Cupertinum Antica Cantina del Salento 1935
In Apulia, in the center of Salento peninsula, halfway between Ionian Sea and Adriatic Sea, there is the territory of Copertino, in this red soil, vines produce strong and generous wines.
In 1935 thirty-six vine-growers founded the Social Winery of Copertino, with the aim of enhancing cooperation, producing directly wine from their grapes and trading autonomously. Today there are 300 proud members who confer their harvest. The area cultivated with vines is about 300 hectares (about 1,000 acres) and vineyards are treated with wisdom, which is the result of tradition and innovation, obtaining excellent wines, which make people enthusiastic.
Cupertinum mainly works with traditional grapes: Negroamaro, enological symbol of Salento, is the main one, as well as Malvasia nera, Primitivo, Malvasia bianca and other varieties acclimatized in these lands. The territory of Copertino DOC is a flat area from 30 to 60 meters above sea level which presents soils with a clayey structure, of different composition, placed over hard limestone or tufaceous. In the cellar, during vinification and refinement, Cupertinum’s goal is to highlight the character of the wine.
In Apulia, in the center of Salento peninsula, halfway between Ionian Sea and Adriatic Sea, there is the territory of Copertino, in this red soil, vines produce strong and generous wines.
In 1935 thirty-six vine-growers founded the Social Winery of Copertino, with the aim of enhancing cooperation, producing directly wine from their grapes and trading autonomously. Today there are 300 proud members who confer their harvest. The area cultivated with vines is about 300 hectares (about 1,000 acres) and vineyards are treated with wisdom, which is the result of tradition and innovation, obtaining excellent wines, which make people enthusiastic.
Cupertinum mainly works with traditional grapes: Negroamaro, enological symbol of Salento, is the main one, as well as Malvasia nera, Primitivo, Malvasia bianca and other varieties acclimatized in these lands. The territory of Copertino DOC is a flat area from 30 to 60 meters above sea level which presents soils with a clayey structure, of different composition, placed over hard limestone or tufaceous. In the cellar, during vinification and refinement, Cupertinum’s goal is to highlight the character of the wine.
Our Wines
Giortì
Extra Dry Sparkling Wine
Spinello dei Falconi
Salento IGT Rosè
Copertino
Copertino DOC Red Reserve
Cigliano
Chardonnay Salento IGT White
Primitivo
Salento IGT Red
Settantacinque
Copertino DOC Red Reserve
Prizes and awards
Cupertinum’s wines are the expression of the typicality of the territory and are characterized by the excellent relation between quality and price
Intense ruby red. Generous, well-focused aromas and flavors of red fruit, tar, licorice and underbrush. Boasts a wonderful acid-fruit-tannin balance, with a long, smooth and fresh finish. A knockout wine, exceptional buy its price
A winery that has restored luster to the cooperative viticulture of Puglia. A repertoire of wines of very rare quality. It is incredible how Cupertinum is able to define its wines: of seductive and passionate beauty, of disarming power that melts every tension. A winery which has the talent of expressing in bottle the most visceral and sublime Mediterranean spirit. An address not to be missed for Negroamaro lovers
Wines of all respect, of beautiful expression of the territory, which have earned an excellent reputation abroad as well
Cupertinum, one of the oldest and largest cooperatives in Salento, gives a brilliant example with its Copertino Riserva: truly delicious”. Negroamaro Salento IGT and Copertino Riserva have been awarded the Silver Medal, Primitivo and Spinello dei Falconi have been awarded the Bronze Medal
High quality of all the wines: wide and well cared range, has as advanced points the labels which decline Negroamaro
Wonderfully perfumed, with exotic spice, this full-bodied red is soft and velvety on the palate, with clear, fine tannins and flavors of ripe cherry and plum, candied orange, violet and graphite. This blend of Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera has been elevated with grace
Copertino Doc Riserva is precise and elegant, sapid and rich in smoothness. Rosé wines are always a winner! The passito Glykòs earned the Corona, the highest recognition
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Historical background
According to the most recent historical studies, in Salento viticulture has been practiced since the 8th century BC, period of the first Greek colonization. During the Roman domination the wines from Terra d’Otranto were appreciated and praised by poets. Even in the Middle Ages the production and trading of wines continued to flourish and in the twelfth century Frederick II encouraged the experimentation and the diffusion of new vines. Most of the produced wine was exported through the Mediterranean ports.
Documents, dated back to 1500, witness historically the excellence of wines from the Copertino area. “This land is surrounded by a very fertile countryside which goes around one mile, and it is surrounded by a very fertile olive grove of many miles, which is then surrounded by vineyards that produce very good bunches of wine, and many pleasant gardens“. This is a sentence from the Descrittione di Cupertino, kept in the General Augustinian Archive in Rome. It is a very important document for the history of the territory of Copertino. The document was written by Fra’ Angelo Rocca, in 1583 during a visit to the Augustinian convents in Southern Italy.
In 1800, detailed information, ordered according to a scientific criterion, about the production of wines produced in Copertino (from these cultivated varieties: Aglianico, Aleatico, Fiano, Verdeca, Greco, Primitivo, Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera, Montepulciano) can be found in the “Statistics of the Kingdom of Naples” ordered by Gioacchino Murat. It can be said, therefore, that Copertino is one of the most ancient wine growing areas of Italy. Copertino’s wine (obtained by Negroamaro, plus in small percentages also black Malvasia and Montepuciano) has obtained the recognition of Denominazione di Origine Controllata on November 2, 1976.
Most of Cupertinum’s wines are based on Negroamaro, the symbolic grape of Salento, and are produced with the Copertino DOC and Salento IGT appellations, in the red and rose styles. The winery also produces a wine with Primitivo grapes and two white wines made of Chardonnay and Malvasia bianca di Lecce, with the appellation Salento Igt. Since 2012 it is being produced Glykòs, with Salento Igt appellation, the first Negromaro passito wine. Also from Negroamaro grapes is produced Giortì, an Extra Dry sparkling wine, and Le Viole grappa.
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