Puglia Primer

A sip of the major red wine grapes from this sunny southern Italian region

By Alexander Peartree

Known for its white-sand beaches and seemingly endless sunny days, Puglia is the vacationland of Italy. Tourists from around the world flock in droves during peak summer season, basking in the region’s warmth, sipping on local fresh rosatos and enjoying the simple, yet refined, farm- and sea-to-table fare only Puglia can provide. The heel of Italy’s boot is also the country’s agricultural hub, producing the bulk of the wheat, olives, vegetables and fruit that supply the rest of the continent. So it should be no surprise that wine grape production is also within its forte. Second only to Veneto, Puglia is a viticultural powerhouse that produced about a fifth of Italy’s wine in 2020. Quantity and quality often don’t go hand in hand in the wine world, yet a growing number of…

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Wine Enthusiast (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2022

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