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Polpo alla pignata on stoneware bowl with Bay Leaf, Garlic, Octopus

Polpo alla pignata

Polpo alla Pignata is a Salento octopus stew, slow-cooked in terracotta with tomato, onion, olives and bay until the flesh gives way under a spoon. The dish belongs to the Puglian seaside table, where the pignata concentrates the sauce and lends a faint earthy note. A chilled Salice Salentino rosato or a fresh Verdeca-based white keeps the tomato and brine in line without flattening the octopus.

Perfect grape varieties

Negroamaro

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Verdeca Fiano Primitivo Bombino Nero

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BasilicataIGT BrindisiDOC Castel del Monte Bombino NeroDOCG CopertinoDOC Fiano di AvellinoDOCG

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