOC and its native ranges through the advancement of red wine tourist activities that totally interact our land and our white wines”.

The brand-new Amalberga winery was developed to “conceal” and relate to the normal landscape that identifies the Itria Valley, abundant in trulli and centuries-old olive trees: a sustainable structure with a modern style that, with its 2 underground floorings, makes use of the continuous temperature levels of the subsoil for the improvement and maturation of white wines, conserving and maintaining the area from the extreme usage of a/c. “The winery is developed with an eye to the future and sustainability– describes De Pascale– appreciating the soil and going for energy performance and a zero-loss water balance by gathering all rainwater in big tanks and recycling that utilized in the numerous activities”.

Visitors are invited on the ground flooring, immersed in an outside garden of over 6 thousand square meters where there are 2 various locations: Ama Chilometro No meant for personal occasions and Ama Dopolavoro, an ancient Saracen trullo brought back and transformed into a lovely red wine bar, where you can consume the business’s white wines and taste veggies, greens and other normal items of the Ostuni location. “With the Amalberga job – includes the creator – we are devoted to developing an environment of the neighborhood and for the neighborhood: an open and inclusive location, where originalities and synergies in between the business, individuals and the surrounding location can be born”.

The winery has actually likewise thought about 3 various experiences to be performed within the estate. Orto e Vino is the trip in which individuals can fulfill on the lands of the Vallegna farming business, to taste the business’s items to accompany the Stùne Ostuni Bianco Doc or Stùne Ottavianello Ostuni Rosso Doc, amongst the most representative white wines of Amalberga. Less “philosophical” and more technical is the Cantina Ipogea experience, an assisted trip within the production locations of the winery with a last tasting at Ama Dopolavoro. The 3rd and last activity is the perfect option for those who are uncertain: Esperienza Completa blends Orto e Vino and Cantina Ipogea, with a course that permits you to value every subtlety of the Apulian job.