Apollonio Casa Vinicola
(Winery in Salento)

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About Winery and Wines

Great passions are often sparked by little seeds. The history of Apollonio winery dates back to 1870, in the aftermath of the Italian unification. It was in the south of the Salento region – where most people made a living out of wine – that the story of Apollonio’s family began; such has succeeded in exporting Salento’s high-quality wine tradition all over the world thanks to its passion and hard work.

In the warm and generous Salento region, Apollonio’s sun-kissed vineyards give their sweet, must-scented fruits according to the rhythm of nature, marked by lunar cycles. In the wine cellar located at the winery in Monteroni, red grapes – once gathered and selected – are fermented at a controlled temperature in Slavonian oak vats. Traditional wines are usually aged for 6 to 12 months; large reserve wines, tapered for 24 to 72 months. Later, the wines are bottled without being filtrated, chilled or pasteurized. It takes time for these wines to become unique, recognizable, unmistakable: before putting them on the market, the bottled wines are aged further in 220-litre oak barrels for 6-12 months, in order to provide better micro-oxygenation. Apollonio’s winery caters to every single step of wine production, from grape gathering to winemaking, ageing and bottling. Its technology includes automatic presses for soft pressing, and different types of winemaking machines. Fermentation is carried out in steel tanks at a controlled temperature. Steel or large oak casks are used for ageing the wine, while barriques are used for special wine types. Only guaranteed natural corks from Sardinia and Portugal are used for bottling. The winery is equipped with a new innovative bottling line, which has a production capacity of about 8,000 bottles per hour.

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