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Cantine Due Palme is a cooperative winery in Cellino San Marco, in Salento, the heel of Italy's boot. Angelo Maci, a third-generation grower, founded it in 1989 so that small growers could rise together. More than 1,200 of them own it today. Between them they farm around 3,000 football pitches of certified organic vines across 15 villages, nearly all red. Negroamaro, Primitivo and Susumaniello lead the way, with the Selvarossa Salice Salentino Riserva at the top of the range.
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The winery was founded in 1989 by Angelo Maci, a third-generation winegrower from Cellino San Marco. His idea was simple: pool the work of hundreds of small growers, and the whole area rises together. Two older village cellars later joined: the 1955 cooperative of Cellino San Marco and its neighbour in San Pietro Vernotico. Today Due Palme is one of the largest grower-owned wineries in southern Italy.
The grapes come from 15 villages across Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto. Salice Salentino and Squinzano, two famous wine towns, are on the list. So are San Donaci, Mesagne, Guagnano and Novoli. Nine vines in ten are red. Negroamaro, Primitivo and Susumaniello lead, and Fiano and Moscato cover the whites. There are smaller plots of Chardonnay, Merlot, Sangiovese, Pinot Bianco and Sauvignon Blanc. Every grape is pressed at one winery in Cellino San Marco, a single site of 35,000 square metres. Its cellar can hold the same as 40 million bottles.
Yields are kept low on purpose, even at this size. The top reds, led by the Selvarossa Salice Salentino Riserva, finish in barriques of French and Slavonian oak. The vines are certified organic through Bioagricert. The whole business also follows Equalitas, a standard that checks how a winery treats the land and its people.
The range is a map of southern Puglia. Camarda covers the home Brindisi DOP. Canonico and Serre carry Salento IGP, and Sangaetano is the Primitivo di Manduria. The Selvarossa family sits at the top, and the wines now sell in around 40 countries. In 2010 Maci and the cooperative helped found an academy to defend Salento's traditional alberello vines, still standing in the region's oldest plots.
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Wine area
The northern Salento DOCs around Brindisi and the northern Lecce border.
Winery
Cellino San Marco, Brindisi · Salice Salentino and Brindisi
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Tasting
A visit that will let you breathe the history of the company through the places and the excellences that distinguish it
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Tasting
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.
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Tasting
Shorter cellar tour and tasting flight built around the different expressions of Negroamaro produced from members' vineyards across Salento, with light Salento accompaniments.
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Tasting & Tour
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.
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