Vinicola Palamà is an estate Lecce province in the Salento region of Puglia. The Palamà Winery has been based in Cutrofiano, in Salento, since 1936. The wines are obtained from native Apulian vines: Negroamaro, Primitivo, Malvasia Nera, Malvasia Bianca and Verdeca. Ninì and his family personally take care of the vineyards, harvesting and vinification.

Owner: Michele Panama. His father Arcangelo built the first cellar.

Pink wines

IGT Salento Rosato, Metiusco: 100% Negroamaro. 90 quintals per hectare. Metiusco rosé is processed with the bleeding technique: once the grapes have been processed, the crushed grapes are subjected to cryomaceration for a period ranging from 15 to 20 hours, at the end of which only the 30% of the must. A temperature-controlled fermentation follows. | 2019 100% Negroamaro (Best rosé,  5-Star 2020).

IGT Salento Rosato, Albarossa: 100% Negroamaro. 90 quintals per hectare. Once the rosé Metiusco has been bled, the crushed grapes left in the tank are moved inside the soft press, where our Albarossa is born. The musts obtained ferment in steel at a controlled temperature.

Red wines

IGT Salento Rosso, Mavro: 2009 90% Negroamaro, 10% Malvasia Nera. | 2013 100% Negroamaro. IGP Salento. 14.5% alcohol. Sappy plum. Like this. Rich, deep, savoury, ripe, wild, depth, sweet juniper fruit, southern and rich, bay leaf. But oak too, coconut. Good. 89 points (Radici del Sud 2015).

Contact

Vinicola Palamà

Via Armando Diaz, 6,

I-73020 Cutrofiano (LE), Italy