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Locorotondo DOC The Trulli Valley's Verdeca White, Crisp Since 1969
The round town's white: Locorotondo DOC, recognised in 1969 among Puglia's first, blends Verdeca with Bianco d'Alessano on the karst plateau of the Itria valley. Grown between trulli and dry-stone walls, it is pale, brisk and quietly saline, the valley's answer to its own burrata.
Decode the label
What the label tells you
One word on the front changes the ageing, the strength and the price.
On the label
Bianco
The valley staple
11% minimum alcohol
50-65% Verdeca by law
Steel-raised and bottled early; drink the newest vintage.
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On the label
Spumante
The piazza pour
Sparkling from the same blend
The co-op's summer-evening staple.
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The boundary
Where it is
Everything on this page, the estates, the bottles, the sub-zones, sits inside this line.
Estate 1
Tagaro
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Denomination
Grapes Used
Locorotondo DOC zone
Estates you can visit Wine route
The zone is the karst saddle of the Itria valley: the whole communes of Locorotondo and Cisternino with a slice of Fasano, split between Bari and Brindisi provinces. Vineyards share the plateau with trulli and dry-stone walls at around 400 metres, high ground by Puglian standards, which is the whole secret of the wine's freshness.
Inside the zone
1969
one of Puglia's first DOCs
3
communes: Locorotondo, Cisternino, part of Fasano
~400 m
the plateau's altitude, rare for Puglia
11%
minimum alcohol
Click or tap a pin for its estate. The numbered pins match the estate cards below.
Towns worth knowing
Locorotondo
Cisternino
Fasano
The 1932 co-op on Locorotondo's main road is the walk-in cellar door.
In the glass
What it tastes like
Green Apple
Lemon
Almond
Acacia
The disciplinare
The rules that define it
The same table on every denomination page, straight from the production rules.
Grape & its role
Share of the blend
050100%
Solid means the rules demand it. Striped means optional, up to that amount. The words on the right say the same rule.
A fixed marriage Verdeca 50 to 65 percent, Bianco d'Alessano 35 to 50: the ratio is written into the law.
1969 vintage law among Puglia's first DOCs, decades before the region's reds were fashionable.
Altitude does the work the karst plateau sits around 400 metres, cooling the nights that keep the acidity.
Ageing and alcohol minimums per tier are in the label guide above.
Cellar doors · inside the zone
Estates you can visit
One estate inside the zone opens its doors today. A small list, honestly kept: only working cellars with confirmed visits appear here.
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Vintage provenance
Why there is no vintage chart
No vintage chart is published for Locorotondo: the wine is made to drink within two years and quality tracks the producer, not the season.
What to check instead
The producer: quality here is tracked estate by estate rather than year by year.
On the table
What to eat with Locorotondo
The home country leads; global pairings that genuinely work follow.
In-depth guide
Locorotondo, answered
Verdeca at 50 to 65 percent with Bianco d'Alessano at 35 to 50, plus small traditional additions of aromatic Fiano Minutolo. The blend is fixed by the 1969 disciplinare.
Pale straw, green apple and lemon over a saline, faintly bitter-almond finish: light-bodied, brisk and built for the valley's burrata and raw seafood rather than for contemplation.
From locus rotundus, the round place: the historic centre is a near-perfect circle of whitewashed lanes on a hill above the vineyards, ringed by the cummerse-roofed houses the town is known for.
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