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Only here you find the best rosè wine of Salento.

The best rosé wines of Italy are produced in the southern Ionian area of ​​Salento, where the red earth meets the breeze of the Ionian sea. Here between Gallipoli, Alezio and Tuglie, the Negroamaro gives the best results for the traditional vinification to "Lacrima". The Michele Calò and Figli winery now managed by their sons Giovanni and Fernando is one of the most representative winery for the rosè wines. Is located in Tuglie, very close to the sea and Gallipoli the famous seaside country and produces quality wines using grapes from its vineyards. The main feature of the winery is the traditional cement tanks that were used in the past by all the Salento wineries and which are still used here for vinification instead of stainless steel silos. The wines produced are then refined in the barriques placed in the cellar below. If you visit this historic winery Giovanni the owner will welcome you with great hospitality and will make you taste his wonderful wines such as rosé Mjere and Cerasa and the fantastic Primiter wine from Primitivo grapes.
A wine that you surely must taste is Cerasa. This wine is a great rosé from Negroamaro grapes, which is aged partly in small French oak barrels and partly in stainless steel. It has an intense coral pink color, and an intense bouquet, with a soft, elegant and persistent taste.
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About Winery and Wines

IN THE ANCIENT HEART OF SALENTO, where the ground is generous and red, wine is an important cultural element. For two thousand years grapevines have been cultivated with the planting technique of Apulian 'Alberello' (bush) or " Alberello Pugliese", they only here may give grapes so particular, so unique, to produce wines which communicate fully scents, colours and flavours of the territory. Through the cultivation of the grapevine linked to the enhancing the value of the products of his land, Michele Calò stands out as forerunner of high quality wines in Salento. Now his wines can be sold on great international markets worthy to welcome them. From Tuglie, in all Italy and all over the world. A great rematch taken by that man who left with the Salentine sun in his heart.

Fernando and Giovanni control the various phases of the activities developed with the great passion transmitted by their father. But they work also with an innovative spirit and with the awereness that only undertaking really to do something, gives hoped outcomes, sastisfying also more demanding palates. The modern cultivation of wine requires the recovery and the ennoblement of the old native grapevines. In the winery Calò the historic grapevines as Negroamaro,black Malvasia, Primitivo and Verdeca, are always at the basis of the production. There are strong grapevines for important and elegant wines, able to cause intense emotions. These outcomes require a constant care and a great attention in the grapevine and in the winery in every moment of they year, to give the best, respecting nature and traditions.