Cantine Due Palme is a co-operative winery in Puglia. It was established in 1989 in Cellino San Marco, in the province of Brindisi. T he driving force was born Angelo Maci, the third generation of a family of winemakers. Five wineries that have been incorporated into the Due Palme group since 1989: the historic Cantina Sociale Riforma Fondiaria di Cellino San Marco (one of the oldest cooperatives in Puglia established in 1955), the Cantina Società Cooperativa Produttori Agricoli, also from Cellino, the Cantina Sociale Angelini di San Pietro Vernotico (established in 1961), the Cantina San Gaetano di Lizzano (1959), in the province of Taranto, an important winery in the Primitivo Dop area and in 2016 the social cellar of Arnesano Monteroni, also acquiring the Dop Copertino.

Direttore Generale: Aussunta De Cillis.

Size: 2,500 hectares (6,250 acres) of vines and 1,000 members.

Terroir: The vines are in Salento, in the triangle formed by the cities of Brindisi, Taranto and Lecce

Sparkling wines

Blanc de Noir, Negroamaro Spumante: Vinified as a white wine. Charmat method.

Amaluna Spumante Extra Dry: Negroamaro vinified as a white wine. Charmat method.

Melarosa Spumante Rosè Extra Dry: Negroamaro vinified as a white wine. Charmat method

White wines

Salento Bianco, Selvabianco Vermentino: 3m in barrel.

Pink wines

Salento IGP Rosato, Corerosa: Primitivo.

Red wines

Salento IGP Rosso, Muina Syrah: Syrah.

Salento IGP Rosso, Albirizzi

Salento IGP Rosso, Serre Susumaniello: Susumaniello.

Salento IGP Rosso, Don Cosimo: Primitivo. MLF in barrel. 6m in barrel.

Salento IGP Rosso, Seraia, Malvasia Nera: Malvasia Nera.

Salento IGP Rosso, Primitivo, Solemoro: 2019 Lotto 201271. 12.5% alc. Well made, juicy, simple (tasted at home, May 2020).

Priamo Nero di Troia, Puglia IGP: Nero di Troia. 6m in barrel.

Negroamaro Salento, Canonico: Negroamaro.

Squinzano Rosso, DOC, Angelini: 2015 85% Negroamaro, 15% Malvasia Nera. 6m in barrels.

Brindisi Rosso DOC, Camarda: 2015 85% Negroamaro, 15% Malvasia Nera. 6m in barrels.

Salice Salentino Rosso DOP, Montecocco: 2015 85% Negroamaro, 15% Malvasia Nera. 6m in barrels.

Primitivo di Manduria DOC, Sangaetano: Primitivo. MLF in barrel. 85% Negroamaro, 15% Malvasia Nera. 6m in barrels.

Primitivo di Manduria DOC Riserva, Ettamiano: Primitivo.

1943 Salentino Rosso: Primitivo and Aglianico.

Passito wine

Selvarossa, Salice Salentino Rosso Riserva DOP: 2013 85% Negroamaro, 15% Malvasia Nera. ‘Uve appassite’. 9m in barrel.

Selvoro Fiano passito: Fiano. Picked and then dried on ‘graticci’.

Contact

Cantine Due Palme soc. coop. agricola

Via San Marco, 130

72020 Cellino San Marco, Brindisi, Italy

Tel+39 0831.617865 | Website: www.cantineduepalme.wine/it