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Negroamaro Journey
Guided tour of the Cellino San Marco cellar with a tasting focused on the cooperative's Negroamaro range, paired with a Salento aperitif of local charcuterie, cheese and mozzarella.
Book this experienceCantine Due Palme
Apulia, ItalyCantine Due Palme is a cooperative winery in Cellino San Marco, in the alto Salento corner of Puglia, founded in 1989 by oenologist Angelo Maci. Today more than 1,200 grower members and 2,200 hectares of vineyards across 15 Salento communes feed a single 35,000 sq m winemaking site, with Negroamaro, Primitivo and Susumaniello at the heart of production.
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Apulia
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Wines from Cantine Due Palme
Experiences at Cantine Due Palme
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Colours of the Negroamaro
Shorter cellar tour and tasting flight built around the different expressions of Negroamaro produced from members' vineyards across Salento, with light Salento accompaniments.
Book this experienceIndigenous Heritage
Extended tasting tour across Cantine Due Palme's full native-variety lineup, including Primitivo, Susumaniello, Malvasia Nera and Fiano, paired with a generous Salento aperitif and an in-cellar walk-through of the cooperative's traditional alberello vineyards.
Book this experienceNegroamaro Journey
Guided tour of the Cellino San Marco cellar with a tasting focused on the cooperative's Negroamaro range, paired with a Salento aperitif of local charcuterie, cheese and mozzarella.
Book this experienceAbout Cantine Due Palme
The cooperative was started in 1989 by Angelo Maci, a third-generation vignaiolo from Cellino San Marco, around a simple bet: pool the work of small Salento growers to lift the entire territory rather than only a single cellar. Two earlier producers eventually folded in: the historic Cantina Sociale Riforma Fondiaria of Cellino San Marco, founded in 1955, and the Cantina Sociale Angelini of San Pietro Vernotico. The result is one of southern Italy's largest grower-owned wineries, and one of Puglia's most visible quality references abroad.
Grapes come from a roughly triangular section of Salento that takes in the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto, including Salice Salentino, Squinzano, Cellino San Marco, San Donaci, Mesagne, Guagnano and Novoli. Members work around 2,200 hectares, ninety per cent planted to red varieties. Negroamaro, Primitivo, Susumaniello, Aleatico, Malvasia Nera, Fiano and Moscato lead the native side, with Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Pinot Bianco, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc filling out the rest. Yields sit between 70 and 80 quintali per hectare, deliberately modest for the volume of land involved.
Vinification happens at a single 35,000 sq m cellar in Cellino San Marco, with cold-handling equipment and 300,000 hectolitres of storage capacity. Top reds, especially the Salice Salentino DOC Riserva Selvarossa, finish in 225-litre barriques of French Allier and Tronçais oak and Slavonian oak, with tonneaux for the longest-aged cuvées. The winery operates under organic certification (Bioagricert programme, certificate CE_1600_05487_22) and the Equalitas SOPS sustainability standard, alongside ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and ISO 22005 traceability.
Range and territory matter equally here. From the home Brindisi DOP rossi made under the Camarda label, through Salento IGP Negroamaro and Susumaniello (Canonico, Serre), into Primitivo di Manduria DOP riservas (Sangaetano) and the Salice Salentino DOP riserva flagships (Selvarossa, Selvarossa Fondatore, Selvarossa Terra), the lineup is a working map of southern Puglia's appellation network. In 2010 Maci and the cooperative co-founded the Accademia dell'Alberello Pugliese to defend traditional bush-vine training, the system that still defines the oldest Salento parcels.
Visits to the production cellar in Cellino San Marco run by appointment, with four bookable tasting tours priced from 20 to 40 euro per person; a separate 19th-century estate, Villa Neviera, hosts longer hospitality formats. Wine is exported to roughly 40 countries, but on the ground the project still reads as it started: a Salento-first cooperative, run by an oenologist, anchored to Negroamaro and the Brindisi-Lecce-Taranto triangle.
Visiting Cantine Due Palme
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Tastings
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Tours
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Accommodation
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Plan your visit
Via S. Marco, 130, 72020 Cellino San Marco, Brindisi (Puglia)
Plate I · APULIA
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What Cantine Due Palme makes
Cantine Due Palme's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Primitivo.
Key grapes
Common questions
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Cantine Due Palme is in Cellino San Marco, in the province of Brindisi, in the alto Salento area of Puglia. The production cellar is at Via San Marco 130; visits enter from the company parking on Contrada Rafi.
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